SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This Thing: High-End Southern Thai Tasting Menu at Hed 11 Outside of Thailand, it was rare to find fine-dining-style Thai food a decade ago, let alone menus that explored Thai dishes beyond the comfortable realm of curries, pad Thai, and a few other noodle dishes and salads.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Drink This: Dirty 90s Martini at Starlite What's more 90s than a Grey Goose vodka martini, icily shaken and well seasoned with brine?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This Thing: Rolled Beef Pancake at Taste of Old Street A new Chinese street-food spot has opened in the Richmond, and they specialize in Chengdu-style barbecue skewers, noodle soups, and a particularly delicious rolled and beef-stuffed pancake.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This Thing: Focaccia Di Recco at Union Square's Corzetti Among a flurry of late-summer and early fall openings in SF we have Corzetti, the newest Italian restaurant from Back of the House restaurant group. And one of the stars on the opening menu is a delicious, indulgent, cheese-stuffed flatbread known as focaccia di recco.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This Thing: Every Handroll at Handroll Project It was maybe obvious for fans of Ju-Ni that the new, casual side project of chef Geoffrey Lee and partner Tan Truong in the Mission, Handroll Project, would be an instant winner. And they would be right.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This Thing: The Bulldog Pizza at Sunset Squares Out of the square-pizza trend that swept through San Francisco over the last few years, there have been a number of delicious examples of the form. But one of the newest really stands out for its sheer audacity and deliciousness.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Smoked Game Hen at Dear Inga Dear Inga is a heartfelt love letter to Eastern Europe, and specifically to chef David Golovin's grandmother, and the three-week-old restaurant has already proven itself a welcome addition to the already food-destination-worthy 18th Street corridor.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: All The Dips At Duna As discussed last month, former Bar Tartine kitchen wizards Cortney Burns and Nick Balla spent the last six months nurturing a pop-up Japanese-inspired concept called Motze, utilizing the 983 Valencia Street space formerly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Asparagus Pizza At A Mano While I still haven't tried all the pasta on offer at A Mano, the new Hayes Valley restaurant from Adriano Paganini's Back of the House restaurant group, I can say for sure that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Grilled Calamari With Kimchi At Octavia As we heard a few weeks ago, a new chef de cuisine has taken the helm at Melissa Perello's Pac Heights restaurant Octavia, and that is former Huxley and Mister Jiu's chef Sara
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Alba Ray's Jambalaya Trading the Mission District for the Garden District, NoLa-inspired Alba Ray's is now open in the space built out for Hapa Ramen and most recently occupied by Citizen Fox at 2293 Mission Street.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Duck Sausage Sandwich At Almanac Taproom Save for their signature barrel-aged beers, everything is brand new at Almanac Taproom, which opened just in time for New Year's Eve. The beer label, well known locally and beyond for its "farm
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: 55-Hour Pastrami At Duchess In Rockridge A photo posted by Duchess Oakland (@duchessoakland) on Dec 1, 2016 at 2:24pm PST A new all-day cafe and pub with low-key gourmet food, Duchess opened in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood this month.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Chicken And Egg Rice Porridge At Motze One of my favorite restaurants in the city over the last five years, Bar Tartine, is calling it quits at least in its current incarnation on New Year's Eve. That would be a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Crab Porridge And Smoked And Roasted Duck At The Morris With Dungeness crab dishes proliferating across Bay Area menus this month, I want to call attention to one in particular at the newly open The Morris, where chef Gavin Schmidt (Coi) is also
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Boudin Blanc At Camino Chef Russell Moore has something in his repertoire that has dogged him for years now precisely because it so delicious. It's called boudin blanc, and if you're unfamiliar with this rich and much
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Eat Some Delicious Dungeness Crab As Crab Season Officially Kicks Off You may have missed or forgotten the news because of something or other going on in the world, but Dungeness crab season kicked off Tuesday for commercial fisherman, meaning that fresh, delectable crabs
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: An Ice Cream Cone At Tartine's Cookies And Cream When Tartine Manufactory opened two months back as a larger offshoot of 18th Street's original Tartine, something was missing. That something was ice cream. I mean, we were told there would be ice
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Chicken Liver Toasts At Bluestem Brasserie Now in business five years on Yerba Buena Lane, just off Market Street, Bluestem Brasserie has come through a couple of incarnations already under three different chefs. The latest, chef John Griffiths, came
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: 'Animal Style' Patatas Bravas At Bellota Dining at Bellota a couple weeks back I was treated to a fun off-menu item patatas bravas "animal style" topped with jamon Iberico and chorizo aioli. Eater reminded me of the dish today
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: The Okonomiyaki Waffle At Louie's Gen Gen Room Whoa, guys. The food at the new Liholiho Yacht Club downstairs cocktail outpost, Louie's Gen Gen Room, is seriously goddamn delicious. As I talked about before, the cocktail and food menus for the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Braised Lamb At Mason Pacific Nob Hill bistro Mason Pacific just reopened last week after a four-month closure following an unfortunate fire in March, and now the kitchen is being run by James Beard Award-nominated Max Mackinnon, who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Whole Roasted Fish At Presidio Social Club Over on the inner edge of the Presidio, where it meets the foot of Greenwich Street at Cow Hollow, Presidio Social Club is still going strong, offering a kind of San Francisco version
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Fried Rice And Salt-Baked Trout At Mister Jiu's You wouldn't expect, probably, that one of the standout dishes on an already great menu at Brandon Jew's new Chinatown restaurant would be his take on fried rice. But the simple, homestyle dish
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Nashville Hot Chicken At WesBurger 'n' More At the Mission's newest burger spot, the first brick-and-mortar location for Wes Rowe's longtime burger pop-up WesBurger, burgers are of course front and center on the menu are all well worth trying when
