Category: 1 Star
One MICHELIN Star is awarded to restaurants using top quality ingredients, where dishes with distinct flavours are prepared to a consistently high standard.
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Niku Steakhouse
For a steak geek like me this ended up being a fantastic experience. I am so routinely disappointed with steak at restaurants, since we cook ourselves on the big green egg, that I will rarely ever order steak at a restaurant. Here, we had the best seats in the house IMO where we were front
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Bar Crenn
#32 random Thursday dinner. Fantastic presentation and meticulous presentation with great ingredients, mostly local. Nice lounge atmosphere. The epoisse flambé for dessert was interesting but honestly I’d rather just have straight epoisse. The canele though was actually better than the ones we had in Bordeaux. Heitz was promoting a flight of wines which included their
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Château Cordeillan-Bages
Had to collect some Michelin stars while we’re here. Fantastic meal. We both ordered two different menus so we could try nine different dishes plus wine pairings (champagne for an apertif, two whites from Pauillac, a red from St. Estephe, a Margaux, and a sauterne). Everything I expect… Food, wine, service, location… from a Michelin
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Nico
Thursday dinner at Nico. There are 62 Michelin starred restaurants in the Bay area and this was our halfway point… Number 31 on our current list. I’d actually call this a bargain relative to many of the places at which we’ve dined this year. Food was tasty and very well executed. Wine pairings were interesting
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Al’s Place
Friday night repast. Tasting menu and wine pairing as per usual. +1 star in my Michelin quest. Patio seating was actually better for us since it was too damn loud inside for us old folks. Vegetable forward meal which was great too. Old school rap and hip hop was fantastic.
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Sons & Daughters
It’s Friday night bitches! Ingredients, preparation, service, and interesting wine pairings made for a thoroughly enjoyable meal. Located in the former Cafe Mozart location that I used to go to just because I was such a Mozart fanboy. https://www.sonsanddaughterssf.com
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Louis
Such an interesting and tasty meal for our first in Paris. So many interesting flavors, ingredients, and technique. Contemporary French with Asian influence. Yum!
