Category: Bib Gourmand
The Bib Gourmand is our award for great value, and highlights simple yet skilful cooking at an affordable price. (But we should also say that we are looking for a high standard of cooking just for a restaurant to be recommended in the MICHELIN Guide.)
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Sushi Ran
Andrea had her hair appointment in Corte Madera so it was a good opportunity to run in Marin. I’m not really much in shape these days (took a nearly 4-month hiatus from running due to various illness with associated lung congestion), but getting back into it. It was a beautiful day to run and thanks…
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A16
Dinner with our new friends from Germany who we’re hosting for a few days. We had an excess of food as usual at A16 which is someplace I’ve been meaning to try for a long time.Solid, traditional Italian cuisine. We were seated in the small back patio area. Some Italians dining back there and our…
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Los Cocuyos
We were shopping and sight seeing in the Historic Center which gave us an opportunity to eat at Los Cocuyos, a well known tacqueria that Chef Val at Californios recommended to us when we last ate at Californios a few weeks ago (I think Anthony Bourdain also recommended it). You can but the tacos directly…
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This week’s dinner was at Kiln. The chef and many of the staff had previously worked at Sons & Daughters at which we dined back in March 2019. No doubt the staff made a copy of their customer database since they greeted us in reference to our previous dining there (and I didn’t tell them…
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Izakaya Rintaro
This week’s dinner was a bit more lowkey than our more typical fine dining. This restaurant often appears on a lot of lists so we figured we’d try it again. We’ve eaten here once before for an impromptu dinner since we had been shopping at Rainbow Grocery and did a walk-in seating. I remember it…
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Frances
Tonight’s dinner was at Frances, one of our old haunts. Frances was formerly a Michelin starred restaurant and sister restaurant to Octavia, which we also have enjoyed several times. Both of these restaurants have a format for the tasting menu that provides several small dishes (i.e like tapas) for each course. We really enjoy this…
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Bansang
This week’s dinner was at Bangasng, one of the hot new restaurants in SF per Eater located on the block on Filmore, next door to Avery and just up and across the street from The Progress and State Bird Provisions and The Anchovy Bar. It’s a modern Koreran tapas place. The banchan was only a…
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Frances
Frances was one of our local go to restaurants pre-pandemic and there were periods where we would go monthly. They used to have a prix fixe menu which gave a taste of most of their dishes which was also the same format at their sister restaurant Octavia (which lost its Michelin star through the pandemic…