Category: Michelin
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The Modern
We weren’t sure what we were going to do for dinner, but Andrea said she wanted something nice so who am I to refuse. I was able to score a last minute reservation here at The Modern. There are actually three concepts – the Bar which is more casual, the dining room where we are,
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Momofuku Ko
After watching all of those David Chang tv shows, we had to eat here. Not much comment but a fantastic dining experience. Of course we were the last ones in the restaurant…
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Marea
Tonight’s dinner was at a slightly lower key restaurant. Still 1 Michelin star, but had the benefit of being only a block away from out hotel. Italian cuisine. Cocktails were good but nothing special. Bread (focaccia and a 7-grain) was fine but nothing special. For the oysters, we went with sweet petite from Prince Edward
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Restaurant Daniel
This was one of the many restaurants on my list to try in NYC. We managed to score same day reservation late, which fortunately wasn’t very late for us since we’re still on pacific time zone. We’re not used to coming in on the second seating so there was a bit of a wait before
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Aquavit
Did have anything planned for this evening, but I started looking for something on the ride from the airport. This ended up being a solid choice…. Friday night, 7 pm, two Michelin star, walking distance. Cuisine is Scandinavian inspired. With a 7pm seating we were right in the rush of service and it felt like
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Birch & Rye
This week’s dinner was at the newest restaurant in our neighborhood. We were very happy to see this open up on the previous location for Mahila and Contigo before that. Cocktails were very tasty utilizing vodka infusions. We, of course, went for the caviar service with imported Russian caviar paired with the horseradish infused vodka.
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Cotogna
Spoiler – this was a great meal esp. for the money. This is a sister restaurant to Quince, which is one of our favorite restaurants. It was as difficult to get a reservation here as at Quince. Every time we’ve dined at Quince we’ve always wondered about Cotogna next door which looked great. We finally
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Saison
A belated birthday dinner for my sister. I ate here last month in the salon (I.e. bar), but the full tasting experience at what was the best table in the restaurant (the same when I ate here for the first time years ago) right next to the kitchen:. The entire staff and Liz once again
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San Ho Won
Tonight’s dinner was at a new upscale Korean restaurant. It’s a new collaboration with Corey Lee (Benu is one of our top dining experiences in SF and Monsieur Benjamin was also one of it favorites in Hayes Valley) and Jeong-In Hwang. Reservation was a bit tricky to get (had to book a month to the