Category: CLOSED
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Hina Yakitori
This week’s dinner was at Hina Yakitori. Sadly, we only heard about this place because of articles of it’s impending closure at the end of the month. The chef had mentioned the lack of diners which is not surprising in a very competitive restaurant environment here in SF. The restaurant only seats 10 people and…
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Birch & Rye
Andrea and I were feeling lazy for dinner today, so we decided to eat out in our neighborhood. There are 3 new restaurants that we still haven’t tried, but we decided to go to one of our tried and true restaurants, Birch & Rye, a restaurant with elevated Georgian/Russian cuisine. We started with a couple…
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Suragan
This week’s dinner was at Suragan. As described from their website “SuraGan was the name of the kitchen for the king of Joseon Dynasty in Korea. ‘Sura’ means the king’s meal and ‘Gan’ means a specific space”. This restaurant was recently added to the Michelin guide although they haven’t yet announced which of those receive…
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Marlena
Tonight’s dinner was at Marlena. We last ate here in November 2021 just after they received their Michelin star. My recollection was that it was ok and very under-seasoned (just some salt would have helped), but their prix fixe pricing was very value oriented (back then it was $60/pp if I recall correctly). We’ve obviously…
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Ancora
We’ve been meaning to try this place for a bit ever since they opened in July. Executive chef is Nick Anichini, formerly of Atelier Crenn. Menu primarily features seafood with their main supplier being Water2Table. We went with the Chief’s Tasting Menu at the Chef’s counter with wine pairing. We went with the Chef’s tasting…
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Automat
Wanted to try something new for lunch so decided to go to this new place in NoPa at the former Green Chile location. Owner is former sous chef from Lazy Bear and baker was formerly from Tartine. Andrea had the chop salad and I had the Cheezy Buddy smashed burger and we started an order…
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Manresa
We’ve been meaning to eat here for years, but we were preoccupied eating at so many SF restaurants. But if you want to say you’ve eaten at all of the 3 Michelin star restaurants in the Bay Area, you’ll undoubtedly need to dine here. Menu is a chefs tasting menu, of course, and we did…
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Birch & Rye
We had a small window to see Trisha only because her return flight home was delayed. We did a walk-in to the counter at the newest restaurant in our neighborhood, a contemporary Georgian restaurant. We had to have much of their infused vodka (we went with the horseradish vodka) and of course caviar. We tried…
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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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Le Fantastique
Tonight’s dinner was at Le Fantastique, a new restaurant that opened up a few months ago, with French and Japanese influences. They boast a McIntosh audio system and a turntable to play vinyl which of course interested me. We had an early reservation (which we always prefer) and we were in fact the first diners…