Category: Restaurant
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William Frachot
The dinner at William Francot was an enjoyable experience overall with fantastic technique and layered flavors, with some great highlights, but other dishes that were only appreciated, but didn’t live. One of the highlights was their version of oeuf en meurette with the sauce as rich as you could ever hope for. I also thought…
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L’Ecrit’Vin
Went for 2 classic regional dishes – oeufs en meurette, boeuf bourguignon
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Noodle in a Haystack
This week’s dinner was at a small high end ramen restaurant that seats 10-12 people. This was the Spring Extended menu, so dishes change seasonally and the extended menu differs from the weeknight counter menu, but is largely the same as the Friday Sake Pairing Extended menu (which features a couple different dishes and exclusive…
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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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Prik Hom
low-key dinner this week at Prik Hom, a new-ish (opened in Feb) Thai restaurant on Geary in Laurel Heights. Menu has a few choices each for starters, soup, salad, curry, and stir fry. We went with all of our waiter’s recommendations (although we would have happily ordered anything on the menu) – branzino passion fruit…
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Akikos
Enjoyed a delicious omakase lunch with Plamen to celebrate his new job. It was so great to see him and catch up and ruminate on the impact of AI on the future of humanity.
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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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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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Anomaly SF
It’s Thursday, our usual dining out day so we ate at Anomaly, a restaurant that was started as a pop-up in previous years an finally settled into their permanent location in Lower Pac Heights. They were recently mentioned in the Michelin guide with a future announcement to come on whether they merit a Bib Gourmand…
