Category: Restaurant
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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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Dumpling Time
Sunday brunch at Dumpling Time. Lamb dumplings with five spice, lobster siu mai, chicken gyoza, seared char sui bao, and pork XLB. We’re all so full!!
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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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Estiatorio Ornos
Tonight we are at Estiatorio Ornos the Greek Mina restaurant that replaced Michael Mina. Andrea, Trisha and I had tried to dine here a couple months ago but our plans were foiled due to the heavy rains that caused some flooding in the restaurant so our reservation was canceled. I have many fond memories of…
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The Anchovy Bar
This Thursday, we ate at a newish (opened during the pandemic) restaurant which is a sister restaurant to The Progress and State Bird Provisions which are both Michelin starred restaurants just around the corner. It was interesting that our server had asked us if we had eaten at the other restaurants (which, of course, we…
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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…
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Sato Omakase
This is a new multi concept restaurant that just just added their 10-seat omakase counter a few weeks ago. Seating is not socially distanced like The Shota was, so was a little tight if you are concerned about that. Of course we went to the first seating since I’m old and like to go to…
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Abacá
This Thursday, we ate at a new contemporary Filipino-California restaurant that just opened in August. It’s in the Alton Hotel in Fisherman’s Wharf (I think the last time I was down here was during fleet week 2019 when Kristine was here) which is also new. Cocktails were fun and tasty (Ube-colada!). We ordered more than…
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Nari
Our initial plan to eat at Estiatorio Ornos was thwarted when the restaurant closed due to flooding with all of this rain, so I booked last minute here at Nari which is someplace we’ve been meaning to try ever since we had some great takeout during the panic from here and the sister restaurant Kin…