Category: Restaurant
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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
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The Shota
Back to our regular Thursday evening dining routine. This was the last Michelin starred restaurant in SF at which we had not yet dined and was one added during the most recent guide. The restaurant only had 11 diners seated while we were there (pre-Covid, they sat up to 18). Decor was Japanese minimalist and
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Saison
Andrea had a dinner with her coworkers so what’s a guy to do? Fortunately, I was able to score a last minute reservation at Saison. Last time I was here, I was with Scott on his birthday, which happens to be on Star Wars day; that is still one of the best meals I ever
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Legends of Hawai‘i Lūʻau at Hilton
It’s Thursday, our usual day to go out to eat and it’s Thanksgiving. But no turkey for us. We decided we may as well go to a luau and get some kalua pork. Food was as expected, but I was happy to get my pork which was seasoned well enough. The sunset was beautiful once
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Kamuela Provision Company
Short version: Food is basically hotel food, but the venue is great. Long version: Reservation was for the chefs 3-course tasting menu which reserved seating outside on the lanai. I scheduled the reservation for 5:15 which gave us time to make sure we would take in the sunset at 5:45. We don’t get to eat
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Merriman’s Waimea
Tonight’s dinner was only a block away from last night’s dinner. Definitely a contrast. Venue was more upscale and service was very attentive (we were in and out in less than 90 minutes). Menu was more refined, but some hits and some misses. Cocktails were both solid (ginger martini for Andrea and a Lilikoi mai
