Awesome. I’ll check out Bar Crudo for some HH action. Love me a good chowder.
Does NOPA still do their awesome pork chop?
Yes and their burger is still great. If you want an ice cream fix Bi-Rite is across the street from Bar Crudo and usually has no line at all (unlike the Mission location).
In Situ is fantastic, Bar Crudo’s oyster happy hour is great, and the duck at The Morris is solid indeed. The Morris also has an insane chartreuse collection, if you’re into that sort of thing.
I ate at the bar at Angler a couple weeks ago and did not have a good experience, but that may have been partly due to the atrocious server.
No love for Mister Jiu’s?
I like it.
Ming Kee for the BBQ Pork Neck and Soy Sauce Chicken!!!
The best Hong Kong BBQ in the whole damn state. Maybe the whole US of A.
Yet it is still relatively unknown except among the local Cantonese and Chinese college students
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I was able to get in to Sorrel so ended up canceling In Situ. Seems like a safer bet. Hopefully it’s the right decision.
That’s a very upscale neighborhood. They have to satisfy picky rich people.
what does that even mean?
That neighborhood is SF’s equivalent of Beverly Hills. I think you’re pretty sure to eat well, but it will be expensive and safe.
Sorrel is excellent. I’ve been once during their pop up days and at least 4 times when they had their proper restaurant. I don’t even want to bother with Quince. Top notch high end pastas, and very creative flavors.
It does get pretty dark and very noisy in there though. But adds a bit to the atmosphere. When it gets packed, things can be a bit slow.
They have a reasonable tasting menu around the $80s mark. If you have multiple people might be worth adding an additional pasta or two to share.
Not too enamored with their wine list, but I’ve done corkage for wine (Burgundy and Brunello) and sake, and if you bring the right drink and pair it right, the experience is amazing.
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IIRC we were wanting to go there last year but our friends who live not far weren’t available. It still looks super. There’s a dish with arugula pesto. Sign me up for THAT!
You will not go wrong with Sorrell. If you don’t do the Tasting Menu, get whatever dish highlights a bread product.
Should I get the whole sourdough loaf? Looks great but the fact that they charge $4 for freaking butter does not sit well with me.
I don’t eat butter with bread. So can’t say.
But the bread is outrageous.
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No butter? What??? I’m disappoint
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The sourdough foccacia at Sorrel is amazeballs (that’s their house bread).
They do charge $3 for cultured butter and you also have the option to have bagna cauda instead of butter which I highly recommend (or if you have at least two people in your party, try both). The tasting menu I believe includes the focaccia. If you are just one person, take the remainder to go if you can’t finish it all. Light microwave heating ~20 seconds and it’s still great the next day for breakfast.
Even the right wine or sake paired with the bread (and butter) is ridiculously interesting and fun.
Bar Crenn is an expensive lounge. Food is classic French with small sharable plates. It can be very pricey with with. Desserts were very good. It was a nice break from all the tasting menus we do when family comes to visit.
Had a great weekend eating in SF. Thanks for all the recs.
Upon landing, headed straight to Hog Island at the Ferry building for lunch. Amazing as always and I’d say their cooking has actually improved.
First night’s dinner was at Sorrel.
Chicores salad with goat cheese was incredible. One of the best salads I’ve had.
Foie gras was also really good, and given the new laws passing, I knew I had to get it while I could.
I had read that their pasta program is really strong so we got two different pastas to share. First was rigatoni carbonara. This dish didn’t really sing for either of us. Good bite to the pasta but dish was very heavy and we got sick of it after a few bites.
Next pasta was the tagliatelle with beef ragu. Again, pretty average dish with no layers of flavor in the ragu sauce. Compared to some of the top pasta places in LA, Sorrel definitely was several notches below, although both appetizers were amazing.
We skipped out on the sourdough loaf as tempting as it was because it was just two of us and that’s why more carbs than we care to eat. But pretty much every table was getting one and it looked amazing.
Saturday for lunch, hit up the farmer’s market and got a porchetta sandwich from Roli Roti. AMAZING!!! I love how they put some crispy skin in every sandwich and the rosemary salt really brings out the flavors of the pork. We need something like this in LA for sure.
Wondered over to the Fisherman’s Wharf area later that day (we are tourists after all) and had one of the, if not the best fish and chips I’ve had at The Codmother Fish and Chips. Perfectly crispy light batter and even the fries were perfect. (sorry for the horrible pic)
Dinner at The Morris. Impressive wine program, cocktails were ok. The Chartreuse slushy was way too acidic and imbalanced. My buddy got a mezcal cocktail which I thought was too boozy as well.
We each got a dumpling to start. Was ok, nothing memorable. I wouldn’t have ordered this since I read mixed reviews about it but our friend recommended it so we went with it.
Broccolini with squid was really good, a bit spicier than I like. If you like spicy, this is a great dish.
Charcuterie board with Tartine bread was out of this world. All made in house. Perfect wine food. From left to right, Sopressata, duck rillete, and duck liver pate. Forget the cheeses but it was sheep’s and goat milk.
Also had the trout dish, which was ok.
And the reason we came, the smoked duck. This is half a duck ($60) which was more than enough to share with 4 people. We had left overs. Very unique preparation of duck. I’m not sure I prefer it over roast duck. It did get very heavy after a bit, but highly recommend if you do come here to try it.
Did manage to make it to Bar Crudo for happy hour. After having oysters at Hog Island, the oysters were a big disappointment here. They were dry with hardly any water and their HH food menu was about $1 discount off their regular menu, so unless you’re coming for oysters and cheap wine, it’s a skip imo. The fish tacos were good but two small tacos for $10 was hardly a deal.
Went to Golden Gate Bakery for some egg tarts and they were closed with a hand written note saying “Closed for 3 week vacation” with no indication on when they are reopening. We thought that was pretty funny. We did manage to find another bakery around the corner that had more than serviceable egg tarts.
Thanks for all the recs!
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