Marlowe Restaurant Review One of the major challenges of writing restaurant reviews is the inevitable slide towards getting metaphysical about food. One the one hand, it’s food. It’s something you put in your cakehole, it’s good or it’s not, and attaching more meaning to this universal human act is just sort of dopey. On the(…)
Alioto’s Waterside Cafe Restaurant Review Situated on Fisherman’s Wharf, Alioto’s is a landmark Italian seafood restaurant that has been owned and operated by the same family for four generations. Alioto’s has been selling fresh seafood since 1925, when it was the simple food stall #8 on the wharf. Today, Alioto’s still has a streetside food(…)
Review of Amber India Restaurant in San Francisco Amber India Restaurant Review – Indian food is a world unto itself. It’s complicated, it operates with a completely different set of seasonings, spices and presentations than Western food, and it also comes in all kinds of regional variations, which make writing about it even trickier, plus,(…)
Waterbar Restaurant Review– Waterbar is a big, expensive, flashy barn of a restaurant. It’s kind of the Anna Nicole Smith of places – showy, big, and conspicuous. This begins with the setting, which is, as the name implies, right by the edge of San Francisco Bay, with the Bay Bridge and its lightshow as(…)
Cliff House Bistro Restaurant Review – One of San Francisco’s oldest and most famous restaurants, the Cliff House, is renowned more for its location than its food. As its name suggests, the Cliff House sits atop a cliff overlooking the ocean, offering great views of Seal Rocks, where the sea lions lounge when they’re not(…)
Crown and Crumpet Tea Stop Cafe Review Crown and Crumpet Tea Stop Café Restaurant is a great modern tea room, offering dainty sandwiches, delicate desserts, and a wide variety of teas (when they’re in stock!). The menu divides the many teas into categories: black, green, premium, oolong, white, fruit and herbal. Some of the special(…)
Presidio Social Club Restaurant Review Presidio Social Club serves modern American food in a unique setting, as one of few restaurants located within the Presidio. As part of Presidio National Park, Presidio Social Club showcases the odd mixture of military history and nature within the city of San Francisco, from its setting to its architecture,(…)
One of the higher-rated restaurants on Pier 39, the Crab House specializes in in Dungeness crab and offers great views of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge. I don’t often think of Pier 39 as a place to go get great food (and most San Franciscans probably agree – even nearby Fisherman’s Wharf isn’t(…)
Central Kitchen Restaurant Review – One of the things that happens if you review a lot of restaurants is the Inadvertent Comparison. You start to judge and categorize places by other places you’ve been. You don’t quite judge them on their own merits, but on their merits relative to what someone else has done, or(…)
The Tonga Room Tonga Room &Hurricane Bar- Restaurant Review The Tonga Room & Hurricane Bar is a tiki themed bar and restaurant inside the Fairmont San Francisco. Since opening in 1945, the Tonga Room has been serving Pacific Rim/Asian inspired cuisine and signature tropical drinks in its unique setting. The restaurant’s ambiance is a bit(…)
