Archive for the ‘Favorite SF restaurants’ Category
5
Jul
Posted by meatmeister in Chickens, Cornish Game Hens, Favorite SF restaurants, Fowl, Fried Chicken, San Francisco CA restaurant. Tagged: best buttermilk fried chicken recipe, best fried chicken, best fried chicken in CA, best fried chicken in SF, buttermilk fried chicken, country bacon gravy, excellent chicken, Fried Chicken, Town Hall, Town Hall restaurant review, Town Hall review. Leave a Comment
There’s a reason that Town Hall has had buttermilk fried chicken as a menu staple since their inception. It is just awesome. It’s the best fried chicken you may have in the last year, or perhaps your lifetime. It is simply that good. Perfect batter crunch, and sweetly tender inside, the fried chicken comes with smashed potatoes slurred with a fantastic country bacon gravy
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5
Jul
Posted by meatmeister in Favorite SF restaurants, Fowl, San Francisco CA restaurant, Squab. Tagged: all brown food, Canteen restaurant, Canteen restaurant review, Chef Dennis Leary, Dennis Leary, Fowl, half squab, Jacques Pepin, roasted squab, roasted squab dish, Squab, squab appetizer, squab in sf, squab with apricot-cumin glaze, squab with lentils. Leave a Comment
1/2 Squab
Squab (pigeon) is a funky fowl that’s favored by the French. On an episode of last season’s “Top Chef” where contestants had to cook for culinary masters, Jacques Pepin confessed his passion for squab and how it resonated with pleasant boyhood memories of growing up in France. Certainly when squab is done well, it’s a [...]
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29
May
Posted by meatmeister in Beef, Favorite SF restaurants, San Francisco CA restaurant, Steak Frites. Tagged: angus, angus beef, angus steak, Belgian beer, best gastro pubs, best restaurants in the Mission, brew pub, Chef Kevin Kroger, excellent steaks, gastropubs, gastropubs in SF, great steak and potatoes, great steaks in SF, hip restaurants in SF, microbrews, Mission District restaurants, Monk's Kettle, Monk's Kettle restaurant, Monk's Kettle restaurant review, Monk's Kettle review, steak, steak and fries, steak frites, sustainable beef. 1 Comment
Monk’s Kettle serves up a very tempting steak frites, with a giant leafy forest of greens. This skirt steak’s a juicy little Angus (Nature Well), cooked to order (medium-well or bust), and nicely portioned. But red wine shallot butter and demi-glace give the beef quite a pronounced pounce. This steak frites has a bit more attitude than most; it’s an excellent version.
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28
May
Posted by meatmeister in Favorite SF restaurants, Pork, Pork Chop, San Francisco CA restaurant. Tagged: awesome pork chops, best pork chop, best pork chops 2009, best pork chops in SF, chuleton, chuleton de chancho, favorite meat dishes, favorite pork dishes 2009, Favorite Restaurants, Fresca, Fresca restaurant review, Fresca SF, meatmeister, Peruvian pork dish, Peruvian restaurant, pork chop. Leave a Comment
Pork Chop – Chuleton de Chancho
Fresca, a Peruvian restaurant with two locations in San Francisco, is renowned for an amazing array of ceviche. So Fresca may not be top of mind when someone’s considering a great meat dish in the Bay Area. But make no mistake, Fresca makes one of the best pork dishes in [...]
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25
May
Posted by meatmeister in Beef, Burgers, Favorite SF restaurants, San Francisco CA restaurant. Tagged: American food, awesome burgers, Lark Creek Steak review, meatmeister, steakburgers, best burger in San Francisco, best burger reviews, best burgers, best burgers 2009, best burgers in America, best burgers in CA, best burgers in California, best burgers in SF, best burgers on West Coast, best steaks in San Francisco. burger reviews, black truffle burger, black truffles, brie burger, burger with truffles, favorite burgers, Favorite Restaurants, Favorite SF restaurants, Lark Creek Steak, meatmeister's best burger awards, perigord, perigord black truffle, steak and truffles, steak burgers, truffle burger, truffle cheese, truffled brie cheese, truffles, truffles and meat. 2 Comments
Truffle Burger
Burgers are prime candidates for creative culinary additions: cheeses, pickles, tomatoes, relish, aioli, sauce, condiments, and bacon (of course). Truffles are inherently additives to dishes, due to their seasonal availability, a continual scarcity that makes them cost-prohibitive as anything but a topping.
But if you love the taste of truffles, you’ll love this truffled steakburger [...]
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25
May
Posted by meatmeister in Beef, Burgers, Favorite SF restaurants, San Francisco CA restaurant. Tagged: American food, awesome burgers, best burger in San Francisco, best burger reviews, best burgers, best burgers in America, best burgers in CA, best burgers in California, best burgers in SF, best burgers on West Coast, best mushroom cheeseburger, best steaks in San Francisco, burger reviews, button mushrooms, favorite burgers, Favorite Restaurants, Favorite SF restaurants, Lark Creek Steak, Lark Creek Steak review, meatmeister, mushroom & swiss, mushroom and swiss, mushroom burger, steak burgers, steakburgers. Leave a Comment
Best Mushroom Burger – Lark Creek Steak
My favorite mushroom burger of 2009 (to date) is Lark Creek Steak’s mushroom steakburger. Their beef preparation should be copied by others: they use an open, wood-fire grill to cook their burgers. Their top-quality ingredients are evident by taste, and they precisely cut the portions of lettuce, pickle, and [...]
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11
May
Posted by meatmeister in Favorite SF restaurants, Lamb, Lamb Heart, Lamb Loin, Restaurant Review - CA, San Francisco CA restaurant, Sausage. Tagged: A Donkey and Goat, A Donkey and Goat WInery, Chef Michael Morrison, Chef Mike Morrison, chef's dinners, chef's dinners in SF, Coco 500, Coco 500 restaurant, Coco 500 SF, Coco500, ewe cheese, Favorite SF restaurants, grilled lamb, grilled lamb heart, Lamb, lamb chop, lamb dinner, Lamb Heart, lamb roulade, lamb shoulder, lamb shoulder sausage, multi-course dinners, roasted lamb shoulder, sheep's cheese, SOMA restaurants, spicy lamb sausage, winemaker dinner. Leave a Comment
Spring Lamb Dinner
What a phenomenal dinner. Coco500 (Chef Mike Morrison and company) recently put on a 4-course lamb dinner, paired with wines from A Donkey & Goat winery. Every dish was fantastic, and each portion of lamb perfectly cooked, smartly seasoned, and sweetly plated. The flavor combinations were subtle, letting the meat be the rightful [...]
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8
Mar
Posted by meatmeister in Beef, Favorite SF restaurants, San Francisco CA restaurant. Tagged: best steak in SF, best steaks in San Francisco, best steaks in SF, excellent steak, great steak, hormone-free meats, New American cuisine, New American food, Niman Ranch, Niman Ranch meats, Niman Ranch ribeye, rib-eye, rib-eye steaks, ribeye steak, SF, Town Hall, Town Hall restaurant. Leave a Comment
Niman Ranch Rib eye Steak
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Town Hall, San Francisco CA
As much as we might belabor the point, a truly superior steak is actually far harder to find than it should be. There are a slew of pretty decent steaks out there, but if you consider the steaks you’ve eaten in the past 5 years that sear [...]
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28
Nov
Posted by meatmeister in Favorite SF restaurants, Meaty Pasta, Restaurant Review - CA, San Francisco CA restaurant, Spaghetti & Meatballs. Tagged: excellent spaghetti and meatballs, family style restaurant, Italian food, Italian food in SF, Joey & Eddie's, meaty pastas, spaghetti, spaghetti & meatballs, spaghetti and meatballs. Leave a Comment
The Spot: Joey & Eddie’s Restaurant
As one of the few restaurants in North Beach that are really good, Joey & Eddie’s won me over the week it opened. The décor is comfortable but low-key, with a large, spacious and open main dining room of deep booths and dark wooden tables and armless, captain’s style chairs. [...]
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20
Nov
Posted by meatmeister in Favorite SF restaurants, Restaurant Review - CA, San Francisco CA restaurant, meatballs, veal. Tagged: excellent meatballs, meatballs, meatballs and gravy, peppercorn gravy, roasted veal, Town Hall restaurant, Town Hall SF, veal. Leave a Comment
The Dish: Roasted Veal Meatballs
There are meatballs that are forgettable (Chef Boyardee, and his ilk in many mediocre restaurants), and those that inspire drool when remembered. The roasted veal meatballs at Town Hall in San Francisco are the drool-y kind. Creating meatballs with veal instead of the more traditional pork-beef blend was inspired, and ladling [...]
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