Archive for the ‘San Francisco CA restaurant’ 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 Chickens, Cornish Game Hens, Fowl, Fried Chicken, San Francisco CA restaurant. Tagged: bacar, bacar restaurant review, bacar restaurant', bacar review, bacar wine bar SF, BBQ ribs and fried chicken, best fried chicken in SF, buttermilk fried chicken, chef dinners in SF, excellent fried chicken, Fried Chicken, great fried chicken in SF, July 4th special dinner. Leave a Comment
But the fried chicken skin was so light and crispy and the chicken so perfectly juicy, that I really hope they consider adding it to the menu as a more regular item. Slightly piquant, the batter was really great. This is among the best fried chickens I’ve had in 2009, and gets my highest grade (awesome).
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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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3
Jul
Posted by meatmeister in Bacon, San Francisco CA restaurant. Tagged: bacon and oysters, bacon and seafood, best fried oysters in SF, cornmeal fried oysters, excellent oysters in SF, favorite fried foods in SF, fried oysters and bacon, great Southern food in CA, Hobbs applewood smoked bacon, Hobbs bacon, Town Hall, Town Hall restaurant review. Leave a Comment
Anything with Hobbs’ Applewood Smoked Bacon would be a treat, and Hobbs’ is just fine all by its lonesome as well. But topping cornmeal-fried oysters with a fat little dice of Hobbs bacon and preserved lemon twist, all nestled in a verdant spinach-Herbsaint puree hidden in the oyster shell….wow. It’s a full bite with vibrancy of color and a pulsating set of flavors that really sets a meal off. Go Town Hall. Another stellar dish.
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2
Jul
Posted by meatmeister in Beef, Flatiron Steak, San Francisco CA restaurant. Tagged: beef blade cut, beef shoulder or chuck, best flatiron steak, Certified Angus Beef, chef ola fendert, excellent steaks, excellent steaks in SF, Flatiron Steak, good steaks in bay area, good steaks in SOMA, great bay area steaks, great flatiron steak, Ola Fendert, Ola Fendert Oola, Oola, Oola restaurant review, steak, steak and potatoes, steaks in SOMA, what is flatiron steak. Leave a Comment
Oola’s flatiron steak…is definitely the best flatiron steak I’ve eaten in 2009. Baring its flesh like a fashionable summer sunburn, the grilled slices skate up from a pond of peppercorn gravy: simply sumptuous morsels. The potato gratin slices are also great, and well-balanced with cheese that’s mild and doesn’t show up the beef,
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2
Jul
Posted by meatmeister in BBQ Ribs, Pork, San Francisco CA restaurant. Tagged: baby back pork ribs, baby back ribs, BBQ, BBQ ribs, bbq ribs recipe, crispy bbq ribs, crispy bbq ribs recipe, Food & Wine magazine, great BBQ ribs, great ribs in SF, Oola, oola bbq ribs, Oola restaurant review, Oola ribs, winning ribs recipes. Leave a Comment
Baby Back Ribs – Oola, SF
There’s a lot of hype around Oola restaurant’s BBQ baby back ribs, and they did not disappoint. Crisp and charred on the exterior, they do that fall-off-the-bone thing once you grab onto them. Call that the rib version of seduction. The barbecue sauce is sweet and tangy with a slow-rolling [...]
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1
Jul
Posted by meatmeister in Chickens, Cornish Game Hens, Fowl, Fried Chicken, San Francisco CA restaurant. Tagged: best fried chicken, best of bay area fried chicken, cheap eats Giants games, cheap food near AT&T, chicken and rice, fast food, fast food restaurant review, fast food restaurants, food near AT&T Park, food near Giants game, Fried Chicken, fried chicken and dirty rice, great fried chicken, La fried chicken, Louisiana Fried Chicken. Leave a Comment
I must say that Louisiana Fried Chicken is killer. Super-crisp skin and drip-on-your-fingers juicy chicken. Get a two-piece or three-piece with a small side (instead of the combo with side, which is more expensive). Dirty, dirty, dirty rice. I want to wag my finger at you like Stephen Colbert, but I’ve already eaten you.
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1
Jul
Posted by meatmeister in Chickens, Cornish Game Hens, Fowl, San Francisco CA restaurant. Tagged: baked chicken, best baked chicken in SF, best chicken dishes in SF, great chicken dishes, great chicken in SF, Mediterranean cuisine, Mediterranean food, Moroccan chicken, Spruce, Spruce restaurant, Spruce restaurant review, Spruce SF. Leave a Comment
Every so often, one needs the nurturing of chicken. Odd that a nervous, annoying little fowl could render such comfort, but it’s one of the mysteries of life. And the Moroccan spiced chicken at Spruce is one of the best chicken dishes I’ve had in 2009. Slightly sweet, dreamily aromatic, and skin-crisp, the bird reveals its juicy interior with a soft slice
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23
Jun
Posted by meatmeister in Beef, Beef Bavette, San Francisco CA restaurant. Tagged: Beef, Beef Bavette, beef bavette steak, Coco 500, Coco 500 restaurant, Coco500, great steak, great steaks in San Francisco, great steaks in SF, mizuna, mizuna greens, what is beef bavette. Leave a Comment
Beef Bavette
You’ll have to excavate the American Kobe Beef Bavette from under the little forest-trap of greens and chopped radish, but it’s a nice discovery. Cooked rare, this beef is terrifically tender and rich. The mizuna (a Japanese salad green) and organic radishes provide a good bright balance with slight bitterness and crunch, and some [...]
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5
Jun
Posted by meatmeister in San Francisco CA restaurant, schnitzel. Tagged: best jager schnitzel, best schnitzel in SF, classic pork schnitzel, German cuisine, German food, German food in SF, great jager schnitzel, great schnitzel, great schnitzel in San Francisco, great schnitzel in SF, jager schnitzel, mushroom gravy, pork schnitzel, schnitzel, Walzwerk, Walzwerk SF. 2 Comments
After a round-robin of German restaurants in San Francisco–heavy eating–Walzwerk laid down the best jager schnitzel I’ve had to date. The schnitzel is perfectly seasoned in great batter, and the portions are Teutonic, titanic, huge. The spaetzle, a critical element on a schnitzel plate, is simply great. And the creamy mushroom-onion gravy is fantastic. Amazingly, it’s just $15 at dinner, a terrific value.
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