Need SF dinner recommendations

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Did this a couple years ago. Need recs for nice dinner, homey, good wine list. Down for a quick weekend. Thanks.

I've been lobbying for food from the Spencer truck + Terroir, but Mme L will have none of it. She wants a proper sit down.
 
I felt no love from the service staff at Nopa. Nopalito I like, though.

I highly recommend dim sum at Great Eastern on Jackson near Grant St. Get the coconut cake for dessert.
 
Yep, Cory is right. If you do go, bring a small flashlight and a magnifier for reading the wine list. It's packed onto one page and printed using a small font.

I assume since it's a quick trip that there's no time for a jeebus, correct?
 
originally posted by BJ:
Need SF dinner recommendationsDid this a couple years ago. Need recs for nice dinner, homey, good wine list. Down for a quick weekend. Thanks.

I've been lobbying for food from the Spencer truck + Terroir, but Mme L will have none of it. She wants a proper sit down.
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Depends also on what kind of food you want. The food and wine list at Flour + Water is quite good, but it is hard to get a table. Similar comments from others on Cotogna, next door to Quince. This is more or less rustic Tuscan cuisine, although rustic is used advisedly (rustic compared to Quince next door).

Will be checking out Zuni Cafe again tonight after not having been there for years. Tough decision between the 2009 Lapierre Morgon "N" or the 2010 Huet le Mont Sec (the 2005 Huet Petillant just sold out). They also have the Puzelat Tue-Boeuf on the list.

Basically much of the wine list looks like it has been developed by a WineDisorder participant...
 
I had lunch at Zuni recently and was very satisfied. The list is much improved over my memory of it, too.
 
Cotogna is one of the toughest reservations to get in SF unless you eat at an off-hour. They take reservations exactly one month prior to the desired day. Sandi and I got an 8PM one for Sat 3/24 only because I went online at 12:01AM on 2/25. I checked the next morning around 7 and that evening was fully booked.
 
originally posted by Guilhaume gerard:
BYO at mission chinese. This is the best thing that happened to San Francisco since....La Ciccia.
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originally posted by maureen:
and while we're praising Zuni Cafe, may I just observe that the Zuni Cafe cookbook is terrific?
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Indeed. It's all about the bread salad and you could even skip their own roast chicken and buy a supermarket rotisserie chicken to serve with the bread salad, it's that good - but you already knew that.

Fried eggs with breadcrumbs can turn any morning into a sublime experience.
 
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by SFJoe:
I had lunch at Zuni recently and was very satisfied. The list is much improved over my memory of it, too.
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ROAST CHICKEN!!!
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That is what I am ordering tonight.

I still have to decide whether to go for the 2009 Lapierre Morgon "N", or perhaps a bottle of 2008? Baudry that I gave to my brother and which has now brought all the way back to SF (from Denver). Which goes better with the roast chicken??
 
originally posted by Larry Stein:
Cotogna is one of the toughest reservations to get in SF unless you eat at an off-hour. They take reservations exactly one month prior to the desired day. Sandi and I got an 8PM one for Sat 3/24 only because I went online at 12:01AM on 2/25. I checked the next morning around 7 and that evening was fully booked.
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Sounds about right. You can walk in I guess, but it is usually a minimum 1.5 hour wait. I would be interested to hear how it compares with Flour + Water, which I really enjoyed.

Otherwise, looks like I am headed to La Ciccia next...
 
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