In this article:
—Sleek New Neighborhood Sushi & Sake Stop: Kuma on Valencia
—Daily Fresh Pasta for Home Cooking: Pasta Supply Co
—Sicilian Gelato & Sweets Haven: Hila Gelato
—Massive Portions of Heartwarming Mexican Fare in Inner Richmond: Caliente Bistro
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Original article here: https://medium.com/@virginiamiller_29308/idyllic-new-neighborhood-oyster-bar-popis-oysterette-521f0ea162bb_________________________________ San Francisco’s history is interlaced deeply with seafood. Dungeness crab. Local halibut. Anchovies. Tomales Bay oysters. It’s in our blood and roots. SF’s style of seafood oyster bars are its own. Popi’s Oysterette, just opened in the Marina from chef/partner Melissa Perfit, a former “Top Chef” contestant who cooked at my beloved Bar Crudo since back… Read more →
Aphotic spot prawns and Tsar Nicoulai caviar. Photo by Virginia Miller. I won’t forget my first visit to Palette soon after opening in 2019 when chef Peter Hemsley grilled up rare, local coonstripe shrimp just caught that morning, buttery-fresh and revelatory… like eating our divine local spot prawns for the first time. With a cooking background ranging from Paris and New… Read more →
Coho’s Dungeness crab noodles. Photo by Virginia Miller. No one was more surprised than me to find a standout new restaurant, one even worth crossing the bridge for, in sleepy, idyllic Mill Valley. Marin County is infamously talked about amongst many of my industry and food obsessed colleagues as the one subpar food county in all the Bay Area. Despite Marin’s… Read more →
These newcomers or new menus cover the gamut, from heartwarming Jamaican food to another worthy Italian seafood haven in North Beach. Alongside this month’s full restaurant reviews, these five are also worth visiting. Read more →
Anchovy Bar anchovy platter from an early visit (Photo Credit: Virginia Miller) Opened by Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski of Michelin-starred State Bird Provisions and The Progress in October 2020 on Lower Fillmore Street, The Anchovy Bar was a brave entrant in a brutal year. It was easily among my top few new restaurants of that year — and my top two next… Read more →
At the prime, heavily foot-trafficked location of Valencia between 16th and 17th Streets, Ancora (“anchor” in Latin) opened July 2, 2022, in the former Locanda space. It was opened by Andi and Joe Conte of Water2Table, the venerable sustainable seafood company that many Bay Area restaurants — and more recently, consumers, too — source from since 2011. Read more →
These six spots cover the gamut, from “real deal” New Orleans to Korean fried chicken. Here’s why these six are worth eating at/from now: Read more →
Osito‘s first round of bites — Photo Credit: Virginia Miller Two years in the works, a restaurant as ambitious as Osito is a daunting task, especially when those two years are pandemic. Just opened late December 2021, chef Seth Stowaway’s first restaurant has crowd-sourced investors, a labor of love tested in pop-ups, where people can invest at all levels (even as little as… Read more →
Le Fantastique cured, aged and raw fish/sashimi — Photo Credit Virginia Miller They had me at McIntosh. True, my husband Dan and I have vintage McIntosh amps at home, which we stumbled upon unexpectedly in an estate sale in Sebastopol years ago at a crazy-good price. Listening to records through this gorgeous system beloved by audiophiles the world over (vintage McIntosh is almost… Read more →