San Francisco's Dine About Town

San Francisco's 6th Annual Dine About Town started January 1, so run to the nearest participating restaurant and get your high-end grub on for a astonishingly reasonable price. As long as you use your Visa card, a decent number of the city's best restaurants have specially prepared 3-course prix fixe meals and $21.95 for lunch and $31.95 for dinner. At a place like the participating Asia de Cuba in the Clift Hotel, that's a steal!  As they say, "it's like you've dined and gone to heaven"!Here's a few of our recommendations:

Absinthe Brasserie and Bar:

Absinthe, designed to evoke the French Belle Époque, fits well with San Francisco's Beaux-Arts Civic Center, and is spacious enough to offer a lively café setting, a full bar, and dining rooms suited for pre-opera dining and late-night lingering inspired by turn of the century romance and mystery. 

A creative upscale French brasserie menu of French café options includes classic dishes plus well-stocked fresh and raw seafood selections. The restaurant offers an extensive selection of imported cheeses that can be paired with carefully chosen wines and spirits. The bar at Absinthe offers a wide selection of wines, spirits and beers from throughout the world.

Circolo Restaurant:

The country has begun to take notice. New York Post hailed Circolo as one of the 10 reasons to visit San Francisco, while Food & Wine affirmed Circolo’s signature cocktails as some of the best in the city. Circolo Restaurant & Lounge showcases nightlife impresario Jon Mayeda and Executive Chef Patrick Kehler making a mark on the San Francisco dining scene, blending mouthwatering fine dining cuisine and a seductive lounge setting. Circolo’s enticing menu features California cuisine with Latin and Asian influences.

Garcon:

GARCON! offers a traditional bistro fare in a casual yet elegant atmosphere. Such fares include Duck confit, onion soup, salmon with Bearnaise sauce. Products are carefully selected, according to origin and quality, priority is given to organic produce.

Rose Pistola:

Rose Pistola is a celebration of the bawdy, friendly, but sophisticated side of San Francisco’s Italian quarter. This stylish gathering place personifies the vibrancy of its namesake, a North Beach denizen who ran the most colorful bar and restaurant in the neighborhood.

The menu, too is inspired by the area’s original residents from the Ligurian coast, near Genoa & Portofino. It changes daily, in keeping with the Italian tradition of using local, fresh ingredients, all delivered to your door daily by independent purveyors.

With its chef’s dining counter, booths, cozy dining room and lively bar, Rose Pistola invites everything from a leisurely glass of Chianti and a bowl of pasta, to a traditional, Italian-style feast of seasonal antipasti, whole roasted fish and rotisserie meats


Tokyo Go-Go:

Tokyo Go-Go is a Japanese inspired sushi bar and restaurant in the hip urban neighborhood of the Mission District in San Francisco. Since 1998 we have been providing our customers with fresh and inventive sushi.

Modeled after a Japanese Izakaya, or place to dine, drink and socialize, we have created a colorful and energetic atmosphere that is as interesting as the food and the people around you. Executive Chef John Park is always on the lookout for fresh seasonal fish and local produce. From Snake River Farms marbled Kobe beef, to wild bigeye tuna and local salmon, to earthy matsutake mushrooms, our eclectic menu is sure to please the novice as well as the sushi connoisseur. Dine with us today to see our latest selections of fresh sushi, local ingredients, premium sake, eclectic wines and full bar. Guaranteed to be addictive!

 

 

Eat your heart out San Francisco!