I tend to take fusion cuisine with a grain of salt. Too many wasabi-creme foams and deep-fried California rolls have made me apprehensive, but done right, fusion can be a beautiful thing. At the Embarcadero’s Ferry Building, Hapa Ramen does fusion right by serving up bowls of locally sourced and locally influenced noodles. I stopped [...]
“Have you tried Sai’s chicken noodle curry soup?” I’ve been asked this question no less than five times by friends who work in downtown San Francisco. It’s a popular hole-in-the-wall with the Financial District crowd, and around noontime every weekday, Sai’s becomes flanked by a crowd of suits waiting for a seat. Determined to finally [...]
I rarely eat French food. It’s not that I don’t like it, it’s just that, well, I don’t know what I’m doing when it comes to ordering off a French menu. The last time I tried, I wound up accidentally ordering sweetbreads deep-fried in butter. (Word to the wise: sweetbreads are not what they sound [...]
I must have walked past House of Nanking dozens of times in the last year, but I never paid it much attention. Located on the border of San Francisco’s Chinatown and North Beach, this colorful, slightly wacky restaurant attracts its fair share of tourists, so I tended to eschew it. That is, until a friend [...]
There’s a Plant Cafe Organic within walking distance of my office in San Francisco’s Financial District, and I go whenever I’m craving vegetarian far and don’t mind braving the consistently long line. But it wasn’t until recently that I realized that there’s another outpost along the Embarcadero, only a few minutes away. I met a [...]