They have a new chef. Great cocktails*Celery root soup with delicious bread.Little gems with a well balanced buttermilk dressing.Cavatelli – pasta a bit heavier than I like.Petrale Sole – not my taste.*Duck confit w/ pomagranate, very good.Espresso Financier - good dessert, nicely accented with citrus.
Archive for the ‘Sunset’ Category
Outerlands in Winter
December 29, 2011
JUST WON TON**’
November 9, 2007
Just Won Ton is a noodle soup shop located across from some accountants’ offices, on Vincente Street in the Outer Sunset. Hot Beef Wonton Noodle Soup and their fried tofu stuffed with pork are the two items I consistently order. It’s a Cantonese diner style food with some homestyle rice plates and a neighborhood crowd. [...]
NEW CHEUNG HING**
November 2, 2007
**Update: This restaurant is now closed** I’ve passed New Cheung Hing too many times to count. Somehow their hanging ducks have never enticed me to taste something from their counter of prepared foods. The few times that I have walked into the restaurant, the prepared foods seemed like they had been in the steaming trays [...]
TOFU VILLAGE**
September 26, 2007
Tofu Village on Irving at 20th has taken over the space that once housed the only good Taiwanese restaurant in the city. Oh well. The space is the same, though they’ve added a flat screen tv to the wall and were playing some Chinese movie with Ziyi Zhang from Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Despite the [...]
TOFU VILLAGE**
July 24, 2007
Heading over to have dinner at Kevin’s Noodle House on Irving near 19th, I saw that the old Taiwanese snack place has now changed from a jook house to a Korean tofu place. I had to try it. Tofu House has the usual assortment of soon tofu chige and a pretty good menu of combos [...]
PLAYA AZUL*** & THE LIME TREE*’
July 17, 2007
Met up with A for a lunch of Caldo de Siete Mares and a Tostada de Ceviche de Pulpo at Playa Azul, and then we went over the top with a double at Mitchell’s. The soup was very hearty and tomato based full of vegetables and seafood. We were smart enough to split the soup [...]
