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In addition, their private dining room is available for business meetings, wedding events, and cocktail receptions. Absinthe's lively bar provides classic and creative cocktails and late-night dining. A tasty caesar salad and a risotto with fava beans, basil, and parmesan are great options. The restaurant features an innovative menu of French brasserie fare and an inspired selection of classic cocktails. The restaurant is located within walking distance of the Civic Center.

Absinthe Brasserie & Bar is an upscale, Parisian-style brasserie & bar that serves French-Mediterranean cuisine & creative cocktails. The a la carte meal is bookended by desserts like espresso sugar doughnuts with black sesame ice cream, coconut curd, and candied kumquat made by Krasinski.Absinthe Brasserie & Bar is one of the romantic and popular fine-dining establishments in San Francisco. Memorable wines adorn the drink list, along with reinterpreted classic cocktails like a martini with smoked Castelvetrano olive juice and rosemary oil.

Local producers provide the ingredients for dishes like quail egg roti with greens and fondue, lamb shank meatballs with wine-braised onions and prunes, and duck with spicy peanuts, Thai basil, and smoked chili vinegar served on specially designed pottery from Mary Mar Keenan. A passion project for chef-owners Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski (also the proprietor-chefs of the Michelin starred State Bird Provisions next door), the focus at The Progress is on banquet-style meals meant for sharing. The Progress is an early 20th-century theater-turned-showcase of modern style with sculptural, sloping wooden walls, hexagonal tiled floors, and a bar accented in bronze and crowned in living plants and branches. Upstairs, Jew's more recent addition, the plush, mid-century Chinatown-inspired Moongate Lounge, serves bites from the kitchen below along with a selection of creative, Chinese-inspired cocktails like the Io, made with mezcal, montenegro, black garlic, and plum.

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A much wider range of elevated classics, including several vegetarian options like tofu skin with spring onions, cured egg yolk, and asparagus, appear on the a la carte menu. Among the most affordable tasting menus in the city, Mister Jiu's Classics is packed with seven savory dishes like Dutch crunch BBQ pork buns and pork 'lion's head' meatballs. Now, Jew's traditional Chinese food with a local, seasonal foundation in Northern California is being heralded as some of the best in the city. Really it should come as no surprise chef/owner Brandon Jew grew up in this neighborhood, and this same space once held one of his favorite childhood restaurants. Yes, Mister Jiu's boasts stunning gold lotus blossom chandeliers and a modern bar, but at its heart, it's not a whole lot different from the family-owned Chinese restaurants that populate Chinatown with their large, unadorned dining rooms and statues straight out of Chinese mythology.

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RECOMMENDED: Full guide to the best San Francisco restaurants It’s hard enough to choose among the best restaurants in San Francisco for an average night out, but with this many spectacular Michelin-starred ones, how do you choose when you want to dine somewhere extra special? As generations of esteemed global travelers can attest, the Michelin guide will not steer you wrong, and here we’ve whittled down the most enticing offerings of the guide’s most recent awards.

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The list includes modern American and Californian spots, plus standouts from the best Japanese, French, and Italian restaurants throughout the area, including hot dining spots in Berkeley, Oakland, and elsewhere. Since its debut in Michelin’s best-of-the-best guide in 2007, the city has gone on to earn more three-star awards than even New York. In total, the Bay Area has more than 60 starred restaurants, showing the region is truly the culinary capital of North America with numerous tantalizing cuisine types and genres on offer at the highest of levels. San Francisco has long been one of the most (if not the most) famous destinations for fine dining in the world.

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