When we lived for many years in San Diego we often traveled regularly to San Francisco to dive into the much better culinary world up here. Since we wanted to experience as many restaurants as possible we rarely repeated any of those restaurants in SF. There were very few exceptions from that “rule” and Commis https://commisrestaurant.com/ in Oakland was one of them. We tremendously enjoyed always their food, service and ambience.
Now, living in the Bay area it was finally time to get back to Commis after more than 10 years and the visit was a good reminder for us why we liked the place so much - still outstanding food, service and ambience (and a really nice thought out wine pairing). We like their quite strong asian influences in some of their dishes and it is no surprise that they have two Michelin stars for quite some time - it won’t take us again so much time to be back
Oyster with asian pear & tarragon
Caramelized onion financier with sour cream
Taro root with sea lettuce
Halibut with asparagus, white tamari with sesame & green prickly ash
Daikon radish & shrimp cake with lemon, chives & kaluga caviar
Pork taro dumpling
Slow poached egg yolk, smoked dates, alliums & malt with fresh bread
Hake, mussel liquor with fermented black bean, english peas
Sea scallop with sweet potato & coconut, makrut peel & dungeness crab
Guinea hen, sauce of salted red chilis & soured vegetables
Scallion rice with flowering cauliflower, morel mushroom miso & A5 wagyu
Mint ice cream with shiso, unripe green strawberries
Citrus olive oil cake with burnt honey & creme fraiche
Yuzu caramel with black lime
Cherry blossom macaroon
Tonka bean sponge
