Had another great meal here last night.
Salt cod brandade fritters, tuna tartar, chicory caesar salad, blistered shishito peppers and gnocchi with grilled corn, mushroom, pea tendrils and truffle butter.
A lot of things on the menu sound boring because you see them on menus all over town, but they really elevate and nail them. The brandade fritters were more complex than just cod and potato and came with remoulade and some lemon - I could have eaten half a dozen; the shishito peppers came on a bed of smoked baba ganoush, with feta and some edible flowers; the chicory caeser is my favorite salad in SF, just perfectly balanced with citrus and creamy notes, homemade croutons and crispy prosciutto. Tuna tartare is something I haven’t ordered in a restaurant in years, but this one was prefect, with preserved lemon, basil, Persian cucumbers.
The gnocchi was good and had a strong flavor of real truffles from the truffle butter but I think where they really shine is with their apps and “snacks”. I think I will just order a bunch more small plates next time and skip the pastas and mains.
This is one of my favorite SF restaurants, the atmosphere is great and it feels organic rather than some slick restaurant group concept.
[@sck or @hyperbowler can you edit the title to this post, it should be Pearl 6101 - thx.]
