Sometimes there are those nights when
you go to a restaurant with quite high expectations but you go home after the visit and you are even more impressed than you expected - that describes our first visit to Rich Table https://www.richtablesf.com/ in Hayes Valley.
Rich Table isn’t an unknown restaurant in SF (and beyond) and has “produced” some well known chefs, like Brandon Rice from Ernest but for us the overall “package” was a great fit - ambience (lively, yet relaxed), food (New American/Californian - just order the “let the chef decide” menu which will give you a great overview of many of the dishes on the menu and is a lot of great food), service (professional, yet personal - we for example asked for slow-paced night and they handled it really great) to the cocktail program (creative, well balanced drinks)
We can’t wait to be back at Rich Table
Caviar, pao de queijo, smoked cream
Douglas fir lavain, house cultured butter
Oysters, hot sauce mignonette
Sardine chips, horseradish creme fraiche
Dried porcini doughnuts, raclette
Buttermilk panna cotta, apricot chamoy, chipotle popped sorgham
Watermelon, yoghurt, mint, salted black sesame
Elote little gem salad, charred corn, cotija, cilantro
Aged beef dumplings, homemade chili crunch
Burrata, sun gold tomatoes, camino vinaigrette, sesame wheat pan con tomate
Octopus tostada, pluot, jimmy nardello chimichurri
Marinated summer peppers, almond muhammara, olives, zucchini, flatbread
Red snapper, summer pico de gallo, salsa roja, jimmy nardello, refried beans
Curry fried rice, bay shrimps, green plums, pickled fresnos, cilantro
Tonnarelli sea urchin cacio e pepe, idiazabal
21 day dry aged rib eye, pole bean chimichurri, fried onions
Salted mint chocolate sable, milk ice cream, chocolate cremeux
Mixed melon granita, cucumber sherbet, salted black sesame
Mignardise
