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Lord Stanley Brings Super-Restrained Scandinavian Style to Russian Hill

Post author:Winston
Post published:04.29.2016
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Lord Stanley
@Lordstanley_SF
You can file this one under ‘I just don’t get it.’ Despite the fact that Bauer and most SF reviewers absolutely adore this trendy Nordic date spot, I just can’t seem to understand the effusive outpouring of positivity.

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Russian Hill / Polk Gulch
2065 Polk St, San Francisco, CA 94109
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It’s definitely suited for an elegant date night, but don’t expect extraordinarily exciting flavors. (more…)

Nina Compton is Bringing the Caribbean Heat to Creole Country

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Post published:03.03.2016
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I absolutely love how full of super old school places the New Orleans high-end dining scene is. There are tons of these places that remain as popular, famous, and incredible as they were when they opened well over 100 years ago. But, of course, that’s not all that New Orleans has to offer. There are plenty of young upstart chefs doing extremely innovative things, evolving the long-standing culinary traditions.

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Experiencing NOLA’s Famed Ooey, Gooey, Crispy, Char-Grilled Oysters

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Post published:10.16.2015
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Acme Oyster House is one of those old school places that been around for so long, it’s almost become synonymous with visiting New Orleans. It’s famous enough to have been featured on a multitude of food TV shows including a particularly memorable season 1 episode of Man vs Food in which Adam Richman took down their insane eating challenge and joined the 15 Dozen Club by consuming an absurd 180 raw oysters in a sitting.

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A Portal From SF to Cuba and Its Unexpected Relation to Homemade Fettuccine

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Post published:09.04.2015
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There I was, seated inside of a gold-painted shipping container, face-to-face with a live-streaming 23-year-old girl in Havana. What in the world should we talk about? First, names. Then I…

Eating a Whole Dungeness Crab Head at Swan Oyster Depot

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Post published:12.19.2014
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A Hanukkah miracle has occurred. I walked by Swan Oyster Depot when I was going out for lunch AND THERE WAS NO LINE. That just doesn’t happen. I walked right up and grabbed a seat at the bar.

Now, it’s not often I write a post about just a single dish, and it’s even less often I write about a place twice, but everything is so freaking incredible at Swan Oyster Depot that I just had to. This time, there was just one dish on my mind – not something listed on the giant menu overhead – something I saw Anthony Bourdain eating on the San Francisco episode of The Layover – a dish simply called Crab Fat.

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