Coi Restaurant Review
373 Broadway (Montgomery St.) 
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San Francisco, CA 94133
415-393-9000 | Make Restaurant Reservations | Menu
Coi Restaurant is one of our 2012
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Cuisine
Open
Dinner Tues.-Sat.Features
- Romantic setting
- Private room(s)
- Reservations suggested
- Valet parking & parking lot
- Dressy
Wine
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 Traditionally, oysters Rockefeller are baked on the half-shell with butter, greens and breadcrumbs. At Daniel Patterson's Coi, the dish is broken down into components: a jellied horseradish sheet wrapped around a naked raw oyster with a vegetable mignonette and puréed spinach. When the elements mingle, the tongue senses foam, salt and movement --- truly an ocean, not a cliché. One can experience each dish as a whole, or chase clean flavors resonating from individual ingredients. Spinach, for example, is usually not known for its allure, but here a bright quenelle-shaped morsel tastes as though acres of the loveliest leaves have been harvested for its creation. Dinner is intense and beautifully paced, and triumphs arrive one after another: “beets roasted in hay,” sheep’s milk and cress; Monterey Bay abalone with heirloom chicories and shellfish sauce; lamb, raw almond and wheatgrass, seeds and grains. Desserts follow suit, with wonderfully composed plates simultaneously bold and restrained, such as citron, frozen lime marshmallow and gin candies. Apéritifs, a wide-ranging array of wines by the glass, half-bottle and bottle, as well as dessert wines and saké are available. Without a whiff of gimmicky experimentation, Coi re-imagines California cuisine, acknowledging the sanctified emphasis on ingredients that many area chefs embrace, but also showing a willingness to challenge and invent in an appropriately hushed atmosphere.
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