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El Paseo Restaurant Review

The Paseo
17 Throckmorton Ave. (E. Blithedale Ave.) Send to Phone
Mill ValleyCA 94941
415-388-0741 | Make Restaurant Reservations
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Dramatic chop house featuring upscale American comfort food, owned by celebrity chef Tyler Florence and rock star Sammy Hagar.

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Open

Dinner nightly

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Great Wine List

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With its rosy brick walls, warren of intimate dining rooms, fireplaces and a secreted-away outdoor patio, El Paseo is one of Marin’s most romantic restaurants. Under new owners, celebrity chef Tyler Florence and rock star Sammy Hagar, the restaurant has been revamped, refreshed and made downright sexy for today’s casual, conscious diners. The menu features dishes made with local, organic and seasonal ingredients as much as possible. It emphasizes everything from American comfort food to classic steakhouse fare. Crab cakes show a hint of New Orleans style in their spicy rémoulade sauce. Hash brown potatoes cooked in duck fat and served in miniature cast iron ramekins may be the best potatoes in Marin. As for the proteins, you can go small and relatively inexpensive, with a plush, house-ground burger of natural beef, or all-out-sumptuous with a 24-ounce free-range rib-eye steak for two, complete with marrow bone. Chairs are so comfortable, and the ambience so cosseting, you might want to settle in for a day or two.

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Average rating    5
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Great French restaurant
by snd on 03/10/2009
 
Quality restaurant at the bargain price($1/3 of Mina or Cyrus) in the category of fine dining.
Top rating on Open Table review was true, great service and wine list.
:D
 
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