Farina Focaccia & Cucina Italiana Restaurant Review
3560 18th St. (Dearborn St.) 
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San Francisco, CA 94110
415-565-0360 | Make Restaurant Reservations | Menu
Cuisine
Open
Dinner nightly, Brunch Sun.Features
- Private room(s)
- Full bar
- Reservations suggested
- Outdoor dining
- Casual
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 Stepping into Farina reveals an elegant bar, perfect for negroni sipping, and a large and contemporary dining room. This sophisticated, minimal setting is perfect for showing off the food. Farina features Ligurian fare, and most people visit for two dishes. Mandilli di seta al pesto struffuggae is a hand-made handkerchief pasta with Genovese basil pesto. Focaccia di Recco, oozing stracchino cheese melted between two layers of thin bread, hails from Recco in Liguria, Italy; we guarantee it will forever change how you think of this normally oversize, overstuffed yeasty bread. Plates are big, prices even bigger (antipasti average $14, primi $18), and portions not quite so big. An exception is the liberal two-inch filet mignon, coated in a rich, sweet, chocolate-hued salsa al balsamico. The short list of Italian wines features options by the glass, quarter, half liter and bottle. (Photo by Cesar Rubio)
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