News for Restaurants in San Francisco
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Alexander's Steakhouse offers prime rib every Sunday evening for only $35 per person. Cost includes a side dish and signature hamachi shooter. The restaurant opens at 5:30 p.m. Call for reservations. Alexander's Steakhouse, 448 Brannan St., San Francisco, CA 94107, 415-495-1111.
Debuted in January, 2011, chef David Bazirgan's (Boston's No. 9 Park, Baraka, Chez Papa Resto) creative and polished new American menu at Fifth Floor Restaurant & Lounge has reinvigorated interest in the high-profile dining room inside the Kimpton Group's Hotel Palomar. Bazirgan's seasonal dishes include quick, luxe bar bites for the hotel's comfortable bar and lounge to lengthy tasting menus featuring French technique and Mediterranean inflections. Dishes include a Mendocino uni and crab flan; slow cooked squab with black trumpets, bacon, root vegetables, leg confit and salmis; and Island Creek oysters five ways, including chowder, fried with rouille, and paired with béarnaise and caviar. Also new to the restaurant is general manager Scott Chilcutt, formerly manager of Gary Danko restaurant. Master sommelier Emily Wines still oversees the restaurant's extensive international list, now featuring 25 by the glass from $7-$18 each and more than 50 half bottles. Jacques Bezuidenhout's high-end contemporary cocktails also remain. Fifth Floor Restaurant & Lounge, Hotel Palomar, 12 Fourth St., San Francisco, CA 94103, 415-348-1555.
Gayot Insider Pick RN74 from Michael Mina and Rajat Parr has introduced a very happy, happy hour special. Glasses of featured red and white wine (rotating selections), select well drinks and bar snacks, including mushroom tempura and chicken croquettes, will all cost only $5 each. RN74's happy hour runs Mon.-Fri. from 3 p.m.-6 p.m., and again from 10 p.m. until close. RN74, Millennium Tower, 301 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94105, 415-543-7474.
Seasons restaurant inside the Four Seasons San Francisco hotel has announced a renewed focus on executive chef Mark Richardson's steakhouse cooking with a new menu. Four local cuts of beef---Brandt Farms dry-aged rib-eye, Hearst Ranch grass-fed filet, Prather Ranch New York strip, and Harris Ranch Angus porterhouse---are paired with creative seasonal sides and Richardson's signature, inventive and traditional sauces, including bordelaise, chimichurri and hollandaise with horseradish and thyme. Richardson's new team at Seasons includes Alex LaMotte (Per Se, Daniel, Jean Georges) as executive sous and pastry chef Jeffrey Wurtz (Essex House, L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon), who joined Seasons in late 2010. Seasons, Four Seasons San Francisco, 757 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94103, 415-633-3838.
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