A Room with a View
Editor’s Note: THIS ESTABLISHMENT WILL BECOME LOEWS SAN FRANCISCO ON APRIL 14, 2015
A view of San Francisco Bay from the Mandarin Oriental hotel
by Sophie Gayot
Since the Mandarin Oriental, San Francisco is located in the third tallest commercial building in the City by the Bay, guests are sure to be getting a view—if the fog is gone. The day I went, the fog was obviously not there. And, I have to admit, I stayed in my room much longer to tour the city from my bed instead of from the streets.
At lunchtime, I arose to experience the cuisine of chef Rick Bartram at the hotel’s fine dining restaurant, Silks. There is no view from there, so diners can concentrate all of their attention on his cuisine: modern, light and elegantly spiced, blending local organic ingredients with flavors of the East where Bartram has worked in the past. Discover it below in pictures, before heading there yourselves.
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You can click on each photo to enlarge. All photos by Sophie Gayot.
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- Milk chocolate mousse with roasted marshmallow and raspberry sorbet
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- Dungeness crab with avocado
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- Passion fruit creme brulee with pomegranate sorbet and mango compote
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- Green papaya salad with pomelo and balsamic marinated fresh San Pedro sardines
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- Braised Colorado lamb shank with chick peas, grilled eggplant and tomato-pomegranate molasses
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- Char grilled mahi mahi with stir fried bok choy
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- Tandoori Sonoma quail with cucumber spaghetti and coriander dressing
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- Zinfandel and squid ink risotto with char grilled fresh California calamari
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- Chilled soba noodle salad with crunchy sesame-garlic prawns
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- A view of San Francisco Bay from the Mandarin Oriental hotel