Americano Restaurant & Bar
8 Mission St. (Embarcadero) 
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Breakfast daily, Lunch Mon.-Fri., Dinner Mon.-Sat.Features
- Valet parking
- Dress code: Casual dressy
- Full bar
- Outdoor dining
- Reservations suggested
- Romantic setting
- View
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: Hugging the side of the Hotel Vitale, with a spacious outdoor dining area and water views, Americano Restaurant & Bar offers better-than-hotel restaurant dining that stands on its own. The Italian-influenced California cuisine puts an emphasis on house-made elements and locally sourced offerings. Bites to start include a feta piquillo dip served with flatbread that packs a lot of spice and heat. Local fish, from albacore to halibut and pan-roasted cod, are good bets --- thoughtfully accompanied, as with the cod's crisped black trumpet mushrooms, and pleasantly plated. Awareness of detail comes through particularly in the rib-eye, where the excessive marbling of fat has been removed and the meat reconstructed in a spiral, leaving only the flesh and losing none of the flavor. Wines ordered by the glass come in mini-carafes. Smaller-portioned desserts for tables eager to share is a nice touch. Situated between the Financial District's busy corridors and the tourist-clogged Embarcadero, this place hosts splashy corporate happy hours and business lunches as well as exhausted hotel guests. Many such establishments gamely deign to tackle a diversity of occasions; Americano is rare in that it does so while remaining, almost surprisingly, a very good restaurant. |
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