Slow Club July 9
There's nothing better than kicking back on a Friday night with amazing food and drink at Slow Club. After a long week at work (ok, it was only 4 days this week), Sante knows how to do it up right!
For those of you who don't know, Sante is the chef at Slow Club and a friend of ours. His wife Sarah, who works there on Friday and Saturday nights, goes to school with Nino. This restaurant is tops on my list. The "kitchen" is a small open space within the restaurant which means that everything is brought in fresh daily and you can tell! The menu changes daily too. Prices are completely reasonable for this fresh California fare.
The only issue I have with the restaurant is that it isn't the place for a quiet dinner - the restaurant is always packed and often noisy. People come in for drinks at the bar, it's a cool hangout and a place to be seen, which means that it can be hard to have a conversation without having to speak loudly. This is the only drawback ...
It was great to see Sante and Sarah - they're always so nice to us when we go in there. We started our evening by ordering Mojitos - refreshing, minty drinks that we could sip like juice! Sarah brought us the Truffled Zucchini Salad to start with which she said is her favorite - thin slices of julienned zucchini, with pine nuts and ricotta salata mixed with truffle oil. Yum! I couldn't resist ordering the Summer Melon Salad too because it sounded so intersting - cantaloupe, watermelon, honeydew with kalamata olives and chili vinaigrette. The salad followed Thai cooking principles - sweet, salty, spicy, sour - all combined. It was excellent.
For our main courses, Nino ordered the Grilled King Salmon which was done just perfectly with a salsa verde served with a ratatouille that had so much flavor. I ordered the Curry Scented Skate Wing after finding out that skate is a member of the ray family and the meat comes from its wings - the taste and texture is similar to scallops. The skate was a heaping portion served atop green beans, heirloom tomatoes and fingerling potatoes and everything was completely delicious. We had a glass of Viognier with dinner that we shared.
For dessert, (yes, somehow I saved just a little room for dessert) we had a peach upside-down cake with berry compote. The cake itself was light and not too sweet, but the peaches were incredibly sweet and delicious. The entire meal start to finish was epic!
We made a date to see Sante and Sarah outside the restaurant, hopefully to check out another restaurant on the Top 100 of SF list.
For those of you who don't know, Sante is the chef at Slow Club and a friend of ours. His wife Sarah, who works there on Friday and Saturday nights, goes to school with Nino. This restaurant is tops on my list. The "kitchen" is a small open space within the restaurant which means that everything is brought in fresh daily and you can tell! The menu changes daily too. Prices are completely reasonable for this fresh California fare.
The only issue I have with the restaurant is that it isn't the place for a quiet dinner - the restaurant is always packed and often noisy. People come in for drinks at the bar, it's a cool hangout and a place to be seen, which means that it can be hard to have a conversation without having to speak loudly. This is the only drawback ...
It was great to see Sante and Sarah - they're always so nice to us when we go in there. We started our evening by ordering Mojitos - refreshing, minty drinks that we could sip like juice! Sarah brought us the Truffled Zucchini Salad to start with which she said is her favorite - thin slices of julienned zucchini, with pine nuts and ricotta salata mixed with truffle oil. Yum! I couldn't resist ordering the Summer Melon Salad too because it sounded so intersting - cantaloupe, watermelon, honeydew with kalamata olives and chili vinaigrette. The salad followed Thai cooking principles - sweet, salty, spicy, sour - all combined. It was excellent.
For our main courses, Nino ordered the Grilled King Salmon which was done just perfectly with a salsa verde served with a ratatouille that had so much flavor. I ordered the Curry Scented Skate Wing after finding out that skate is a member of the ray family and the meat comes from its wings - the taste and texture is similar to scallops. The skate was a heaping portion served atop green beans, heirloom tomatoes and fingerling potatoes and everything was completely delicious. We had a glass of Viognier with dinner that we shared.
For dessert, (yes, somehow I saved just a little room for dessert) we had a peach upside-down cake with berry compote. The cake itself was light and not too sweet, but the peaches were incredibly sweet and delicious. The entire meal start to finish was epic!
We made a date to see Sante and Sarah outside the restaurant, hopefully to check out another restaurant on the Top 100 of SF list.
posted by Karen at 11:28 AM
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