Chez Nous - September 4
Another Top 100 restaurant in SF - Chez Nous on Fillmore!
We met Ken there before heading to the movies. This restaurant is cozy and warm - has about 40 seats and an open kitchen. The menu is small meditteranean plates though our heavier dishes were certainly large enough for personal entrees. We shared the following dishes:
Tuna tartare
Grilled calamari atop green salad
Borek - filled philo dough
Duck breast with yam puree
Grilled rib eye steak with polenta
Green beans
Panic set in just a few seconds after ordering when I saw the table next to us being served quite hefty plates of food. I'm quite particular about ordering too much or too little food when sharing small plates, or ordering family style - often it is so hard to judge just how much to order. Going to restaurants with a group of people and sharing plates can stress me out. Anyhow, with just the three of us it wasn't a big deal.
The meal turned out perfect. The server just kept bringing out dish after dish, starting with the more appetizer like plates with just a few minutes in between. Before you know it we had devoured the tuna and borek - the tuna was a heaping sashimi ball with sesame chips and quite competent. The salad quickly followed and I thought that the grilled calamari was excellent - tender, juicy pieces that were not chewy as calamari tends to be. Next came the duck and steak which were the best dishes of the night. I've only recently begun eating duck, and these were neatly sliced pieces of duck breast. As Nino said to me afterwards - "I'm glad you've come over to the dark side". I corrected him "um, don't you mean the duck side?". The yam puree was incredible - pureed yams which tasted like no artificial sweetner had been added and no cream either. The steak was also excellent - perfectly grilled to medium rare and tasty.
I'm glad we tried a new restaurant. This didn't edge out any of the Nino and Karen top 5 resturants but it was a pleasant and delicious experience.
We met Ken there before heading to the movies. This restaurant is cozy and warm - has about 40 seats and an open kitchen. The menu is small meditteranean plates though our heavier dishes were certainly large enough for personal entrees. We shared the following dishes:
Tuna tartare
Grilled calamari atop green salad
Borek - filled philo dough
Duck breast with yam puree
Grilled rib eye steak with polenta
Green beans
Panic set in just a few seconds after ordering when I saw the table next to us being served quite hefty plates of food. I'm quite particular about ordering too much or too little food when sharing small plates, or ordering family style - often it is so hard to judge just how much to order. Going to restaurants with a group of people and sharing plates can stress me out. Anyhow, with just the three of us it wasn't a big deal.
The meal turned out perfect. The server just kept bringing out dish after dish, starting with the more appetizer like plates with just a few minutes in between. Before you know it we had devoured the tuna and borek - the tuna was a heaping sashimi ball with sesame chips and quite competent. The salad quickly followed and I thought that the grilled calamari was excellent - tender, juicy pieces that were not chewy as calamari tends to be. Next came the duck and steak which were the best dishes of the night. I've only recently begun eating duck, and these were neatly sliced pieces of duck breast. As Nino said to me afterwards - "I'm glad you've come over to the dark side". I corrected him "um, don't you mean the duck side?". The yam puree was incredible - pureed yams which tasted like no artificial sweetner had been added and no cream either. The steak was also excellent - perfectly grilled to medium rare and tasty.
I'm glad we tried a new restaurant. This didn't edge out any of the Nino and Karen top 5 resturants but it was a pleasant and delicious experience.
posted by Karen at 1:53 PM
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