Sea Harbour Seafood Restaurant is one of best Chinese restaurants in Southern California, according to several different sources. We have been to the Sea Harbour Vancouver, Canada location and to a location in Guangzhou, China, and had solid meals there, so it was a no brainer to come here. This restaurant group has about 30 locations in China. Sea Harbor serves dim sum during lunch, and traditional Cantonese dishes at dinner time. Read the rest of this entry »

Why did we dine here? – Newport Tan Cang is a Vietnamese-Chinese restaurant located in San Gabriel. This restaurant is highly rated on Yelp and is listed on the top Chinese restaurant of the USA list. We were recently in southern California and wanted to try some of the better restaurants and had this place on our short list.

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Why did we dine here? – Bar Tartine has been on our hit list ever since Mr. Bauer extolled the virtues of this restaurant a couple weeks back. We are big fans of the sister location, Tartine Bakery. There haven’t been many new Hungarian, Eastern European restaurants lately, so this was a refreshing change of pace from another California cuisine restaurant. Chef Nicolaus Balla took over in January 2011 and has moved Bar Tartine forward. The restaurant is loud and interior decor rough, but the food is exciting.

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Why did we dine here? – Casserole House is a Korean restaurant in Oakland’s Korea town area. We have been slowly sampling different restaurants in this area.

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Why did we dine here? – Yankee Pier by chef Bradley Ogden is a New England style seafood restaurant with several locations in the San Francisco Bay Area. We had dined at the Santana Row location long ago and decided to give it another try.

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Why did we dine here? – Restaurant Mitsunobu is a new restaurant from Owner Chef Mitsunobu and Executive Chef Aoki. They serve “traditional Japanese cuisine inspired by California.” Kaygetsu was located here previously. This restaurant focuses on local and seasonal ingredients.

Insider Tip – Lunch is cheaper.

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Why did we dine here? – State Bird Provisions has generated lots of positive buzz from Bauer to fellow food bloggers, with its excellent food and unique dim sum cart like serving system. 4.5 stars on Yelp.
They describe their cuisine as “An adventurous, inventive, delicious, thoughtful contemporary American restaurant [CA native].”
Stuart Brioza & Nicole Krasinski (Rubicon) are the chef owners and have created a hit. The restaurant is down the block from The Fillmore. Stroll over to Japantown afterwords to burn off those calories.

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Aziza is a one Michelin star restaurant in San Francisco’s sleepy Richmond district run by executive chef Mourad Lahlou. They focus on organic, local, and sustainable ingredients. His modern reinventions of traditional Moroccan dishes has garnered him much acclaim. Pastry chef Melissa Chou is also legendary.

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Mission Chinese Food is a restaurant in San Francisco’s Mission District that shares space with Lung Shan restaurant. Mission Chinese Food even shares their chef, when things are busy. You can order off either restaurant’s menu.

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Michael Bauer’s 2012 Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants has been published. The annual list from the Foodie god, concentrates on fine dining restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area. We notice that they’re a lot more restaurants in the North Bay and very few restaurants on the San Francisco Peninsula, very few Ethnic places such as Asian and Indian restaurants. For the most part, we would agree with him. Be sure to read our Foodnut Best Restaurant List

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