Be sure to read Boulevard: The Cookbook

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The Slanted Door is a famous modern Vietnamese restaurant located in San Francisco’s Ferry Building. Legendary chef Charles Phan’s empire includes several Out the Door restaurants, Wo Hing General Store, now shuttered Moss Room in Golden gate Park, as well as Heaven’s Dog. They use a lot of local, organic, sustainable ingredients and focus on essentially California cuisine with the Vietnamese influence.

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Shanghai 1930 closed at the end of 2009.

Shanghai 1930 is a fancy Chinese restaurant and bar in the Embarcadero area. They focus on Shanghainese Chinese food and try to replicate Shanghai China in the 1930′s. They have free live Jazz Monday through Saturday evenings. We’ve eaten here several times and find the food expensive and average. Coming to the bar for Jazz, Cocktails, and some small nibbles is what we prefer to do. Read the rest of this entry »

Waterbar is a seafood restaurant located strategically on the San Francisco waterfront. It has extra ordinary views and is next door to the steakhouse restaurant Epic Roasthouse. They are both part of the vast Kuleto Restaurant empire.
The chef Mark Franz also runs Farallon and Nick’s Cove. Waterbar has several meat entrees forced to come here. The use local and sustainable seafood. Read the rest of this entry »

Epic Roasthouse is a steak house located strategically on the San Francisco waterfront. It has extra ordinary views and is next door to the seafood restaurant Water Bar. They are both part of the vast Kuleto Restaurant empire. They dry age their steaks for 28 days.
Decor, Vibe – Pat Kuleto is a master restaurant designer and has created Boulevard, Jardinere and many other restaurants. This place has an old school clubby atmosphere with a seawater pump house theme and an upstairs bar area. Well dressed businessmen and others in their 40′s – 60′s were dining.

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