B Star Bar serves Asian style comfort foods with flavors from Thailand, China, Burma, India and Japan. It is the sister restaurant of popular Burma Superstar Burmese restaurant and is located a couple blocks from it.

Decor, Vibe - Clean modern Asian oriented decor. Small bar area. Some families, couples, and mostly people in the 30’s and 40’s were dining.

Menu Pictures

Menu Cover

Appetizer, Soup, Salads Menu

Drink Menu

Dessert Menu

Picks:

Vegetarian Samusa Soup ($7, small) Burmese soup with flafals, lentils, cabbage, potatoes was delicious, especially the samusa. A little too many potatoes. Slightly spicy, not a lot of broth. Good quantity for even the small size order.

Pork and White Beans ($13.50) had tender braised pork belly with jasmine rice, white beans, and bok choy. The meat was delicious and not very fatty. The rice absorbed the meat juice and tasted very good. Not a lot of beans.

Grilled Calamari ($8) with cherry tomatoes, edamame, shallots, peanuts in a basil vinaigrette had chewy calamari, but very good greenish broth that goes well with rice.

Black Rice Pudding ($6.75) with coconut ice cream, cream, strawberries and sesame seeds had a big slab of very warm rice pudding. Very good ice cream and moist pudding made it a good balanced combination.

OK:

Portabello Veggie Fresh Spring Roll ($7.75) with tofu, basil, mint, cucumber, carrots and a very good peanut sauce. Without the sauce, the rolls were pretty tasteless. Good for vegetarians.

Wild Rice Salad ($9.50) Hijiki with pickled gobo, avocado, cilantro, cabbage, cucumbers, and pepitos with Grilled portabello mushrooms had a small amount of mushroom and lots of brown rice. Flavors were good and this dish was very healthy entree.

Mango Mojito ($7) was made with Soju and not vodka. A little on the weak side, but very fruity. Soju added a slight after taste.

Pans:
None

B Star Bar had very good service that was friendly and had no issues. The food is Asian fusion fare with good quantities and fresh ingredients.
Prices are reasonable make this an easy choice if you are nearby looking for a decent meal. Clementine across the street is also a very good restaurant.

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Namu is a stylish pan Asian small plates restaurant and lounge in the middle of a residential area’s business corridor. It would seem almost more at home south of market as they have live music and dj sounds Thursday - Saturday. They are ‘Inspired by Korean and Japanese ingredients, philosophy and techniques’. Lots of local and organic ingredients.

Vibe, Decor - Modern asian minimalist style with lots of wood.  Eaters included some locals, some small groups and couples in their 30’s-40’s.

Menu pics

Dessert menu

Drink Menu

Wine, Soju Menu

Picks:

Free Kimchee

Daikon Medallion ($9) - Is almost like a soup/stew hybrid with dashi braised daikon and oxtail meat.
Real yummy, especially on rice.  Quantity is low though, could have used a double order.

Jumbo chicken wings ($10) - Six crispy Fulton valley chicken wings with sweet chili dipping sauce.
Hot off the grill, very delicious especially with the sauce. Wish there were more. The wings at Sun Tong in San Francisco are still a little better and far higher in quantity.

Bi bim kooksoo salad ($9) - Cold soba noodles, chopped romaine, kimchee, pine nuts, tofu, cucumber
with kimchee sesame dressing. A nice refreshing starter with dressing that was not too spicy.  Decent quantity.

Black cod ($18) - Denjang saikyo miso marinated, line–caught bodega bay black cod was actually Sea Bass today. Cooked very well, teriyaki like sauce, a good bigger plate. Cod is a notoriously good way to judge a kitchen’s prowess.

Adzuki red bean cupcake ($6) - Adzuki red bean and chocolate cupcake served with yuzu creme anglaise.
Tiny cupcake, but very delicious. It could have used a scoop of ice cream on the side.

Kabocha chawan mushi ($7) - Silky coconut custard baked in a kabocha squash served warm
with a browned coconut milk and ginger reduction. This is an acquired taste as it isn’t too sweet, squash with a custard is not most people’s idea of dessert. It was good. Better quantities than the cupcake.

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Crudo ($12) - Halibut, lemon, sake and ponzu infused battera konbu, fleur de sel, olive oil, garlic chili oil.
Tasty and beautiful, but too small for the price. Sauce could have been better.

Broccolini ($7) - Decent quantities of this broccoli variant. Little heavy with the yuzu ponzu sauce.

Okra ($6) - It is cooked with saikyo miso aioli. Tasty but very small dish. Kind of messy looking with all the sauce.

Yakitori ($11) - Had four Fulton valley chicken thigh skewers, sansho pepper, housemade teriyaki, shichimi.
Good quality, heavy charcoal grill favor. Decent sauce.

Portobello Mushroom ($8) - Garlic, kurosu reduction. Decent quantity, cooked perfectly, very tasty with vinegar accent. Looked great too.

Strong Soju

Pans:

Scallops ($14) - Four Hokkaido scallops, cucumber, ginger chili garlic sauce. Undercooked scallops and not crispy enough glaze.  The sauce was way too super hot.

The service was above average, with attendants floating by every so often. The food looked very good.
A problem was that quantities were so low on many dishes.  We had to hit about $35 a person without alcohol. There were some cheap wines by the glass for $6. With this place being out of the way, we’d need more reasons to come back.
There are some good dishes here which could be fashioned into a lite meal or perhaps consider lunch instead. The small plates at asian/french restaurant Isa in San Francisco are a better bet. Also consider Terzo for good tapas.

The Russian bakery across the street has some nice hot bread loaves around 6pm, so be sure to check it out.