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Below, find my picks for the best special occasion restaurants that the Bay Area has to offer. Madcap, from chef Ron Siegel, opens today (August 17) in Marin’s quaint enclave of San Anselmo. And don’t miss out on Merchant Roots, a San Francisco restaurant that masters both the arts of haute cuisine and participatory theater.įor this update, I’ve winnowed down the list to places that specialize in tasting or omakase menus. At Saison, the kitchen sends out skewered duck gizzards next to gorgeously cooked breast at Noodle in a Haystack, you’re asked to consider what it might take to make a bowl of ramen truly transcendent.Īnother thing I value in high-end restaurants is service that doesn’t make you feel like an interloper the Shota, for example, is a sushi bar that’s the liveliest omakase in San Francisco. Owner & Chef Ron Siegel uses organic and farm raised products. I found that in the right hands, the experience can still transport you: The restaurants on this list don’t just indulge the diner - they surprise and challenge the palate as well. MADCAP offers upscale dining in an intimate yet casual setting with an urban feel. Though the genre waned during the leaner times of the pandemic, fine dining has eased back into action. Thanks to the wine industry and the tech boom’s wave of new money, fine dining has become a key part of the Bay Area’s culinary reputation.
To that end, I visited many of the high-end restaurants in the Bay Area to find out what’s actually worth the price tag. It’s here that a critic is most valuable, I’d say, because a bad slice of pizza is much easier to laugh off than a bad $200 meal. For most people, a meal at a fine dining restaurant is a heavy investment - so it’d better be good. The nature of a splurge is that you’re not going there every day: It’s a meal you save up for so you can celebrate something special.
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