Thursday, February 11, 2010

Foreign Cinema

2534 Mission St
San Francisco, CA 94110

Occasion: Dine about town!


Smoked Salmon
with chick pea hummus, radishes, shaved fennel, creme fraiche, Turkish pepper
It was really thinly sliced, which I like. The chickpea hummus was full of flavor and went perfectly with the smoked salmon. We cut pieces of the smoked salmon and placed it on top of the complimentary bread they provided. On top of the salmon we added the chickpea hummus, which was absolutely delish. It's a must get appetizer that will not fail to please your taste buds. YUM!

Natural beef carpaccio
with mache, farm egg, fried capers, waffled potatoes
Another great appetizer that we ordered! Love it when its thinly sliced. One of my favorite places that I've had carpaccio. The meat itself was full of flavor, not like a lot of the other places where I've had it. In Vietnamese restaurants I'm used to the sweet flavor of the fish sauce drenched in lemon juice and onions and cilantro. Beef carpaccio at Italian restaurants are a bit too tangy in flavor for me. It lacks flavor. But I love it here!! Maybe its the waffled potatoes that add flavors to the carpaccio or the flavor of the farm egg. It was absolutely delicious.

Pan-fried Pacific true cod
with fingerling potatoes, Napa cabbage slaw, sauce gribiche
This was offered on the dine about town menu that night. Delicious. Although I'm not a big fan of pan fried fish, this was very tasty. The skin was fried to the perfect golden brown. The fingerling potatoes lacked a little bit in flavor, but I still enjoyed it. I love starchy foods and I love potatoes. I wish there were more pieces served. Not too big of a fan of the cabbage slaw.

Madras curry fried chicken
with apple chickory greens, Capay farms sweet potato mash
While we were waiting to be seated, I could have sworn that almost every table had a serving of this dish. It looked really appetizing and we decided to get one to try. It's not just regular fried chicken, it was curry fried chicken. It was so different and so good. I also loved the sweet potato mash.

Rose Creme Brulee
I loved that it was a rose flavor. It made the dessert taste more refreshing. Definitely something different and it makes the dessert taste less rich. Worth giving a try. We enjoyed the dessert.




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