San Francisco offers numerous arts venues and nearby dining choices for pre- or post-performance meals. Absinthe, a French-inspired restaurant at Hayes and Gough, provides efficient service for patrons with showtimes, consistently high-quality food, impeccable service, and notable craft cocktails; recommended orders include Petrale sole meuniere, a medium-priced chablis, and chocolate pot de crème. Hayes Street Grill specializes in straightforward seafood preparations with very fresh fish, a selection of sauces, excellent French fries, and a crème brulée praised alongside New York's Odeon. Happy Crane is a newcomer helmed by chef James Yeun Leong Parry offering contemporary Hong Kong snacks and Peking-style dishes.
I've been known to be an "artsy fartsy" type. Even though I prefer the term "aesthete," I fully embrace it. If there's a symphony concert, ballet performance, cabaret act, jazz gig, modern dance troupe, opera staging, or even a lecture, I'm there. Lucky for us, living in San Francisco, there are a multitude of artistic options nightly from which to choose. Now that it's fall, it's time for the arts season to begin anew.
First off, they know how to get you in and out in time for the show. Second, the food quality is always consistently good and the service impeccable. Plus, they practically invented the art of the craft cocktail. Insider's tip: order the Petrale sole meuniere, a bottle of a medium-priced chablis, and their famous chocolate pot de crème, and you'll be a happy camper.
Another venerable institution just steps from the Symphony Hall is the Hayes Street Grill. Patricia Unterman's no-frills homage to all things from the sea has some of the freshest fish, grilled to perfection, with your choice of tantalizing sauces. Her French fries are among the best in town, and the crème brulée is even as good as New York's Odeon.
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