From Worst to Best of San Francisco Dining

Boulevard Restaurant in San Francisco definitely lives up to its reputation and everything good written about it when it comes to food and service. 

But I enjoy it most for some of its peculiarities, like taking the elevator to the restrooms.

Or its lint discrimination policy - if you are wearing grey or light clothing, you get a white napkin; if you are wearing black or dark clothing, you get the black napkin.

With my grey suit and white napkin, I was enjoying a guava lemonade while one of my guests was enjoying an orange iced tea. The menu had many delicious options, but not all lent friendly (see somerville Lent).

Very quickly I knew this will be a far better dining experience than last night's dinner (see Tourist Trap Dinner in San Francisco).

The experience started with the Cara Cara Oranges & Medjool Dates - a very lightly dressed arugula salad served in between pieces of cara cara oranges (simply red navel oranges) and dates over a local farm's sheep ricotta.

Pistachios dressed the plate further, and all sprinkled with cocoa nib, coffee powder and tangerine syrup.

The vegetarian lunch option is a medley of accompaniments to main dishes: Gigante Beans with Mint, Green Garlic & Bean Puree; Fondant Fingerling Potatoes with Asparagus and a Dijon Mustard Dressing; a Rye Spaetzle & Rainbow Carrots with Arugula Salad; and two Potato Fritters with Buttermilk Dressing (which I resisted to respect my lent).

A highly recommended dining experience!

Boulevard Restaurant

1 Mission Street

San Francisco, CA

  www.boulevardrestaurant.com

And you must take the elevator to the restrooms (a.k.a. washrooms). If you are a female reader who ended up visiting Boulevard, please take a picture of the female restroom and email to me. I will send you a copy of Boulevard the Cookbook in return (seriously).