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56 Gold (at Montgomery) San Francisco, CA 94102

415-433-6300

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Critics'
Pick
Best Swanky Bar
Award Winner 2010

Cuisine(s): American, California, French

Hours: Sun-Wed 5:30pm-10pm, Thu 5:30pm-11pm, Fri 11:30am-2pm, Fri-Sat 5:30pm-12am

Price: $$$, $$$$

Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards, Diners Club
Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Private Party, Catering

Serving: Dinner, Late Night, Lunch

Entertainment: Live Entertainment

Alcohol: Full bar
Reservations: Accepted, Online Reservations Available

Parking: Street, Valet

Description

Bix is San Francisco's closest approximation of a supper club, with a superb bar and very good food that ranges from tony snacks to more serious dining, including thoughtfully composed salads followed by carefully cooked fish, flesh, and fowl, and amazing desserts. Dinner is served in a soaring, luxurious two-story space, art-deco in style, with contemporary art. Live music (piano or piano with vocalist during the week, jazz trio on Friday and Saturday) contributes to the party atmosphere.

2010 | Best Swanky Bar

The operative word here is "swanky," not "elegant" or "stylish" or "dashing" but a combination of all three, with a hint of ostentatious swagger thrown in. Bix harks back to the days of the Rat Pack and Nick and Nora Charles, and midnight cocktails sipped to the rhythms of the King Cole Trio. Hidden up a brick-and-cobblestone Gold Rush alley, its interior is as opulent as a Pacific Heights mansion, but the vaulted entrance, high ceilings, and elegant pale-rose wainscoting don't overwhelm the... More »

Shrimp Cocktail at Bix Benefits Threatened Gulf Fishermen

By Jonathan Kauffman | Fri, May 28, 2010

A regular feature in which SFoodie calls a local chef to ask what he or she is putting on the menu that night, and what inspired its creation. Bix Restaurant's chef de cuisine Erik Lowe was the exec... More »
Deco Dreams

By Meredith Brody | Wed, July 28, 2004

Last year the American Museum of Natural History in New York presented a crowd-pleasing show about chocolate (titled, neatly, "Chocolate: The Exhibition"), and, not one to miss a trick, opened a special little eatery (called, with admirable restra... More »

Dinner Menu

Starters
Also Available: Caesar Salad, Bix Club Burger, Usda Prime New York Steak $48.00

$15.50

À La Minute Ceviche
with chiles, avocado and toasted corn nuts

$13.00

Little Gem Lettuce
with pickled market vegetables and ranch

$12.50

Baby Lettuces
with strawberries, marcona almonds and feta cheese

$13.75

Smoked Mcfarland Springs Trout
with fava beans, fingerling potatoes, capers and castelvetrano olives

$10.50

Zuckerman’s Farm Asparagus Soup
with lemon crème fraîche and chervil

For The Table
Also Available: Caesar Salad, Bix Club Burger, Usda Prime New York Steak $48.00

$18.50

Pacific Oysters On The Half Shell
with sauce mignonette

$9.75

Sweet Onion And Truffled Cheese Croques

$8.50

Roasted Beet And Chevre Skewers
with basil & balsamico

$12.50

Deviled Eggs
with truffles, radish and chives

$16.00

Dungeness Crab Rolls
in brioche with meyer lemon aioli

$15.00

Potato Pillows
with crème fraîche and american sturgeon caviar

$14.50

Salmon Tartare On Rye Toast
with english peas, dill and crème fraîche

$9.75

House Made Mozzarella
wrapped in la quercia prosciutto with fiordolio olive oil

$11.00

Mini Lamb Burgers
with cucumber, dill yogurt and harissa

$14.50

Steak Tartare
with shallots, capers, parsley and mustard

$16.75

Chilled Foie Gras
with spiced kumquats

$14.50

Marrow Bones St. John
15 minutes

Main Course
Also Available: Caesar Salad, Bix Club Burger, Usda Prime New York Steak $48.00

Today’s Market Fish
with hass avocado, fresh ham, delta asparagus and sugar snap peas

$28.00

Louisiana Flounder
with broccoli di ciccio, butter beans, preserved meyer lemon and espelette

$42.00

Maine Lobster Spaghetti “ala Chitarra”
with cherry tomatoes, jalapeños and basil

$21.50

Bix Chicken Hash
with mascarpone & cherry tomato sauce

$29.75

Grilled Duck Paillard
with spring onions, fingerling potatoes and foie gras sauce

$36.00

Angus Short Ribs
with marble potatoes, spring vegetables, bone marrow and pickled mustard toast

$29.50

Black Truffle Cheese Burger
served open face on rye with truffle fries

Farmers Market Vegetables
Also Available: Caesar Salad, Bix Club Burger, Usda Prime New York Steak $48.00

$8.75

Iacopi Farms Butter Beans
with broccoli di ciccio and preserved lemon

$11.75

Grilled Zuckerman’s Farm Asparagus
with yuzu chili butter

$9.50

Truffled French Fries

$9.00

Creamed Organic Bloomsdale Spinach

Dessert

$8.75

Bananas Foster
with dark rum and vanilla ice cream

$8.95

Warm Chocolate Brioche Bread Pudding

$8.50

Vanilla Crème Brûlée

$8.50

House Spun Tangerine And Blood Orange Sorbet

$8.25

Valrhona Chocolate Chip Cookies
with whipped cream

$8.95

Seascape Strawberries With Brown Sugar
whipped cream and vanilla meringue

$12.95

Trip Of Cheese
caveman blue, oregon, cow’s milk abbaye de belloc, france, sheep’s milk morbier, france, cow’s milk served with toasted walnut bread

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Bix Restaurant

56 Gold (at Montgomery) San Francisco, CA 94102

415-433-6300

Description

2010 | Best Swanky Bar

Shrimp Cocktail at Bix Benefits Threatened Gulf Fishermen

By Jonathan Kauffman | Fri, May 28, 2010

Deco Dreams

By Meredith Brody | Wed, July 28, 2004

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