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701 Columbus (at Filbert) San Francisco, CA 94133

415-981-4664

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Critics'
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Best Gnocchi
Award Winner 2003

Cuisine(s): Italian

Hours: Tue-Sat 6pm-9:30pm

Price: $$, $$$, $$$$
Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa, cash

Attire: Casual.

Features: Private Party
Serving: Dinner

Reservations: Accepted, Required for Large Parties

Parking: Street

Description

Tiny, romantic spot combines funky decor and friendly, casual service with Italian food that rivals anything in North Beach. Superb home-baked focaccia topped with kosher salt leads to flawless appetizers and pastas. Extensive Italian wine list; excellent, homemade desserts.

2003 | Best Gnocchi

Anyone who's ever attempted to make gnocchi, the tiny Italian dumplings that have been eaten and enjoyed since the days of Imperial Rome, knows how easy it is to end up with something resembling small pellets of lumpy concrete. This never happens at Da Flora, a cozy, candlelit ostaria draped in wrought iron and red velvet, where the gnocchi are light as a cloud. Although gnocchi can be made of potatoes, semolina, flour, spinach, or some combination of the above, the main ingredient in Da... More »
2001 | Best Gnocchi

The handwritten menu at North Beach's cozy Da Flora changes often, with one exception -- owner Flora Gaspar's "signature" sweet potato gnocchi. In fact, according to Flora, attempts to change the sauce the gnocchi are served with have been met with fierce opposition by regular customers, meaning (to us, at least) that the dish has reached the apex of culinary perfection. Subtly sweet, sublimely melting, served with a decadent sherry-cream sauce and rich, smoky bacon, these gnocchi will take... More »

Readings and Eatings

By Meredith Brody | Wed, May 21, 2003

Looking for a pay phone after attending Amanda Hesser's reading last week at A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, I saw that the new Fellini documentary was just about to start on one of the Opera Plaza screens. I took it as a sign; if I'd planne... More »
In Full Bloom

By Greg Hugunin | Wed, March 07, 2001

My friend John had one of those truth-is-stranger-than-fiction kind of nights. I won't go into all the details, but by the time it was over he had been driven at gunpoint to the East Bay (the only way I'd go), leapt from a speeding car onto the Ba... More »

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Da Flora

701 Columbus (at Filbert) San Francisco, CA 94133

415-981-4664

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2003 | Best Gnocchi

2001 | Best Gnocchi

Readings and Eatings

By Meredith Brody | Wed, May 21, 2003

In Full Bloom

By Greg Hugunin | Wed, March 07, 2001

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