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12 Fourth St. (at Stevenson), in the Hotel Palomar San Francisco, CA 94103

415-348-1555

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Best Restaurant
Award Winner 2002

Cuisine(s): New American

Hours: Tue-Sat 5:30pm-10pm

Price: $$$$

Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards
Attire: Fancy

Features: Private Party, Wheelchair Accessible, Coat Check

Serving: Dinner

Alcohol: Full bar
Reservations: Accepted, Recommended

Parking: Garage, Valet

Description

Impeccable service, sleekly sumptuous interior design, and a luscious menu of New American delicacies combine to create a swellegant getaway right in the middle of downtown SF. The house cuisine showcases truffles, lobster tail, and other lush ingredients with fresh, inventive élan. Enjoy a libation in the handsome earth-toned bar, or let the roving cocktail cart serve you at your table. (Carts laden with artisan breads and cheeses roam about as well.) The chocolate-bronze Japanese-inspired setting is lovely indeed.

2002 | Best Restaurant

George Morrone's departure from the Fifth Floor last year raised concerns about the venue's culinary future, but under new Executive Chef Laurent Gras the food is better than ever. The menu is arranged into categories (Farm, Ocean, Field & Forest) that exemplify Gras' respect for fresh, natural flavors and textures, and his culinary inclinations are wonderfully creative as well. Examples from his spring menu include wild halibut braised with watercress, trumpet mushrooms, and champagne;... More »
2000 | Best Place to Don Pinstripes and Exude Latent Power

You may not have a home in Pacific Heights and a summer place at Emerald Bay and a chauffeur to tend to your two Mercedes and Junior's Alfa Spider, but at the Fifth Floor you can pretend you do -- and the maitre d', chef, bartender, and busboys will encourage the fantasy. When you emerge from the Palomar Hotel's elevator into the Japanese-accented foyer, make your requisite stop at the clubby, handsome bar for a Bombay Sapphire martini, then settle in for a long and pleasurable evening... More »

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By Jonathan Kauffman | Mon, March 19, 2012

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By Lou Bustamante | Fri, March 16, 2012

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By Jonathan Kauffman | Thu, August 11, 2011

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ian7791 | San Francisco, CA | 16 Reviews

| Tue, April 14, 2009

The Fifth Floor is a wonderful quiet lounge bar, right downtown, a block from Moscone, with an excellent selection of whiskeys, and top notch appetizers with excellent sauces. Come on Wednesday for their whiskey tasting flights. Try the Hudson Rye if you haven't had the pleasure.

Dinner Menu

One

$16.00

Hamachi Crudo
avocado, plum, yuzu kosho, white shoyu, ponzu, lemon basil, shiso

$13.00

Roasted Gold Beets
compressed strawberries, red beet sorbet, feta, garam masala, pistachio tuile

$13.00

Heirloom Cucumber Salad
crème frâiche, za’atar , sungold tomatoes, wild herbs, green almonds, black olives

$17.00

Geoduck, Surf And Razor Clam Ceviche
compressed honeydew, charred scallion, lime, cilantro, radish blossoms , bergamot oil

$20.00

Misty Point Oysters Five Ways
béarnaise and caviar, fried with rouille, cucumber granite, chowder, mignonette

Two

$15.00

Mendocino Uni Flan
dungeness crab fondue, saffron, sichuan pepper, aged kaffir lime

$22.00

Hot And Cold Foie Gras
rhubarb in three textures, challah toast, almonds, sauternes gelee

$14.00

Potato Gnocchi
zucchini and their flowers, braised rabbit, green olives, castelmagno

$18.00

Maine Lobster Agnolotti
peas, guanciale, sierra nevada cream cheese, piment d’espelette

$14.00

Brillat-savarin Ravioli
chanterelles, sage, brown butter, mizuna, pistou, hazelnuts

Three

$29.00

New Bedford Diver Scallops
pickled chanterelles, corn three ways, padron pepper, bacon, chervil

$31.00

Olive Oil Poached Alaskan Halibut
saffron-roasted tomato, summer legumes, black garlic persillade, green olive caviar

$29.00

Roasted Ocean Trout
chorizo, manila clams, sea beans, okinawa potatoes, lemongrass-ginger emulsion

$35.00

Marrow Crusted Veal Loin
mustard spaëtzle, artichokes, summer truffle, baby turnips, sweetbreads, licorice

$35.00

Fallon Hills Ranch Spring Lamb
cauliflower, couscous, argan oil, ras al hanout, strauss yogurt, golden raisins, lamb jus

$30.00

Berkshire Pork Shoulder And Belly
mustard greens, calypso beans, bourbon, peach, peanut, douglas fir-ham hock jus

$29.00

Tamarind Laquered Duck Breast
thai green curry, turmeric pickled papaya, toasted rice glass, gai lan, galangal sausage

$35.00

Sake Lees Kobe Beef
braised cheek, confit shimejis, eggplant, beet, gobo root, hato mugi, mitsuba

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Fifth Floor

12 Fourth St. (at Stevenson), in the Hotel Palomar San Francisco, CA 94103

415-348-1555

Description

2002 | Best Restaurant

2000 | Best Place to Don Pinstripes and Exude Latent Power

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ian7791 | San Francisco, CA | 16 Reviews