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800 N. Point (at Hyde) San Francisco, CA 94109

415-749-2060

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Critics'
Pick
Best Restaurant
Award Winner 2000

Cuisine(s): French, New American

Hours: Daily 5:30pm-10pm

Price: $$$$

Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa, Discover, Diners Club, cash
Attire: Business casual

Features: Delivery, Private Party, Business Dining, Prix Fixe

Serving: Dinner

Alcohol: Full bar
Reservations: Accepted, Highly Recommended, Online Reservations Available

Parking: Street, Valet

Description

One of San Francisco's most famous and honored restaurants, named after its award-winning chef-owner, Gary Danko offers prix-fixe meals from its long and tempting seasonally changing menu. There are appetizers, fish and seafood dishes, meat and game birds, an amazing cheese cart, and desserts. Choose whether you want three, four, or five courses, as many as you like from each category, and they'll size them appropriately (you could try three starters and then a cheese course, if you so desired). Everything will be exquisitely prepared and served, in a charmingly formal (but not lugubrious) setting. There's an impressive wine and spirits list that suits the food. And, though by no means cheap, the tariff seems reasonable for what you're receiving.

2000 | Best Restaurant

You sit down at the tiny bar, slightly disappointed that the surroundings aren't as elegant as they were at Chef Danko's last showcase, the Dining Room. Then you get into the lively, friendly rhythm of the place and you realize that although it may not be as finely appointed as, say, the Fifth Floor, Restaurant Gary Danko is more fun. Once you're seated, an amuse-bouche of silky asparagus-basil soup with morsels of lobster is offered for consumption, after which the affably elegant maitre... More »

Our Ultimate Mash-Up Mother's Day Meal in San Francisco

By Tamara Palmer | Tue, May 8, 2012

Like Valentine's Day and Easter before it, Mother's Day can be a particularly annoying holiday for us food blogger worker bees. The endless pap of press releases touting how kind the restaurant indust... More »
Virginity Lost at Gary Danko

By Meredith Brody | Wed, May 27, 2009

The restaurant Gary Danko opened in 1999, and in 2000 the James Beard Foundation named it America's best new restaurant. It's always on the short list of the best places to eat in S.F. But in 2009, when high-ticket palaces of gastronomy seem exces... More »
Side Dish

By Harry Coverte | Wed, February 02, 2000

Danko SchönGary Danko is seeing stars -- five of them, to be exact -- bestowed upon his dining room on North Point by The Mobil Guide. Only 42 such awards (that's a grand total of 210 little pointed sparklers) were handed out nationwide, and t... More »
Unalloyed Pleasure

By Paul Adams | Wed, December 15, 1999

Those of us who followed chef Gary Danko from the glorious Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton, where he received a James Beard award, through his unsatisfying stint at Viognier, the restaurant atop Draeger's supermarket, arrive at his new, eponymous ... More »

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Andrew Johann | San Francisco, CA | 4 Reviews

| Mon, January 3, 2011

The perfect EVERYTHING~

Main Menu

Appetizers

Potato-leek Soup
with crème fraîche, salmon-crab fritter and bacon

Risotto
with lobster, rock shrimp, shimeji mushrooms, and butternut squash

Dungeness Crab Salad
with quinoa, fennel, mint, grapefruit and yuzu remoulade

Salad Of Baby Beets
duck prosciutto, goat cheese truffles and hazelnut vinaigrette

Lobster Salad
with avocado, citrus, shaved fennel, baby artichokes and mustard-tarragon vinaigrette

Salad With Quail Eggs
speck, parmigiano-reggiano and red onion-caper vinaigrette

Crispy Farm Egg
with white polenta, royal trumpet mushrooms, frisée and pancetta

Seared Ahi Tuna
with avocado, nori, enoki mushrooms and lemon soy dressing

Glazed Oysters
with osetra caviar, salsify and lettuce cream

Savory Tart
with butternut squash, cipollini onions, sage and goat cheese mousse

Fish And Seafood

Horseradish Crusted Salmon Medallion
with dilled cucumbers and mustard sauce

Striped Bass
with speck, gnocchi, butternut squash, crimini mushrooms, capers and sage

Seared Sea Scallops
with butternut squash purée, shimeji mushrooms, apples, caramelized cauliflower and tarragon

Coconut Thai Curry
with lemongrass, calamari, lobster, scallops, scallions and shiitake mushrooms

Nicoise Olive And Herb Crusted Tuna
with braised fennel, pine nuts, zucchini and lemon emulsion

Roast Maine Lobster
with potato puree, chanterelle mushrooms, corn and tarragon

Herb Crusted Tuna
with citrus braised endive, sunchoke purée and anchovy essence

Branzini
with fennel puree, niçoise olives, and saffron-orange emulsion

Meat And Game Birds

Guinea Hen Breast
with spaghetti squash, bacon and apple sausage and tamarind glaze

Seared Filet Of Beef
with bacon-potato "risotto", cassis-shallot marmalade and stilton butter

Herb Crusted Lamb Loin
with cannellini beans, braised lamb shoulder, barley and cumin mint yogurt

Quail Stuffed
with foie gras, mushrooms, quinoa, savoy cabbage, cipollini-pecan chutney and a bread dumpling

Juniper Crusted Bison
with braised red cabbage, cipollini onions, chestnut spaetzle, tangerines and cranberries

Roasted Pork Belly And Tenderloin
with brussels sprouts, apples, parsnip purée and maple-cider reduction

Moroccan Spiced Squab
with raisins, almonds, chermoula and orange-cumin carrots

Lemon Pepper Duck Breast
with duck hash, celery-root purée and cardamom poached pears

Caviar Service
1 Ounce

$95.00

Black Sea Osetra
with buckwheat blini

$125.00

Golden Osetra
with buckwheat blini

Dessert

Seasonal Sorbet Sampler
with cookies

Trio Of Creme Brulee
with assorted cookies

French Macaron Ice Cream Sandwiches
with three sauces

Warm Persimmon Pudding
with citrus and persimmon ice cream

Warm Louisiana Butter Cake
with roasted pears, huckleberry sauce and vanilla bean ice cream

Creme Fraiche Cheesecake
with caramelized pecans, rhubarb and strawberry sorbet

Lemon Souffle Cake
with creme fraîche panna cotta and raspberry sorbet

Strawberry Souffle
with strawberry sauce and strawberry sorbet

Rhubarb Tart
with raspberries and pistachio ice cream

Baked Chocolate Soufflé
with two sauces

Cheese
a selection of farmhouse and artisanal cheeses presented tableside

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Gary Danko

800 N. Point (at Hyde) San Francisco, CA 94109

415-749-2060

Description

2000 | Best Restaurant

By Tamara Palmer | Tue, May 8, 2012

By Meredith Brody | Wed, May 27, 2009

By Harry Coverte | Wed, February 02, 2000

By Paul Adams | Wed, December 15, 1999

Andrew Johann | San Francisco, CA | 4 Reviews