Description
The food at Daniel Patterson's Jack London Square restaurant takes many of the characteristics of the New California Cuisine of Coi or Plum -- plates that look as if they've been gathered from the forest floor, flavor combinations designed to surprise rather than comfort, lots of playing around with texture — and super-sizes them. These are plates to share: giant lengths of bone marrow covered in radishes and Meyer lemon segments; great hunks of beef with roasted sunchokes and pickled artichokes; smoked pasta enveloped in onion sauce and flecks of cured pork. Chef Kim Alter's food is rich, bold, and, for all its grace notes and twists, approachable.
