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2316 Polk (at Green) San Francisco, CA 94109

415-776-5577

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SF Weekly
Recommended
Best Frog Legs
Award Winner 2006

Cuisine(s): French

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

Price: $$$$

Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards
Attire: Business casual.

Features: Catering, Coat Check, Delivery, Private Party, Prix Fixe

Serving: Dinner

Alcohol: Full bar
Reservations: Accepted, Online Reservations Available

Parking: Street, Valet

Description

The very personal French food cooked by chef/owner Roland Passot is ambitious, showy, rich, and often delicious. At the newly redecorated (in tones of red, with fewer tables) La Folie, you choose among several prix fixe options: Menu Jardinière, Menu Cuistot, or assemble your own three-, four-, or five-course menu, at escalating prices. Truffles appear frequently, used to good effect. Even the artisanal cheese plate is all-French.

2006 | Best Frog Legs

The "Frog Legs Bernard Loiseau" served at Chef Roland Passot's temple of French cuisine honor both their inspiration -- the brilliant but tortured chef who committed suicide when it was rumored that his three-star restaurant might be reduced to two stars -- and Passot, who one trusts approaches the first San Francisco Michelin guide (coming this fall) with a greater sense of equanimity. This dish is one of La Folie's best, at the same time modern and traditional: a ring of plump,... More »
2005 | Best French

For the full-on, top-notch, starry French experience, try this newly redecorated temple of luxury (subdued tones of rust and burgundy replace marionettes and harlequins, and tables are bigger and fewer). Here you can command a three-course ($60), four-course ($75), or five-course ($85) menu pulled together from soups and salads, appetizers, fish and shellfish, poultry and meat, desserts and cheeses. Or abandon choice with the set vegetarian menu ($60) or an adventurous tasting menu... 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 »
Foie Gras Countdown, Week 2: Eat at La Folie, Ana Mandara, and Txoko

By Jonathan Kauffman | Fri, January 20, 2012

Counting down the days before July 1, when California's foie gras ban takes effect. Three more restaurants where you can eat foie gras this week: La Folie offers two foie gras preparations as part o... More »
St. Anthony's Celebrates Its Birthday by Cooking for 10,000

By Mollie McWilliams | Tue, September 20, 2011

St. Anthony's 60th Birthday BBQ When: Saturday, Sept. 24, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Where: St. Anthony's 150 Golden Gate (at Leavenworth) Cost: Free The Rundown: Not only has the St. Anthony Foundation ser... More »
Banquet de Luxe

By Meredith Brody | Wed, May 04, 2005

The morning after you've feasted on frog's legs, snails, pig's feet, lobster, crab, beef tenderloin, quail, squab, and foie gras foie gras foie gras (not to mention truffles truffles truffles, an assortment of cheeses, and a confusion of sweets) i... More »

Dinner Menu

Appetizers
3 Course Menu $80.00, 4 Course Menu $90.00, 5 Course Menu $100.00

Tasting Of Passot Roe
sea of cortez diver scallop ceviche, kampachi sashimi, and kusshi oyster

Frog Legs “bernard Loiseau”
garlic puree and parsley coulis

Goat Cheese Tatin
with roasted eggplant, artichokes, tomato confit, portobello mushroom, and sauce vièrge

Sautéed Burgundy Snails
in pernod lemon butter, parsley, bone marrow gratin

Hudson Valley Foie Gras Torchon
with smoked apple barbeque glazed squab, caramelized onion and strawberry compote

Warm Pig Feet, Sweetbread And Lobster Terrine
on a lentil salad with bacon and hazelnut vinaigrette

Seared Hudson Valley Foie Gras
with spice poached apple and apple consommé. $10.00 supplement

Soups & Salads
3 Course Menu $80.00, 4 Course Menu $90.00, 5 Course Menu $100.00

Asparagus Soup
with lobster, poached quail egg and brioche crouton

Triple T Ranch Tempura Duck Egg
on sweetbreads pancake, frangelico almond pesto, wild mushroom salad, truffle vinaigrette

Baby Heirloom Beets Salad
robiola tres latti mousse, banyuls vinaigrette

Dungeness Crab Salad
on pea panna cotta, yellow curry tuile, curried spiced crab vinaigrette

Fish & Shellfish
3 Course Menu $80.00, 4 Course Menu $90.00, 5 Course Menu $100.00

Seared Day Boat Scallop And Foie Gras Rossini
on seared yukon gold potatoes with truffles

Butter Poached Lobster
on celery root and parsnip ravioli with truffle beurre fondue, and marcona almond salad

Lobster And Mushroom Risotto
with leeks and lobster broth

Slow Roasted Wild King Salmon
with parsley gnocchi, spring vegetables, sweet onion puree and morel mushrooms

Poultry & Meat
3 Course Menu $80.00, 4 Course Menu $90.00, 5 Course Menu $100.00

Trio of Rabbit (Loin, Rack and Braised Leg)
with spring vegetables, garlic, thyme and rosemary natural jus

Liberty Farm Duck Breast
smoked duck tongue, passion fruit-orange sauce

Rôti Of Quail And Squab
stuffed with mushrooms, wrapped in crispy potato strings, truffled jus

Roasted Emigh Farms Lamb Rack
with butter beans, merguez wrapped loin, lamb tongue, taggiasca olive lamb jus

Le Boeuf
certified angus beef tenderloin, braised beef short rib, and burger rossini with sauce bordelaise. 20.00 supplement

Dessert & Cheese
3 Course Menu $80.00, 4 Course Menu $90.00, 5 Course Menu $100.00

Selection of Artisan Cheeses

Huckleberry Baked Alaska
huckleberry and basil ice creams, lemon biscuit, huckleberry panna cotta

Warm Edam Cheese Soufflé
with fromage blanc sorbet, crispy bacon, white sesame tuile

Seasonal Sorbets
strawberry sorbet and lemon-mint granite, passion fruit sorbet cannoli, spiced chocolate sorbet

“the Sunset” Warm Bittersweet Chocolate Fondant
with chocolate ganache, crème anglaise, brandied dried fruits

Beignets
homemade strawberry jam, caramel popcorn ice cream

Valrhona Chocolate Bread Pudding
early spring strawberries, green tea white chocolate ganache, strawberry ice cream

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La Folie

2316 Polk (at Green) San Francisco, CA 94109

415-776-5577

Description

2006 | Best Frog Legs

2005 | Best French

By Tamara Palmer | Tue, May 8, 2012

By Jonathan Kauffman | Fri, January 20, 2012

By Mollie McWilliams | Tue, September 20, 2011

By Meredith Brody | Wed, May 04, 2005