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508 Fourth St. (at Bryant) San Francisco, CA 94107

415-777-1508

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SF Weekly
Recommended
Best Upscale Pizza
Award Winner 2010

Cuisine(s): California, New American

Hours: Sun, Sat 11am-2:30pm, Sun 3pm-9pm, Tue-Fri 11:30am-2:30pm, Tue-Sat 6pm-10pm

Price: $$$
Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa, American Express

Features: Banquet Facilities, Fireplace, Private Party, Vegetarian Friendly, Wheelchair Accessible, Wifi Access

Serving: Brunch, Dinner, Late Night, Lunch
Alcohol: Full bar

Reservations: Accepted, Online Reservations Available, Recommended on Weekends

Parking: Street, Valet

Description

Elizabeth Falkner, the spiky-haired chef locally famed for her Hayes Valley restaurant, Citizen Cake, goes modern at her SOMA outpost. It features interesting, if not always entirely successful, assemblages of ingredients and techniques. We enjoyed the charcuterie platter and the roast pig entrée from the seasonally influenced menu. Thoughtfully creative, exotic cocktails are served at table or at the large horseshoe bar.

2010 | Best Upscale Pizza

Handicapping the city's ever-expanding makers of Neapolitan thin-crust has become a local sport. Meanwhile, at Orson, Elizabeth Falkner's kitchen is quietly serving up the tastiest, most technically polished expressions of Cal-cuisine pizza in San Francisco. Sous-chef Josh Capone -- one of the city's truly gifted breadmakers -- mixes up daily batches of a dough Falkner developed. It yields pies of moderate thinness, smudged with black from a gas-fired pizza deck. The crisp-chewy... More »

Livin' It Up with the "Hotel California" Menu at Orson

By Carina Ost | Wed, August 10, 2011

"Hotel California" by the Eagles is best known as a slightly spooky song that every dummy at a party will bust out on the guitar in an effort to impress girls. At least that's what I remember from col... More »
Ready when you are: People who wait for brunch? Not us

By Jonathan Kauffman | Wed, June 09, 2010

For a meal that once seemed to epitomize urban living, weekend brunch brings out the basest parts of our nature. Look at the crowd outside every known brunch spot from the Bay to the Breakers. Half are the overachievers, who've biked 40 miles or m... More »
What to Have for Lunch: S.F.'s Best Upscale Pizza at Orson

By John Birdsall, SFoodie Editor | Fri, May 21, 2010

Fri., May 21, 2010 Like inking an image of your beloved basenji across your left pec, developing a distinctive pizza is an act of self-expression for many chefs in San Francisco. At Orson, the thin-c... More »
The 10 Best Sandwiches in San Francisco

By John Birdsall, SFoodie Editor | Wed, May 12, 2010

Stuff between bread busted out bigger than Bieber this year but then, if you've been following our daily countdown of SFoodie's 92 favorite things to eat and drink, you knew that. We hoisted Dagwoods ... More »
Orson Not Well

By Meredith Brody | Wed, July 23, 2008

San Francisco hasn't seen a lot of the cutting-edge style of cooking called molecular gastronomy. It features deconstructed dishes (often with poetic or jokey names), ingredients combined in unexpected and sometimes startling ways, innovative cook... More »

Dinner Menu

Starters

$8.00

Soup By The Bowl
inspired daily

$11.00

1/2 Dozen Oysters
with tobasco butter and lime

$11.00

Explosive Caesar Salad
romaine, parmesan streusel, croutons

$10.00

Shaved Fennel
endive, roasted beets, radishes, almonds, lemon vinaigrette

$11.00

Baked Goat Cheese Salad
frisee, apples, walnut vinaigrette

$10.00

Thai Coconut Curry Mussels
fresno chili, cilantro and grilled bread

$8.00

Oysters Rockafeller

Entrees

$24.00

Braised Beef Shortribs
semolina-ricotta cake, roasted beets, horseradish cream, cress

$26.00

Pork Chop
sauteed apples, honey-beer mustard, onion rings

$24.00

Chicken Ballotine
gnocchi, pancetta, parsnip

$27.00

Local Rock Cod
daikon, dashi broth, ginger, tapioca

$27.00

Grilled Hangar Steak, Farro, Mushrooms, Grilled Raddichio

$17.00

Orson Burger And Duck Fat French Fries

Pasta

$16.00

Gnocchi
butternut squash puree, parmesan, hazelnuts, fried sage

$17.00

Spaghetti And Meatballs
with red sauce

Pizza
Extras: White Anchovies, Egg Or Bacon $2.00

$9.00

Olive Oil, Garlic, Parmesan, Oregano

$12.00

Tomato Sauce, Fresh Mozzarella, Basil

$13.00

Bianca
four cheeses, truffle, fried sage

$14.00

Meatballs
tomato sauce, ricotta, parmesan

$15.00

Fennel Sausage
fennel, herb ricotta, red onion, forraged fennel pollen

$16.00

House-made Bacon
sliced apples, sharp cheddar, bbq sauce

$14.00

Spicy Copa Salami
tomato sauce, mozzarella, fresno chili

$12.00

Chocolate, Olive Oil, Fleur De Sel Chili Esplette

Sides

$7.00

Duck Fat French Fries
browned butter béarnaise

$6.00

Curry Cauliflower Gratin

$6.00

Wood Roasted Raddichio Bagna Cauda

$8.00

Mac & Cheese

Dessert

$10.00

Breakfast Of Champions
cinnamon toast ice cream, oatmeal ice milk, bourbon caramel fried french toast

$10.00

Hello Young Lover
black pepper strawberries, citrus shortbread, buttermilk sherbet, strawberry sorbet

$10.00

Love Song To Northfield
maple custard, blueberry compote, brown sugar struesel, sweet corn ice cream

$10.00

Pour La Victoire
devil's food cake, vietnamese coffee-chocolate mousse, carmelized cocoa flakes, malted vanilla ice cream

$10.00

The Beautiful And Damned
creme fraiche cotta, cherry sorbet, lemon verbena meringue, lillet soaked cherries

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Orson - CLOSED

508 Fourth St. (at Bryant) San Francisco, CA 94107

415-777-1508

Description

2010 | Best Upscale Pizza

By Carina Ost | Wed, August 10, 2011

By Jonathan Kauffman | Wed, June 09, 2010

By John Birdsall, SFoodie Editor | Fri, May 21, 2010

By John Birdsall, SFoodie Editor | Wed, May 12, 2010

By Meredith Brody | Wed, July 23, 2008