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65A 29th St. (at Mission) San Francisco, CA 94110

415-695-7800

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Critics'
Pick
Best Fried Chicken (tie)
Award Winner 2007

Cuisine(s): Caribbean, Soul Food, Southern

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

Price: $$
Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa

Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible

Serving: Dinner
Alcohol: Full bar

Reservations: Accepted

Parking: Street

Description

The dish at the Front Porch is called Miss Ollie's chicken, and blends Caribbean and American influences. The fowl is brined with citrus juices, then rubbed with an herb-and-spice mix (including habanero and parsley) and then a bath of soy-sparked beaten egg before the pieces are dipped in bread crumbs and fried, with a quick finish in the oven. Depending on the season and how the chef feels that day, sides might include black-eyed peas and collard greens flavored with pork belly.

2007 | Best Fried Chicken (tie)

Since we'll go anywhere for fried chicken, it's a good year in which two new contenders for San Francisco's best arrive. At farmerbrown, Jay Foster offers a wing, leg, and breast, which he's brined for 12 to 24 hours, and then soaked in buttermilk overnight. It comes out moist and tasty under a peppery flour-and-milk batter. The bird arrives with mac 'n' cheese and crunchy, well-vinegared coleslaw. The dish at the Front Porch is called Miss Ollie's chicken, and blends Caribbean and American... More »
2007 | Best New Dish

Brillat-Savarin once said, "The invention of a new dish is of greater importance to the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a new star." And for us the star of the menu at the Front Porch is the Dungeness crab atop sweet white corn grits porridge. We love their deep-fried chicken livers saturated with onion gravy on brioche toast, too, but we've had deep-fried chicken livers before. We've never had the combination of textures and flavors that still haunt us, months later: sweet silky... More »

The Death of Tiki Tom, the Eggs of Radius and the Front Porch

By Jonathan Kauffman | Mon, October 11, 2010

The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.The Chronicle follows on the heels of the local TV stations in reporting that a large fire des... More »
Country Meets Caribbean

By Meredith Brody | Wed, December 06, 2006

A front porch is not something one generally expects on an urban dwelling, but San Francisco is the fortunate city where certain felicities of weather and architecture permit them. For the lucky who possess one, a porch is a treat for both them an... More »

Main Menu

Dinner - Lil' Plates

$9.00

Not Your Granny's Ambrosia
with winter citrus, smithfield ham and marin roots farm arugula

$10.00

Marin Roots Farms Chickory Salad
with rosemary walnuts, pt.reyes blue cheese and tarragon vin

$6.00

Fried Pickle With Tabasco Aioli

$3.00

Bag Of Hot Boiled Peanuts

$12.00

Devils On Horseback
bacon wrapped fried oysters on savory bread pudding

$13.00

Gumbo
with liberty farms duck confit, andouille and stewed okra

$11.00

Baked Merlitons
stuffed with shrimp and crab meat with creole sauce

Dinner - Big Plates

$17.00

Farmer's Market
fresh veggies from local farmers cooked up with love.

Dungeness Crab And Grits
whole local crab with chanterelles, pomelos, green onions in shellfish beurre blanc

$18.00

Shrimp Etoufee
with anson mills carolina gold rice

3 Pieces $17.00
For A Bucket $34.00

Fried Chicken: Single Or(bucket)
3 pieces or (bucket) it's rocky jr. chicken garlic mashers and gravy, collard greens with bacon

$13.25
Add Cheddar $1.00
Add Pt. Reyes Blue For $2.00
Add Bacon $2.50
Add Egg $1.50

Burger
schmitz ranch local ground beef, hobb's bacon, cheddar, house made pickles and porch fries.

$20.00

Bourbon Maple Glazed Pork Chop
brown sugar brined pork, with potato hash, winter greens, with a savory funnel cake

Dinner - Sides

$6.00

Fried Okara
with jalapeno lime aioli

$6.00

Beans And Rice
with grilled 4505 andouille sausage

$6.00

Sweet Potato Fries
with creole aioli

$5.00

Porch Pickle Jar

$6.50

Brussle Sprouts
with lardons of bacon and fried shallots. allow 15 minutes for the following cast iron vittles

$6.50

Baked Mac And Cheese

$4.00

Biscuits Baked To Order

Brunch

$4.00

Beignets
4 new orleans style pastries with powdered sugar

$6.50

Biscuit Sandwich
with hobb's bacon, fried egg and cheese

$6.50

Hang Town Fry
fried oyster, bacon and scallion omelette on ciabatta bread

$11.00

4505 Chorizo Burger
with baked egg in hole, arugula and cotija cheese

$9.50

Country Ham And Red Eye Gravy
with 2 eggs your way and home fries

$12.00

Chicken Fried Steak And Country Gravy
with 2 eggs your way and homefries

$10.00

Pork Belly Sweet Potato Hash
with 2 eggs

$8.50

Baked Egg And Grits
with mushrooms, spinach, goat cheese and bacon

$8.50

Maria's Chiliquiles
fried tortillas and eggs with cotija cheese

$7.00

Biscuits And Sausage Gravy

$14.00

Chicken And Waffles

$14.00

Spicy Shrimp And Grits
carolina low country special of sauteed shrimp, bacon mushrooms and garlic over locally milled grits with a poached egg

$12.00

Vegan Lunch
ask your server

$7.00
With Blackened Shrimp Or Blackened Chicken $10.00

Caesar Salad

$13.75

Porch Burger
with cheese, bacon, and fries

Brunch - Po-boys
8" Roll With Your Choice Of:

$12.75

Fried Chicken

$12.75

Roast Beef

$12.75

Fried Shrimp

$12.75

Cornmeal Crusted Fried Oyster

$12.75

Fried Catfish

Brunch - Sides

$6.00

Fruit Bowl

$3.25

Bacon

$3.50

Sausage

$4.00

Homefries

$1.75

Egg

$1.75

Toast
white or wheat

$6.00

Mixed Greens

$4.00
With Andouille $6.00

Red Beans And Rice

$6.00

Mac And Cheese

$5.00

Fried Okra

$8.00

Chicken Gumbo

$4.00

Sweet Potato Fries

$5.00

Bowl Of Cheesy Grits

$4.00

Beignets (again) For Dessert

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The Front Porch

65A 29th St. (at Mission) San Francisco, CA 94110

415-695-7800

Description

2007 | Best Fried Chicken (tie)

2007 | Best New Dish

The Death of Tiki Tom, the Eggs of Radius and the Front Porch

By Jonathan Kauffman | Mon, October 11, 2010

Country Meets Caribbean

By Meredith Brody | Wed, December 06, 2006

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