San Francisco Restaurant Week kicks off 10 days of culinary exploration
SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco's annual fall Restaurant Week and Eat Drink SF officially kicked off Friday.
Diners can indulge in 10 days of deals and ticketed culinary events. This season, there are 190 participating restaurants, which is 25% more than the previous year.
On Friday, the dining room at One Market Restaurant was hopping for the opening celebration dinner. Workers were busy preparing caviar amuse bouches, duck breast entrees and roasted pear desserts.
Visiting star chefs from Slanted Door, Mourad and b. patisserie joined One Market's Mark Dommen to create a unique four-course meal.
"It's awesome to have a full house like this and to celebrate actually San Francisco coming out to eat and join us," Dommen said. "Restaurant Week is great because it gets people to come down to Financial District that normally may not come down so, for us, it's always been a plus."
Dommen said the last time he saw the restaurant this busy was during the holidays last year.
On Friday, Mayor London Breed toasted diners alongside District Attorney Brooke Jenkins. Breed said she was committed to making the city, particularly the Financial District, more inviting.
"I want not just the tech workers but all workers who work in the downtown area to come back and to just be reminded as to why they love San Francisco so much," said Breed. "Our food and wine scene has a lot to do with why San Francisco is so special."
The Golden Gate Restaurant Association hosts Restaurant Week and the Eat Drink SF event and its executive director Laurie Thomas said many of the newest additions are small mom-and-pops in Chinatown. GGRA's team paid special attention to particular neighborhoods.
"There's a lot of great $30 lunch option deals. There's $45 dinner deals -- even the $65, $75 dinners are great deals because they come with a lot of pairings and things," Thomas said. "So we want to support everybody but the Financial District has been hurting, Chinatown has been hurting, even Union Square has been hurting."
Fall Restaurant Week wraps Oct. 30.
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