great atmosphere and energy, feel like you are in New York City, great creative dishes and cocktails!

This place recently opened to very good reviews.

It’s super-popular and hard to get in at this time…even with a decently large space (for an SF restaurant), the place is PACKED and cramped. It’s fairly casual and very loud inside.

Service was fine…no real complaints.

My complaints come with the food. Two appetizers we had were decently good, but I can get just as good appetizers for half that price (or better appetizers for the same price…see Limon or a dozen other places).

My entree, a london broil, was very good, though, again, not as good as I could have gotten for that price (Maverick’s pork chop is far better). Other people’s entrees weren’t even impressive at all.

Dessert was a sort of apple tart…decent, but completely underwhelming. I didn’t come here for decent, I wanted something special.

They were super-busy that night, so perhaps the cooks were over-worked, but a restaurant at the level they want to be at should not have such a problem.

Halfway through their dining hours, they even ran out of the london broil (which I got befoer they were out) and the pork chop…no restaurant of this level should be running out of TWO entrees halfway through the night.

It’s not that the place is horrible or anything, it’s decent, and the service was fine. But running out of entrees and the underwhelming quality of the food are NOT what you’d expect from a place that tries to be at the same level as a lot of other, far superior SF restaurants (Maverick, Limon, Tablespoon, Slow Club, Coco500, all about the same price).