Farallon

[tanabutler]

Are you going to do the prix fixe lunch, jschyun?

[jschyun]

Hell yes.

--actually we may have someone cancel, so we might have an empty seat. I'll post if that happens, in case anyone is interested. It would only be one seat though. This person has a tendency to flake.

Edited January 15, 2004 by jschyun (log)

[jschyun]

Sure enough she flaked.

Anyone interested in go Farallon for lunch at 11:45 on Sat?

--okay, it's been filled. thanks!

Edited January 15, 2004 by jschyun (log)

[tanabutler]

Write up your meal for me, okay? I might be headed up next week.

[jschyun]

But of course. I'll be putting it in the Dine About Town 2004 thread.

[syrah girl]

I was very excited to try Farallon and was anticipating great things. We were not disappointed. We were seated promptly at 5:45 in the main pool room where I was advised by several people to request. It's a gorgeous room, very elegant and upscale. We started with some appetizers and ordered several so we all could sample things here. Our first appetizer was the Ver Jus steamed Black Mussels with Pommes Frites, fennel, chervil, aioli. The pommes frites (french fries) disappeared immediately by our two teens that were dining with us. This was a really fun app and we loved every morsel of it. Next came the Cheaspeake Bay Softshell crab with potato gnocchi, porcini mushrooms and sweet 100 tomatoes. We also loved this appetizer and would order it again.

The kids had the Cornmeal crusted Monterey squid with summer squash, basil, pesto, lemon aioli. This was a big hit even with the kids. My daughter had the asparagus soup with a crabcake and fresh crab. She loved it and I sampled a small taste and found it to be wonderful. The kids cut out at this point to do some shopping at Union Square. I had a glass of the Muscadet that went very nice with the shellfish and appetizers. A green salad followed the apps which was a small plate of organic greens with roasted apricots, feta cheese and orange-honey vinaigrette dressing. Very good!

For our entree we shared the Roasted Local King Salmon with English peas, ravioli, bacon, lemon and mint coulis. This was a wonderful entree and very flavorful. Our server found our service to be slow (according to him, not us) and brought us a comp glass of Pinot Noir from Andersen Valley to have with our salmon. We were impressed with this as it goes for about $12/glass on the menu. Very nice touch. For dessets we shared the Bittersweet Chocolate Mousse with vanilla bean chantily, orange and Turkish spiced espresso granita. A perfect ending to our two hour meal. I will definitely return to Farallon and highly recommend it to anyone loving seafood and in the Union Square area. Valet parking was about $12. After dinner we walked around Union Square and shopped, enjoying the beautiful ambiance of this great city. We will be in Portland, Oregon soon and I'm anticipating trying some great new places there to report on. Farallon was a big thumbs up with us! :)