Diancecht Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 (edited) the room has only eight tables and yet i can barely hear hubby. there’s lots of wood and zero sound absorption. i just don’t understand how a three star michelin restaurant doesn’t have carpeting. it’s not like they can’t afford it. may 2017 review at the infatuation june 2018 sf chronicle review oh, but you’re not here to read my rants about the décor. some dishes worked such as dry-aged black cod served with meyer lemon, chard kimchi, preserved persimmon and herb/flower salad and dungeness crab ice cream with caviar, crab chicharrón and crab broth, and others were a complete miss (like a beet ceviche in which the grated root vegetable bordered on acrid due to being overwhelmed by vinegar) and a carrot taco with rutabaga and turnip purée that basically tasted like nothing. a fermented leek tart (leek custard, buckwheat sablèe, leek tempura) doubles as a cheese course and bridges savory and sweet. some of you who are purists might find yourself wishing for plain old cheese instead. i’m glad we went, but i don’t think we’ll be returning anytime soon. Edited December 16, 2023 by Diancecht Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinghiale Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 I had dinner at Petit Crenn in 2019 - very enjoyable and at a much gentler price point than Atelier. It looks like it then closed (Covid?) and recently reopened as a venue for pop-ups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 You remind me of my one very sad experience at Petit Crenn where the food was coming out too salty, eventually inedible so. Seated at the counter overlooking the kitchen I eventually saw what was happening. A young line cook was constantly — constantly — tasting what he was cooking and, finding it under seasoned, was adding more salt. If he’d been doing that for a couple of hours, no wonder he couldn’t taste the salt any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephanieL Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 3 hours ago, cinghiale said: I had dinner at Petit Crenn in 2019 - very enjoyable and at a much gentler price point than Atelier. It looks like it then closed (Covid?) and recently reopened as a venue for pop-ups. I too had a very nice dinner at Petit Crenn around the same time. It didn't hurt that one of the friends we were with personally knew the sommelier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diancecht Posted December 17, 2023 Author Share Posted December 17, 2023 they seated us at the worst table: a dimly lit corner situated next to the entrance to the kitchen. we couldn’t ask them to reseat us because the others were filled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diancecht Posted December 17, 2023 Author Share Posted December 17, 2023 petit crenn was lovely when hubby and i went in 2018. they may reopen it soon once the pop-up phase is over. there’s bar crenn which might be worth visiting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diancecht Posted December 17, 2023 Author Share Posted December 17, 2023 when they served the beet course, there was a glass beet “we were supposed to contemplate as we ate the food”. i wish i was making this up… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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