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Restaurant Week- Let The Games Begin!

Lev — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:27:04 +0000

Hey, Folks, Restaurant Week starts tonight! Man, what a deal! Soup or salad, meatloaf or pork confit, apple blackberry crisp or Mexican chocolate pot de creme, bottomless wine, all for thirty bucks! Sheesh! Come on down!

Brunch This Friday, Seghesio Gets Props

Lev — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:41:02 +0000

This Friday, we will be serving the brunch instead of lunch menu starting at 9 AM. Dinner will be as usual.

For those of you who follow the Wine Spectator, Seghesio Zinfandel, which we have in the bottle, was voted 12th best wine of the year, worldwide. We agree that it is pretty dang good, and does not suck at all with pork confit.

Sidreria

Lev — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 04:06:32 +0000

Dining room at Petritegi

: Dessert

A sidreria is, like it sounds, a place where they make cider. The apples are pressed and the juice is allowed to spontaneously ferment in giant barrels. No yeast, sugar, or water is added. Over time, sidrerias have evolved into informal country restaurants. The food is placed in the center of the table for all to eat. No plates are provided. When you are thirsty, you get up from the table and go to the adjacent barrel cave, where a barrel is tapped straight into your glass in a long stream. The menu this night was: chorizo cooked in cider, bacalao, grilled merluza(hake) with crunchy garlic bits, a big fat rare t-bone, cheese, membrillo, and walnuts in the shell. Here are some pictures:

Travos in the cave

Chop Bar Pig Roast at Eat Real Fest on Sept 24 and 25, 2011

Chop Bar — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:14:41 +0000

This is our third year participating in the Eat Real Festival, a great event that takes place in Jack London Square on Sept 23-25, 2011.

We will be roasting three little piggies on Saturday and Sunday (not Friday). We hope to see you all there!

Follow @EatRealFest on Twitter to find out more about the event.

Have any photos from our past events? We would love to see them, so feel free to post on our Facebook Wall.

Monday Night Movies, Monthly Pig Roasts

Lev — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:26:50 +0000

Starting May 10th, we are going to show movies every Monday night. Our upstairs neighbor Austin Hill will be curating the first few. The emphasis will be on local filmmakers and documentaries, but we’ll probably sneak “Porky’s” and “Animal House” in there once in a while. There will also be drink specials and a bar menu. I’ll keep you posted on each weeks’ movies.
Thanks to everybody who turned out to the last two pig roasts. We’ve decided to keep it special by doing it only once a month, on the 3rd Sunday. That means that the next one will be on May 16th. We hope to see you all there.

tables are here, but pig roast possibly postponed

Lev — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:16:01 +0000

The tables are here and they look and feel great. They really make you want to eat a big steak off of them. The bad news is that rain is forecast for Sunday, so we probably won’t do a pig roast that evening. We will be open, though.

Carbonara

Lev — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:05:11 +0000

Hi, everybody. We’ve got the first of the season’s English peas in, and they’re really sweet and juicy. This week we’ll be serving a good old Carbonara, with bacon, egg, lots of black pepper, and the peas. This picture is of our first batch of sausages hanging in our walk-in.

New Tables, Spring Menu

Lev — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:26:24 +0000

Hi, folks. Here are some photos of our new tables, which should be coming any day now. The guy in the foreground is Jeffrey Ruiz, woodworker extraordinaire, who also did our back wall and picnic tables. He works exclusively in reclaimed materials and says that they definitely won’t wobble!

Good news with the menu, too. It’s springtime and we’re going to be phasing in radicchio, artichokes, asparagus, spring onions, and favas. Look for radicchio and maybe asparagus this week, and a housemade pasta with spring onions, favas, and housemade ricotta next week.

Sunday Dinner

Lev — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:34:23 +0000

Hi, everybody, sorry for the lack of updates, its been kinda busy over here. We’re doing Sunday dinner again this weekend. We’ll be serving meatloaf, mashed potatoes, salad, and dessert for only $20 between 6 and 8:30, plus beer and wine specials. Hope to see you all there.

Chronicle Review: 2 1/2 stars!

Lev — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:17:02 +0000

Well, our first chronicle review came out and we got 2 1/2 stars. Check it out here:

Chop Bar is a treat in Jack London Square

“Chop Bar serves breakfast and lunch, and I’d be there all the time if I lived or worked nearby. I wish I did.” -Carol Ness, reviewer

Thanks, SF Chronicle. Look for the Sunday family style menu here tomorrow, and we’ll be posting some major menu changes next week. Thanks, everybody.