Aziza, located a mere five blocks from Golden Gate Park in the Outer Richmond District, serves Mediterranean cuisine made with only the finest ingredients. The free-range meat and poultry and the organic produce all comes from local, sustainable farms. Each menu item is named after one of its ingredients. For example, order the "scallop" entrée for a dish including scallops, prawns, puntarelle, turnips and passion fruit. If you're not in the mood for seafood, try "quail"---a dish of quail with celery, pine nut cereal and huckleberries. For dessert, try something like "citrus" with Meyer lemon cream, blood orange, kumquat and huckleberry cake.
Aziza
5800 Geary Blvd.
San Francisco, CA 94121
415-572-2222
aziza-sf.com
The Beach Chalet Brewery and Restaurant sits between the Pacific Ocean and the Golden Gate Park and offers stunning views of each, depending on your table. Open for breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner, the Beach Chalet offers a wide variety of dishes with a focus on seafood. For breakfast, try Dungeness crab Benedict with breakfast potatoes or an Atlantic salmon scramble. For dinner, keep it basic with a Chalet burger or go outside the box with West Coast carbonara, which includes chicken, peas, bacon and thyme. Seafood fans will appreciate the wide variety of fish, crab and prawn dishes. You can make reservations by phone or online at OpenTable.com.
Beach Chalet Brewery and Restaurant
1000 Great Highway
San Francisco, CA 94121
415-386-8439
beachchalet.com
Creative Mediterranean food and seafood with a view of the Pacific are all very well and good, but sometimes you just want to grab a quick bite of something familiar with a San Francisco twist. Underdog, which serves organic vegetarian and non-vegetarian sausages on gourmet buns, exists to fill that need. Choose from meat sausages such as roasted garlic with herbs, sweet Italian, fire-roasted red pepper and spinach-feta, or vegetarian sausages including a veggie Italian sausage and a veggie beer bratwurst. On the side, try an order of oven-baked organic "Potater-Tots" or a salad with a creative dressing of your choice, such as pomegranate chipotle or creamy miso ginger.
Underdog
1634 Irving St.
San Francisco, CA 94122
415-665-8881
myspace.com/underdogorganic
