An elegant and sleek upscale restaurant in SoMa that serves amazingly good American gourmet cuisine with the occasional Asian influence. There are two rooms, one with a gorgeous curving polished cherry wood bar and cafe-like booths, and a more refined dining room sporting an open kitchen. The food is good enough to make you drop your fork as your eyes widen in surprise and the corners of your mouth curl up in pleasure. There are deep, yet refined flavors, and the dishes are carefully created with contrasting textures. Although this is a very expensive place, there is a $30 chefs three-course tasting menu that is a bargain. A recent example featured "Potato leek soup with asparagus relish and pistachio drizzle", plus a "Grilled pork chop with sweet corn and fava bean succotash trumpet mushrooms and foie gras sauce." Recommended
Update: Hawthorne Lane closed early in 2007 and reopened as Two.
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