The Stinking Rose - A
Garlic Restaurant
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www.TheStinkingRose.com
325 Columbus Avenue (Between Vallejo & Broadway)
San Francisco, CA 94133
415-781-7673
Hours of Operation: 11:30am-11pm Daily
Read about the
Beverly Hills Location
Although I've never been to this location, if it's
anything like their Beverly Hills Restaurant, then this is a place
you need to visit while in San Francisco. This location has been
highly recommended by many of my friends who live in the area.
This is a restaurant for garlic lovers. The Stinking Rose jests that they "season their garlic with food". I'd say 95% of the menu
has garlic as an ingredient. They even have Garlic Wine,
Garlic Martinis & Garlic Ice Cream.
Be sure to try the Bagna Calda as an
appetizer. It's a iron skillet filled with oven roasted garlic
cloves bathed in olive oil. Spread it like butter onto the house focaccia bread.
It's absolutely tantalizing. So much so, you'll need another taste,
and another... and another... If you're daring, sample the garlic relish.
(It can usually be found on your table). I
tend to alternate between both the garlic relish and the
bagna calda as I sip my wine and await
my order. Sometimes, I even put both on my focaccia. (Boy, can I be
a rebel).
I recommend meeting your best friends for a meal
here. You'll have a scrumptious Garlic laden experience (and they
can't make fun of you for smelling like garlic). Mmmmm... Garlic
breath.
If you're not fond of garlic, you can choose a dish
with a vampire next to it. If you're a vegetarian, choose an item
with a red tomato next to the entree.
