![]() It's what the chefs do with these ingredients that is brilliant. Looking back on these exact menu descriptions I think they come across as too dry and clinical and do not impart the complexity and composition of how the ingredients are actually used. Here are a few descriptions of the best courses: brown rice porridge with abalone and fermented artichokes poached halibut with fava beans, ramps and charred lemon grilled pork with braised tendon and cervil, renderings steeped with dried squid rhubarb with olive oil and frozen buttermilk. I never went for two minutes without my glass being filled or topped off. The pacing is also excellent and I have never been at a restaurant where the wine service was so attentive. Courses are very creative and attractively served. Dining out is chiefly about the food and Commis does not disappoint. ![]() One could also bring your own bottle for a very reasonable $25 corkage, but its the wine pairing seems the best choice. My advice is to buy the wine pairing at the restaurant for $75 which offers seven different wines throughout the course of the meal and seems very fair. There is a fine alternative Champagne on the list for $20 per glass. A glass of Krug Champagne costs $60! You can find bottles in wine stores for $135-150. That being said, wine prices are not cheap-on average bottles are at least double retail and low level imports such as white and red Bourgognes are $125-130 which which seems like triple or quadruple what a wine savvy buyer could find them for in the market. The staff is very, very friendly and the director of wine is very knowledgable. The restaurant is very small, with seating for no more than 30. Commis offers an 8 course, actually 12-13, meal for $125 and as stated above is quite a bargain compared to other restaurants in San Francisco whose prix fixe menus have reached $295 and are probably soon going even higher. One can quite contentedly never leave Berkeley and dine at Corso, Wood Tavern, Millennium and the like, not to mention Chez Panisse, and be very, very contented. Restaurants serving entries in the $20-30 price range thrive there and are excellent. If this is your view of a night out, Commis is perhaps the cheapest priced dining extravaganza and well worth packing your passport and ubering across the Bay Bridge to the East Bay, long a destination for knowledgable foodies for some of the best eating in the Bay Area. Well heeled locals, Silicon Valley billionaires and millionaires and deep pocketed tourists support these hours long dining experiences. There seems to be an "arms race" going on with restaurant after restaurant competing for the title of top multi-course, prix fixe, three figure dining experience-Benu, Quince and many others. ![]() LA is about fun in dining-try Bestia or Officine Brera for example, but San Francisco is just the opposite. The middle level restaurant scene there is exciting and recognized by national food critics as being phenomenal, but the one area LA seems to have no interest in is the formal, white tablecloth restaurant serving multi-course, self serious, frequently ponderous meals. To those in Southern California who were last visited by Michelin seemingly a decade ago, this is crazy. To locals of Babylon by the Bay this is just. Please stay off the uplands and well away from private tidelands to avoid trespassing.The only city on the West Coast of America that Michelin rates is the San Francisco Bay area. The boundaries of this area are marked by fiberglass posts and concrete blocks (see beach map). It is located north of the public tidelands at about the halfway point of Oakland Bay Recreation Tidelands. There is also a plot of private tidelands adjacent to the public tidelands. Įxcept for the access trail, parking lot and public tidelands all of the uplands surrounding the golf course are private property. On the south side of the Bayshore Peninsula (golf course) public tidelands surround plots of private tidelands and closed areas (see beach map). ![]() WDFW signs and posts mark the boundary of private & closed areas beginning at this point. Clamming is good from here southward along the beach until you reach the concrete walls of the old Olympia oyster dikes. and then joins Highway 3) about 5.7 miles to the WDFW public access parking lot, located on the right side of Highway 3 just northeast of the Bayshore Golf Club.įrom Bremerton, follow Highway 3 south towards Shelton, and look for the public access parking lot on the left, shortly after passing Mason Lake Rd.Ī short trail bordering the Bayshore Golf Course leads from the parking lot to the beach. ![]() Watch for a "Public Fishing" sign at the entrance to the parking lot.įrom Highway 101 (coming from either the north or south), take the Wallace-Kneeland Blvd.
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