Klassz: Hungarian food with a french flare. The ups: Super cheap Hungarian wine list (many bottles less than $20, glasses less than $5); venison goulash. The downs: Two Brit dudes in white jeans seated behind us spouting on about Vegas (one also had leather knee high riding boots!?); not a single vegetable available (the single salad listed had been depleted by the time we ordered). Not bad altogether though. We went back a second time just for some sparkling wine.
Cafe Kor: Casual bistro style place. It actually showed up on the English magazine Best Restaurant's 100 Best Restaurants in the World list in 2007 (No. 88, after Verre in Dubai and before Nobu New York). Something of a let down, though. Probably been to a dozen places in San Francisco better than this place. Everything about this place was average.
Case in point: We ordered an antipasti platter and they provided us oil and vinegar. Notwithstanding the fact that we are in the heart of Europe, and just a few hundred miles from Italy they plunked down a bottle of "Bertolli" brand oil on our table. This is the same company that produces Italian frozen meals, whose cheapo olive oil is available at any Safeway. Not that it's bad oil, just not that what you would expect at a top-shelf restaurant. They didn't even bother hiding it in a fancy bottle. Top 100 in the world my foot!
Menza: Best of the three. Great atmosphere and food. We started the night off with a grilled feta salad and "mixed pickle" plate. I have been hankering for one of these pickle plates since we got here. It included pickled cucumbers, cabbage, peppers, and cauliflower. Lauren got a fish and I got a bacon wrapped chicken dish. After our meal I topped the night off with an Absinthe. That stuff will really clear up your sinuses, let me tell you.
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