Hakkasan in San Francisco’s Financial District, Where Chic Meets Sushi & Martinis

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I just discovered a relatively new place on Kearney Street in the financial district of San Francisco called Hakkasan. From the street’s exterior, it looks more like a bank than it does a restaurant, but through the door and up the elevator, you are then transformed after entering their very trendy, very chic circular bar area where you can also order entrees and appetizers from the menu should you choose not to sit at a table, seating areas surrounding the entire bar area which takes precedence in the center.

The menu is creative, expansive and incredibly unique. Offering a number of soups (chinese mushroom soup with wolfberry, shredded duck and fish maw soup, halibut broth scented with angelica root), pumpkin soup with scallop and crabmeat and others), Hakka steamed dim sum platters (you can have vegetarian or with meat — we tried both, the vegetarian was surprisingly delicious with morel crystal dumplings, bamboo dumplings, beancurd lotus roll and chive flower dumpling), there’s a salt and pepper squid, green salad with ginger and lemongrass dressing, stir-fry mushroom lettuce wrap with pistachio and pine nut, crispy quail in Guilin chili sauce, Jasmine tea smoked beef short rib, sesame prawn toast, seared scallop with nashi pear and Thai sweet basil and peanut dressing.

They have plenty of seafood entrees as well from silver cod with champagne and halibut with chinese celery and salted plum, to steamed red snapper with chili sauce and stir-fry monkfish tail in spicy black bean sauce and a spicy prawn with lily bulb and almond. They also have lobster as well btw, not to mention scallops, braised cuttlefish in a spicy sauce with okra and potato wafer, and king crab legs.  They have an exquisite stir-fry duck breast with dried mandarin peel and a black truffle roasted duck. Oh yeah and yummy Peking duck with Tsar Nicoulai and ‘Reserve’ caviar with whole duck, 16 pancakes and scallion.

We tested four different saki options, one with a smooth chocolatey finish – all of them mostly dry. Saki is served in a stylish glass carafe on ice amidst a blue’ish glowing background, only adding to the already chic ambiance.

A few photos of what we sampled below.

Yum!

This duck salad was scrumptious.

More appetizers.

The dumplings. A must try!

More of those dumplings.

The colors so vibrant…

Served in lettuce wraps.

The whole bird.

Noodles to accompany the main.

For more great food and wine suggestions in San Francisco, visit our San Francisco restaurants and San Francisco food & wine section.

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