The problem with these $200 pp ramen restaurants in SF is (1) I'm glad people are going, I know why restauranteurs in this city feel they need to focus on the top end (2) most of the time, ramen and Japanese spots in SF that charge $200 are not 5x better than things that cost $40 or less in almost every global food city that isn't SF. Or even in San Mateo (which has markedly better Japanese food).
@bunnytown growing up in singapore with a huge variety of japanese restaurants, something like wako is good but sort of like everyday sushi. we have omakase at every price range and even the conveyor belt fast food sushi is (to me) higher quality than the best sushi restaurants in san francisco, which is why the nob hill place annoys me so much
i save almost all my japanese food eating for singapore when i'm home (and LA when i visit)
@skinnylatte
Oooooh you might have posted about it before but where to go for Singaporean cuisine in SF? I only knew Straits on Geary but it's gone now...
@bunnytown damansara is pretty good for related food (malaysian)
the other place is curry leaves bistro in pleasanton
the other spots in the city are.. not very good
or you can go to hai ky mi gia in the TL, and order house special no 7 (dry flat egg noodles, with soup on the side), add a braised duck leg and hot soy milk and that's 100% a singaporean breakfast (they're vietnamese but because they are vietnamese chinese the food is exactly the same)
I’m fine never going to such expensive restaurants again in my life (I used to be a food writer and it was my job to go to such places), my tastes (and budget) have changed, but also I am morbidly outraged at how very aggressively okay places in SF are now charging astronomic prices and that’s what I’m calling out.
That’s how I feel about the food scene here. It’s very aggressively okay
I also think it’s the natural end state of the bizarre world of ‘fine dining’ where it’s no longer possible to succeed in the top end of restaurants without real estate patronage in major global cities. Other cities have the density of population and business travel to sustain the illusion of that business but SF is way too small for that.
@skinnylatte I'm curious what you think of Sushi Ran in Sausalito if you've tried it. It's in this weird middle zone of "used to be Michelin star but not absurdly priced like these"
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