In this day and age, restaurants are just popping up anywhere and everywhere.
Even more exciting are the plans for the new cafeteria at Golden Gate Park’s California Academy of Sciences. The project will be headed by two of the city’s best restaurateurs: Charles Phan of The Slanted Door and Loretta Keller of Coco500. The high-profile pair will bring “sustainable produce and ecological practices” to the museum’s new eat stations, which will include a 200-seat cafe and a smaller full-service restaurant. The opening date is slated for October 2008.
Diners order at the counter from a color-coded grid menu, with dishes listed under the headings of five cuisine styles: Pacific Rim, Mediterranean, Latin and Caribbean, American and “New World.” The kitchen uses Safeway’s ingredients, such as O Organics and Rancher’s Reserve, and the food is cooked to order in a large open kitchen.Entree choices range from a slow-roasted Caribbean pork platter to cioppino, a red wine-marinated flank steak with fig balsamic chutney, and a grilled salmon flatbread. Salads include an Asian chicken salad, iceberg wedge, and date blue-cheese on spring greens. Interestingly enough, there’s nary a hamburger in sight.
In this day and age, restaurants are just popping up anywhere and everywhere.
Even more exciting are the plans for the new cafeteria at Golden Gate Park’s California Academy of Sciences. The project will be headed by two of the city’s best restaurateurs: Charles Phan of The Slanted Door and Loretta Keller of Coco500. The high-profile pair will bring “sustainable produce and ecological practices” to the museum’s new eat stations, which will include a 200-seat cafe and a smaller full-service restaurant. The opening date is slated for October 2008.
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