First Crush Restaurant

First Crush, located on 101 Cyril Magnin, within walking distance of the SF Shopping Centre. Its website is beautiful, with an animation of laptop batteries chalk sketching its logo of grapes amidst a cheery background music. It is known for its excellent and extensive wine list, hence its name. The place is not largeit seems it should be a romantically cozy small place, but the tables are packed a bit close. The loud conversation from the next table disrupted our romantic talk, and the waiters squeezed by to serve the guests.

On the dinner menu, theres the option of how long does it take to get weed out of your system sharing several smaller, but not quite tapas-size, dishes, or ordering a main dish each. We took the middle road in ordering the Hawaiian dayboat walu (fish), beef short ribs, and tender duck confit phyllo. pan seared walu served over Peruvian purple potatoes and vegetable ragout beef short ribs on left, and duck confit phyllo

The walu was my favorite dish, with a delicious sauce to it, while the meat of the short ribs fell easily off the bone. I appreciated the creativity of the duck confit shaped in phyllo cakes, but the dish could have been hotter so the crisp of the phyllo was there. We ordered a fruit crisp (apple) for dessert, and this one was really good. As for their tremendous wine offerings, Ill have to say we did not touch it. New to wines, we have a finite taste of what wines we like, so we brought in our sure-please bottle and underwent the corkage fee. A nice dinner, with a walk around the nearby Emporium afterwards.