The Best Restaurant in The Bay Area, California

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The Bay Area is home to popular, innovative restaurants such as Chez Panisse in Berkeley and Commis in Oakland—for which reservations must be made well in advance. Expect an emphasis on locally grown produce, hormone-free meats, and California wines. Many Marin cafés don't serve dinner, and dinner service ends on the early side. (No 10 pm reservations in that neck of the woods.)

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As one of the few Georgian restaurants in the Bay Area, many diners from around the region come to this small, cheery spot to learn all about the Caucasus Mountains–region country’s important culinary heritage. Every table has an order of the two iconic dishes from Georgia: kinkhali (juicy dumplings filled with various meats) and the “cheese boat” of khachapuri, which is a trapezoid-shaped, ultra-moist, somewhat puffy bread with cheese in the center and an egg yolk. Georgia's esteemed wine regions are considered possibly the oldest in the world.

335 University Ave., Palo Alto, CA, 94301, USA
650-600–0433
Known For
  • Kebabs and hand-chopped beet and spinach "pkhali" dips
  • Grilled whole rainbow trout
  • Extensive Georgian wine list

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