Located on a charming street in Presidio Heights, Spruce is a beautifully decorated restaurant with a contemporary look and feel. At dinner, our friend told us that this restaurant used to be a car repair shop. Unbelievable as it definitely been transformed into an elegant and non-pretentious space. Voted by Forbes as one of the top 50 new restaurants in 2008, we were all trying this place for the first time. It is contemporary American cuisine serving locally and organically grown produce.
Overall, the service and ambience were great. We all especially enjoyed the servers’ simultaneous and rhythmic placing of our dishes in front of us. It was quite a treat. For appetizers, we shared a charcuterie plate which is always a nice starter, ravioli with sweet corn which was pretty good and the potatolings cooked in duck meat fat which was the absolute best. I ordered a braised short rib which was decent, but overcooked. It did however had an interesting pairing with peach wedges. It was a really nice complement to the short ribs. Our friend Danny had the duck breast with grilled foie gras. The fois gras was absolutely delicious: crunchy skin and tender inside that just melts in your mouth. My husband ordered seared tuna with wild mushrooms which he said was uneventful, but is always a safe dish. I thought the wild mushrooms were really good. Overall, Spruce was good, but not great.
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