{"id":5,"date":"2008-07-17T23:45:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T07:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foodadventureteam.com\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2009-05-22T11:49:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T19:49:13","slug":"beretta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.foodadventureteam.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/beretta\/","title":{"rendered":"Our first adventure: Beretta"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nBeretta<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

1199 Valencia St.
\nSan Francisco, CA 94110<\/p>\n

Suggested by Icka<\/p>\n

In attendance:
\nIcka
\nJosh
\nLizzy
\nLeah
\nEd
\nHeather
\nDevin
\nJonathan<\/div>\n

Neo-sortof-Italian place in the Mission. Incredibly tasty & worth the wait (though the 45 minute wait was frustrating, given that we had a reservation and it was freezing out).<\/p>\n

Top-notch artisan cocktails (which caused me to break my “no drinking” rule). I got the agricole mule, and enjoyed it most out of all the drinks I tried (dolores park swizzle – delicious but SO STRONG; gaby de lys – DO NOT WANT; nuestra paloma – really fresh and yummy but also somewhat odd-tasting)<\/p>\n

We ordered a bunch of appetizers for the table:<\/p>\n

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  • cauliflower with pangratatto, capers & sage — loved the pangratatto, capers, & sage, but found the cauliflower just too much like something mom would cook (as an ingredient)<\/li>\n
  • bruschette of robiola & broccoli rabe (ok, that one was on the house for how long they kept us waiting even with the reservation) — not bad but not exciting either<\/li>\n
  • chicken liver crostini alla toscana — I’m not much of a liver person, but those who are were delighted by this one.<\/li>\n
  • gnocchi, fresh porcini mushrooms & guanciale — Holy crap delicious. Just delicious.<\/li>\n
  • herb bread with extra virgin olive oil — so soft and fresh and cheesy and herby and yuuuuuum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    My favorites were definitely the gnocchi and the herb bread.<\/p>\n

    Among the entrees that were ordered that I tried were:<\/p>\n

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    • prosciutto di parma, tomato, arugala & mozzarella pizza — My entree. Quite tasty but not actually as exciting as I’d hoped)<\/li>\n
    • potato, rosemary, raddichio & gorgonzola piccante pizza — Very, very interesting, sharp flavors. Extremely rich. Wouldn’t be able to eat more than one piece.<\/li>\n
    • mozzarella, fontina & pecorino with garlic oil pizza — Had it for leftovers the next day. Was tasty but not amazing, but then again, it’d been refrigerated and reheated at that point.<\/li>\n
    • pork saltimbocca alla romana — Quite tasty! But only had a single small bite<\/li>\n
    • squid ink risotto with calamari Amazing! Being black from the squid ink, I expected it to be heavy, but it was very light and lemony — such an unexpected and awesome flavor\/appearance clash)<\/li>\n
    • saffron risotto with osso buco — also extremely yummy!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Conclusion: TASTY! Would definitely go back, again, and again, and again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Beretta 1199 Valencia St. San Francisco, CA 94110 Suggested by Icka In attendance: Icka Josh Lizzy Leah Ed Heather Devin Jonathan Neo-sortof-Italian place in the Mission. Incredibly tasty & worth the wait (though the 45 minute wait was frustrating, given that we had a reservation and it was freezing out). Top-notch artisan cocktails (which caused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocktails","category-european","category-italian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.foodadventureteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.foodadventureteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.foodadventureteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.foodadventureteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.foodadventureteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.foodadventureteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"http:\/\/www.foodadventureteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.foodadventureteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.foodadventureteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.foodadventureteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}