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Skip to main content Currently Reading Bay Area s fine dining scene is still alive as takeout - if you can tweezer your own salad FacebookTwitterEmail Alex K. Fong / The Chronicle On a recent weeknight, I squinted at my phone while making a salad well, to be specific, a salad course delivered from San Francisco’s avante-garde restaurant Merchant Roots. The components arrived with a video of the chef, and mimicking his movements, I used tweezers to carefully place lettuce leaves and sliced English peas into an edible facsimile of a flower pot. The result: an explosion of greenery meant to evoke an overgrown spring garden art as food, the way Merchant Roots might serve it in its typical multicourse tasting. ....
Back to the box : Bay Area restaurants, bars celebrate Valentine s Day with takeout specials FacebookTwitterEmail Acquerello is offering a six-course dinner for two that includes campanelle pasta with Norwegian king crab (pictured here).Giancarlo Paterlini Love it or hate it, Valentine’s Day is upon us but unlike previous years, the holiday will look very different as couples pull their romantic dinners out of a takeout box, rather than sitting at a table inside. Throughout the Bay Area, restaurateurs and bar owners are rethinking ways to serve customers on what used to be one of their busiest days of the year, before the coronavirus pandemic. For many, it’s meant fashioning takeout orders, dinner kits and more as a way to remain afloat. ....