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Welcome to Grand Cafe
The Grand Cafe serves up a unique blend of contemporary French panache and freewheeling Bay Area spirit. Located in the heart of San Francisco's Theater District, we feature lively brasserie-style dining in a beautifully restored Art Deco dining room—one of the few remaining ballrooms that survived the earthquake of 1906.
We are a hometown destination for hungry Union Square shoppers during the day and theatergoers at night. And, of course, people from around the world visit us for an authentic San Francisco experience, from our locally-sourced ingredients to our opulent environment.
France of today meets San Francisco's gilded past. Swing by and experience the best of both worlds.
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Chef Alicia Jenish presents specials from McCormack & Long Ranch
Misfit: A person whose behavior or attitude sets them apart from others.
The Grand Cafe misfit dinner series looks to celebrate and highlight “misfit” animals and techniques that reach beyond traditional French brasserie style dishes—animals that aren’t often featured on our every day menus and techniques from different regions in France and different time periods too. This dinner series also gives us a chance to celebrate the local purveyors we work with.
See the Menu for the Lamb Dinner from the local McCormack Ranch by clicking the link below.
May is National Wine Month and we are celebrating with half-off our extensive collection of wine and bubbles!
Want to select your half price bottle before you come in? Here is our extensive wine list for your viewing pleasure.
We look forward to seeing you for Wine Month at the Grand Cafe!
*limit 2 per table
Kristin Almy is the head bartender of the Grand Cafe restaurant. She has created a number of new cocktails for the new seasonal cocktail list. Her creations incorporate vibrant San Francisco flavors and are inspired by traditional French spirits, wines, aperitifs and cocktails. Signature cocktails include the Merci, a vermouth cocktail combined with a housemade blackberry liqueur and topped with sparkling wine, as well as the La Vive Boheme, made with Hanger One Buddha’s Hand vodka, a housemade Bordeaux syrup, grapefruit juice and a touch of smoke.
Growing up in Colorado, Kristin spent time behind the bar in Las Vegas before making her way to San Francisco. While in Las Vegas, Kristin developed her strong desire to create unique flavors that utilized her vast knowledge of spirits. Kristin has since spent time behind the bar at Bar Adagio and Miss Pearl’s Restaurant and Bar in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through these positions, she learned to integrate local and seasonal ingredients into her ever evolving cocktail lists and programs.
When not behind the bar at the Grand Cafe, Kristin can be found at local restaurants, or riding on her 1970 Yamaha motorcycle.
Click below to see her new cocktail menu!
Grand Cafe has launched its Saturday and Sunday Brunch program, featuring flavorful specialty dishes, as well as weekend drink favorites like Bloody Mary’s and Mimosas with a twist.
From 10:30 am-2:30 pm, guests can start the day off with our Make your own Bloody Mary Bar, complete with a variety of house-made hot sauces, tomato juice, fresh horseradish and pickled onions, carrots and radishes. Or, toast to the weekend with Mimosas using fresh seasonal fruit juices.
Specialty dishes will celebrate unique flavors, while keeping the classics in mind. Some favorites include our House-made Corned Beef Choux Farci with fried eggs and horseradish cream or our French Toast with heirloom apples, cinnamon, and huckleberry sauce.
Executive Chef Alicia Jenish loves trying out traditional French techniques. Here she explains the history behind cooking with hay and demonstrates how to roast a leg of lamb in hay.
