Review: Conduit

I have found a new favorite restaurant :). I have now taken my parents here, all of my best friends here, my out-of-town visitors here, my co-workers here, my sister here, my cousin here... and they all do nothing but rave. So, I thought it was about darn time that I wrote a review.

First off, the lovely hostess at the front was so pleasant and polite and was genuinely happy to have us there. And she remembers me every time - and the servers have started to recognize me, too! Major kudos for that...

Admittedly, I haven't explored as much of the menu as I would like - but, it changes so often, I doubt that matters much. First time I went there, I had the duck confit appetizer and the pork chop main... both really good. Oh, but the dessert... the boca negre... I literally thought I had died and went to dessert heaven. The dark chocolate with the slight anise flavor... I almost had a chocolate induced orgasm... THAT good. 2nd time, I had the quail appetizer and the halibut main... and that boca negre, again... both also really good (and I also noticed that the chef, in the quail appetizer, used the same trick I use for fried green tomatoes - tempura batter. I was born and raised in deep south Georgia, so I know green tomatoes... and my mom thinks tempura frying them is sacrilege - but, trust me, it's better :)). 3rd time I barely remember because of the wonderful house manhattan with the brandied cherries - I just know it was another type of fish and again, really good! And the most recent experience was the hamachi sashimi drizzled with dark soy and pomegranate as a starter and then the seared sea bass put over a bed of butternut squash puree and kale sauteed with bacon and cippolini onions - my mercy, how good that was!!!

All the times I have been, the service was absolutely impeccable (MUCH better than I would have expected from a Mission restaurant with relatively moderate prices) and my guests, who are foodies just like me, all raved.

It's just disheartening to me to see reviews on Yelp! and other sites about really petty things (get over the modern bathrooms, people! :P) when the people who own this place truly do have their act together. And that's more than I can say for other restaurants in the Mission that I've been going to for years...