Mission, San Francisco · restaurant
Redwood wine cask booths and a Hinoki cedar bar set a serene tone — this is a Michelin-recognized Mission izakaya where the kitchen takes craft as seriously as the carpentry. Housemade silken tofu arrives with fresh-shaved katsuobushi, gyoza come with chicken foot jelly and crisped wings, and the hand-rolled Kama Tama udon does a Japanese egg-yolk carbonara that lands like it was inevitable. NorCal sourcing runs through the whole menu — Half Moon Bay wasabi, Hikari Farm produce, Becker Lane pork — and it shows without announcing itself.