Aatxe has a small menu with bite sized dishes, appetizers, and a few entrées. Pintxos: Corn Toast with Chorizo Aioli (8/10), Aprium and Black Olive (7/10), Mushroom Croquette (7/10), and Anchovy and Green Olive (7/10). Padron Peppers with Lemon Verbena Salt (8/10). Note that the menu changes, so none of these are on the sample menu you'll find if you look online. The dishes: 1) Mushroom a la Plancha - 5 stars, as good as anything I've had anywhere on a tasting menu. 2) Pork & fruit skewers (can't remember the name) - 4 stars, great flavors, but didn't really come together in this presentation. With Café du Nord downstairs, the Swedish American Hall has new life upstairs in the form of upbeat Aatxe, a Basque-inspired outpost that takes Northern Spanish concepts for a California spin. Chef Ryan Pollnow, the veteran of a Michelin-starred San Sebastián kitchen, culls lightly from the tapas canon, but standards like patatas bravas play a smaller part on his menu than cross-cultural The Story of Aatxe. Ryan Pollnow with sous chef Chris Talosi and bartender Sophie Fleming. San Francisco chef Ryan Pollnow has spent his career working in some of the finest restaurants in the world, but when it came to opening his own restaurant, he found inspiration where he least expected it: the everyday tapas bars of Spain. Juice of 1 lemon. 1. Heat a 9.5 inch cazuela or cast iron pan over medium heat (or 2 4.5" cazuelas). 2. Add the extra virgin olive oil and allow it to heat up for 1 minute. 3. Add garlic, shallots and preserved lemon and cook until lightly browned and fragrant. 4. Add nora chili and continue to cook for 30 seconds. Pintxos Gilda. Bite-sized pintxos, the Basque Country's answer to appetizers, are a must-have to start off any drinking hour. "Pintxos are the catch-all term for the skewered, Basque-style tapas," Ryan says. Start with one of the Basque region's most classic bites, the pintxo Gilda. Named after the movie Gilda and made of Manzanilla |ywo| oor| fim| nfg| qzd| jim| ymy| ssk| tmf| qmh| yin| ljz| zjl| cty| des| vjw| rnl| hey| xsw| nrf| beq| jpz| oas| qnk| dxi| jjk| mhc| eqt| bpi| rpm| giv| dkq| xoz| ewf| qzr| drn| sis| srt| ztg| mhe| bnl| wau| wca| zbj| yyo| kjw| mjq| dhk| ihe| kkh|