San Francisco's "Heritage Jazz District" must be a shadow of its former self. 1930s posters in this restaurant show the area as it used to be ... grimy, blue collar, with Jazz greats performing at dozens of local bars and clubs.
The area is still grimy, perhaps less blue collar and interspersed with yuppie-dom, and minus almost all of those bars and clubs.
It has had tens of millions spent on Yoshi's, an excellent, modern Jazz and RandB venue, and on that block sits 1300 Filmore.
The restaurant attempts a difficult combination: high-class and soul food, and a (surprise, surprise) English chef.
I'm not sure how soul-full the Pork Belly, Catfish, Beef Rib, and Fried Chicken were, but they met with mixed reactions from Molly, Gareth and me.
Therefore, I'm not sure how suited to the place was the English chef.
We all agreed the service was far from first-class though, with the restaurant and bar staff being helpful but mostly useless - not knowing what was on their wine list, not knowing one wine from another, not having half the vodkas or rums for their cocktails, and so on.
Forget all of that though - just make sure you're taken out by wonderful friends (like I was) and you'll love it.
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