Starbelly vies with Bar Bambino - and maybe a couple others - for the best classy / casual food in San Francisco.
It attracts a younger, attractive crowd - your writer of course, excluded. Its location - on the edge of Castro - means that crowd is also a healthy mixture of SF sociables. And the food draws everyone and anyone who likes comfort food done good.
My hot date (again) had Starbelly salumi - prosciutto to be precise, butternut squash dumplings with garlic, sage, browned butter, and shaved bucheret. Her hot date had the house-made, chicken liver pate, buttered bread, sweet onion marmalade, and grain mustard. We shared the pizza: bacon, jalapeno, arugula, and green goddess dressing. It was over-greened, with too much arugula, but we were having too much fun with it to object.
I can't say Starbelly was a real find, because it's not hidden at all, right on the junction of 16th and Market, but we'll definitely go again - and maybe again.
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