Manresa Restaurant - (408) 354-4330

The back and forths slay me. The one-star rating juxtaposed with the five star rating. Everybody here wants their opinion to be the last word. There probably is no last word. It depends on you almost entirely. This is one of the best restaurants in the world. And if you can easily afford it, just go and find out. (If you hate it, you hate it.) If you are a special occasion splurge situation and you're just perusing city search looking for a highly rated place -- consider who you are. foodwise. If you eat your steak medium and wouldn't dream of eating your eggs undercooked, don't do this to yourself unless you can chalk it up to experience and forget it. You're gonna come back and write a review like the gentleman who keeps saying, "AWFUL." And to him, it was! This level of cookery is not for everybody. For me, this is a remarkable godsend of a restaurant. If I'm going out to eat within an hour of my san jose home, which is only a few times a year, I'm going here. Over and over and over. This isn't just a good restaurant. This is a superb restaurant. Almost certainly the best within a hundred miles in any direction.

the goon below me knows not what he says. sour cream on the egg? clearly you werent paying attention to the servers explanations of the dishes. i know from many trips there that theres no sour cream on the egg amuse. if you felt the meat was raw, why didnt you tell them to cook it longer? your "rookieness" is shining through in your review as well. restaurants, especially ones like manresa have the advantage of charging customers 160 for 4 courses on holidays like valentines day, new years, etc...but if you had known better you could have gone the next night for even less money and gotten the 10 course tasting for $150. sounds like you were a bit out of your league and if you want your meat served medium, with mashed potatoes and asparagus better stick to the classics like chart house, steamers grill, or gordon biersch. theres no better restaurant in the bay area, manresa owns any other spot in san fran.

After seeing it reviewed on the Michelin guide, I went here for their Valentine's day special meal. What a complete WASTE of money ($360)! Don't believe the other reviews. They offered a 4 course meal for the night. For the price I expected so much more. The proportions were ridiculous and I'm not even a big guy. You would be satisfied if you're an anorexic midget. The dishes are served on big plates, but the actual food is about the size of *very* small tapas plate. Before you start saying, "ok so this guy is just complaining about the portions/quantity" I'll now describe the food itself. Every entree that came out had something wrong. The beef dish was undercooked (90% raw), the duck dish had an extremely bitter sauce, the oyster muse wasn't fresh, the dessert had some odd super sour flavor, this odd egg muse had some really bad sour cream on the top layer (it was served inside a partically cut egg). I could go on and on, but I'm trying to forget the awful experience. It was like the chef was experimenting with different combos of flavors in every dish and failed miserably. Save your money and go elsewhere. I think people that are giving it good reviews are just trying to convince themselves the meal was good since they spent so much money on it. If I could give NEGATIVE stars, I would. I'm so disgusted and utterly disappointed.