Carabao

The Best Dishes Eater San Francisco’s Editors Ate in June | Eater SF

"This debut marks the area’s first sit-down Filipino restaurant and showcases chef Jade Cunningham’s interpretations of Filipino dishes; the table sampled pork lumpia, a sisig taco, spaghetti, summer ensalada and more. The standout was a crispy kare kare: an oxtail dish with a peanut curry base accompanied by tripe, bok choy, green beans, and pieces of charred eggplant. The oxtail is treated differently than usual—along with tenderizing the cut of meat, it is taken off the bone, shredded, placed back on the bone, then breaded and fried—culminating in what the San Francisco Chronicle likened to a croquette. This fried treatment gives the dish some oomph and a crispness kare kare doesn’t normally have; it’s a heavier item best paired with the summer ensalada for balance. Open from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday." - Paolo Bicchieri