Mijoté
French restaurant · Mission
2400 Harrison St, San Francisco, CA 94110
Highlights
French bistro with seasonal tasting menus & natural wines
French bistro with seasonal tasting menus & natural wines
"At Mijoté, you’ll forget you’re at a restaurant and feel more like you’re at an impromptu dinner party at a friend’s house, especially when the four courses of French dishes arrive like gorgeous little gifts. You’ll see everything from scallops stacked with nectarine slices and edible flowers to roasted chicken drenched in elderberry jus on the daily-changing menu. They’re what you want to eat while sipping on some wine from a list that’s scrawled on chalkboards, and talking to your date at the charming bar about the highs and lows of the last 12 months. No two meals at this Mission spot are ever the same, which is another reason to consider this spot for all future birthdays." - julia chen 1, patrick wong, ricky rodriguez
"Mijoté is a French restaurant in the Mission with a $82, four-course tasting menu that changes daily. But these aren’t traditional French dishes that make you feel like you’ve been injected with a tub of butter—instead, the farmers market-inflected plates, which typically involve at least one kind of fruit, are bright and inventive. One day, scallops might be piled high with nectarines and cucumber, and the next you’ll cut into chicken that gets the full sweet-salty treatment from a pluot purée and elderberry jus. The light wooden counter is the best seat in the house (this place used to be an omakase restaurant), so you can watch all the action and sauce-making go down." - julia chen 1, lani conway, patrick wong, ricky rodriguez
"Chef Kosuke Tada’s culinary career began in Japan, but French cuisine is where he elected to earn his stripes, and diners at this casual neighborhood bistro are all the luckier for it. The name translates to “simmered,” which might serve as a metaphor for the careful yet uncomplicated style of the cooking, seen in a seasonal prix fixe menu that endeavors to avoid obscuring the quality of excellent locally sourced ingredients. In line with Chef Tada’s low intervention approach, the beverage program is dedicated to food-friendly natural wines, which feels especially fitting, given that the space’s relaxed wine bar aesthetic would not be at all out of place in Paris—though don’t expect even a whiff of hauteur. A winning combination, sans doute." - Michelin Inspector
"Mijoté feels like you’re at a dinner party at a friend’s house. Every dish on the four-course menu at this French restaurant in the Mission is stunning, and if you sit at the bar (the best seats in the house) you’ll get to watch staff finish up scallop appetizers, cut big hunks of sourdough (to sop up all the rich sauces), and pour elderberry jus or harissa butter onto your entrée from across the counter. Sip on a glass of natural wine in the cozy space and plan on making a standing monthly date a routine here—no two meals are ever the same." - julia chen 1, lani conway, ricky rodriguez, patrick wong
"Everyone on staff at Mijoté wears the same apron — servers cook, cooks serve, and wine is poured by the first cook with free hands. It seems the team at Mijoté has applied the most valuable pieces of their fine dining experience to this project — preparation, execution, and wine knowledge — and left the rest behind. What results is a handful of industry badasses delivering stellar four-course meals that evoke the magic of fine-dining for under $100." - Matt Tillquist
