Ox & Tiger
Filipino restaurant · Tenderloin
552 Jones St, San Francisco, CA 94102
Highlights
Filipino-Japanese fusion with intimate seating & storytelling
Filipino-Japanese fusion with intimate seating & storytelling
"San Francisco is a tasting menu town, and Ox + Tiger’s six-course dinner is one of the most exciting. The constantly changing $95 menu is a mashup of Japanese and Filipino flavors, and all of the dishes taste genuinely different and new. Grilled strip loin is topped with peanut sauce and served next to a beautiful panko-crusted fried eggplant. Salmon tataki and a creamy coconut mango sauce arrive alongside a bagoong tare-topped seared green mango. The eight-seat spot is run by a two-person team who prepare, serve, and reveal their personal connection to each dish like they’re your closest friends. For an intimate special occasion dinner, Ox + Tiger is it." - julia chen 1, lani conway, ricky rodriguez
"A Filipino-Japanese fusion restaurant offering a four-course prix-fixe menu with unique dishes like pork cheek and bagoong burger."
"Ox + Tiger is one of the many sub-$100 tasting menus in town—but it’s the only one in the city focusing on a mash-up of Japanese and Filipino flavors. The $95 dinner, which ranges from four to six courses, includes things like a grilled strip loin topped with peanut sauce or salmon tataki alongside a bagoong tare-topped seared green mango. There are only eight seats available nightly, so it’s easy to make conversation with the chefs across the counter as they reveal personal anecdotes behind each dish." - julia chen 1, patrick wong, ricky rodriguez
"The two-person team behind this former pop-up recently found a permanent home in Union Square. Their $125, six-course tasting menu has been a 2022 high point ever since. This spot fuses Japanese and Filipino flavors. Grilled strip loin is covered in peanut sauce and served next to a panko-crusted fried eggplant. Salmon tataki comes with creamy coconut-mango dip and a bagoong tare-topped seared green mango. The fact that the chefs break from their grilling, tweezing, and plating to explain their connection to each dish, and that the anything-but-casual dinner goes down in an eight-seat space the size of a Las Vegas elevator are more reasons to go here for your next big-deal dinner." - julia chen 1, lani conway
"Authentic Filipino comfort food — perfect for late night and hangout situation." - Astro Studios
