Ox & Tiger
Filipino restaurant · Tenderloin
552 Jones St, San Francisco, CA 94102
Highlights
Ox + Tiger is a cozy, intimate spot serving creative Filipino-Japanese fusion tasting menus that blend bold flavors with personal chef stories.
Ox + Tiger is a cozy, intimate spot serving creative Filipino-Japanese fusion tasting menus that blend bold flavors with personal chef stories.
"A Filipino-Japanese fusion restaurant offering a four-course prix-fixe menu with unique dishes like pork cheek and bagoong burger."
"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
"Authentic Filipino comfort food — perfect for late night and hangout situation." - Astro Studios
"The two-person team behind this former pop-up found a permanent home in Union Square in fall 2021. Their $125, six-course tasting menu has been a 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
"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
