Avant-garde Californian-French tasting menus using local ingredients




"A Michelin-starred restaurant in San Francisco where Daniel Patterson served as head chef before stepping down in 2015, Coi represents the culinary foundation Patterson says he is evolving at Jaca; after leaving Coi he took a break to work on projects including Locol and Alta and now feels ready to return to the kitchen with a different perspective." - Rebecca Roland

"This now-closed, two-Michelin-starred San Francisco restaurant is cited as part of the pattern in which elite dining institutions have depended on intense, often uncompensated labor, and is mentioned by former industry members as an example of how such operations can be ethically unsustainable." - ByGenevieve Yam

"Daniel Patterson’s first and final restaurant will not reopen after controversies and legal fallout; although Patterson hoped to reopen, lenders vetoed the idea." - Paolo Bicchieri

Bourdain had: veggie burger, beet rose with yogurt and rose petal ice (signature dish), California sturgeon caviar, egg yolk poached in smoked oil, wild king salmon wrapped in yuba with charred cabbage in wild ginger sauce, beef tenderloin, black sesame mocha bun with strawberry kumquat. Dinner date: Brazilian jiujitsu pro Kurt Osiander.


"I learned that Ruben Morancy was formerly the wine director of Coi in San Francisco." - Farley Elliott