San Francisco & East bay Area favorite (often vintage) restaurant & bars - Tiki Travel

Q quickiki Member Stockton, CA Joined: Dec 29, 2005 Posts: 140	Q quickiki Posted posted on Thu, May 4, 2006 11:06 AM I'm kind of surprised that no one at TC has mentioned of Rick's Bar and Restaurant in San Francisco at 30th and Taraval Street. It's been a haunt of the Sunset District for years and has a very diverse crowd on Fridays and weekends. It's your typical looking dark neighborhood pub/restaurant with a big open bar on one side and elevated seating on the other which is the restaurant portion. The menu is all over the map ranging from comfort pub food to Hawaiian. They used to have a Hawaiian band play on Fridays and feature a full-on Luau on the first Monday of the month (as I recall). Rick (the owner) evidently has been a chef at Canlis Grill in Hawaii and used to be the executive chef for the legendary Gold Spike restaurant. His signature pot roast at "The Spike" is offered here and pretty damn good at that. The food can be hit or miss, but generally his Hawaiian dishes are tasty. The prices are right and the place can be very crowded on weekends. The last time I was there (admittedly a couple of years ago), it was pouring rain in the middle of winter and as I walked through the front door, I was confronted with a bunch of customers in aloha shirts, packed into the bar area, listening to a trio of traditional Hawaiian musicians playing and singing, oblivious to the English pub-like atmosphere. Weird but true! http://ricksaloha.com/page/o29f/Home_Page.html [ Edited by: quickiki 2006-05-04 11:49 ]

I'm kind of surprised that no one at TC has mentioned of Rick's Bar and Restaurant in San Francisco at 30th and Taraval Street. It's been a haunt of the Sunset District for years and has a very diverse crowd on Fridays and weekends. It's your typical looking dark neighborhood pub/restaurant with a big open bar on one side and elevated seating on the other which is the restaurant portion.

The menu is all over the map ranging from comfort pub food to Hawaiian. They used to have a Hawaiian band play on Fridays and feature a full-on Luau on the first Monday of the month (as I recall).

Rick (the owner) evidently has been a chef at Canlis Grill in Hawaii and used to be the executive chef for the legendary Gold Spike restaurant. His signature pot roast at "The Spike" is offered here and pretty damn good at that. The food can be hit or miss, but generally his Hawaiian dishes are tasty. The prices are right and the place can be very crowded on weekends. The last time I was there (admittedly a couple of years ago), it was pouring rain in the middle of winter and as I walked through the front door, I was confronted with a bunch of customers in aloha shirts, packed into the bar area, listening to a trio of traditional Hawaiian musicians playing and singing, oblivious to the English pub-like atmosphere. Weird but true!

http://ricksaloha.com/page/o29f/Home_Page.html

[ Edited by: quickiki 2006-05-04 11:49 ]

Post #230487 by quickiki on Thu, May 4, 2006 11:06 AM