Firefly

Ahhhh.. Firefly! This is our personal favorite restaurant in the city. We feel it captures the best of a small San Francisco neighborhood restaurant with excellent food, yummy wines, pleasant staff, warm atmosphere and reasonable prices. It's the kind of place you look forward to going whether you are celebrating a special moment, or just need to return to your "happy place" after a long day. Firefly captures the charm of childhood nostalgia paired with an adult's refined taste. A small but well appointed menu that offers a few staple dishes we have come to love, along with enough variation to keep you coming back. Firefly meals get your palate in sync with the season with things like root vegetable dishes in the winter and green beans and tomatoes in the summer. The menu usually has "one of everything" - a fish, steak, pork, chicken and vegetarian dish, each one as well prepared as the other, and each one with fulfilling sides. Be sure to leave room for the potstickers beforehand and the pot de creme afterward if it's on the menu. Desserts are particularly good here! And for those lighting and ambience snobs, Firefly couldn't be more than a flicker away from perfection.