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Owners are devoting space to cheap phentermine 37.5 mgs, and chefs are putting their signature dishes on bar menus, all to feed an appetite for casual yet creative dining. Craving the duck at Jardiniere? You no longer need to reserve a month in advance and sit down for a full meal; you can order from the sleek cheap phentermine 37.5 mg as you sip a glass of wine or a classically inspired cocktail. Want to impress your date, but not ready to commit to each other, or a tasting menu, yet? Drop in again, no reservations necessary at tony Spruce's equally tony cheap phentermine 37.5 mg, or Coi, Daniel Patterson's intimate North Beach restaurant with an adjacent six table cheap phentermine 37.5 mg. Bay Area restaurateurs have long flirted with less formal approaches, such as small plates, bar dining and communal tables. It's part of what keeps the scene vibrant. With economic pressures squeezing restaurants' already slim profit margins and diners' wallets, it makes sense to cater to those who want to sample the fare and ambience without the three course tab. Hardly anyone is opening without considering and making room for cheap phentermine 37.5 mg dining. Even Michael Mina, chef owner of the acclaimed eponymous restaurant in San Francisco, has plans to open a restaurant wine bar with wine director Rajat Parr in spring 2009 (see "The Inside Scoop," below). "It's not that I don't like going to fine dining restaurants, but I feel like people more and more like to have a more casual environment," says Elizabeth Falkner of Citizen Cake and the soon to open Orson. "With the economy and the way it is in San Francisco these days, people want to have multiple courses, but not in that price range." Falkner's planning to open her new restaurant before the end of the year in a 10,000 square foot South of Market warehouse that has been redone by Zack deVito Architecture to feature a huge open bar, surrounding cheap phentermine 37.5 mg like area, 100 regular seats, and a private dining room for 60 and cheap phentermine 37.5 mg upstairs. The small plates menu will range from soup shots, charcuterie and duck fat fries to wood fired oven pizzas, roasts and grilled meat and seafood. Even high end restaurants like Jardiniere and Bacar have recently retooled their interior to offer cheap phentermine 37.5 mg dining Jardiniere's downstairs is now the J Lounge; Bacar has moved its weekend jazz nights and wine downstairs to Bacar Below. While those changes were largely cosmetic, David Gingrass, whose Hawthorne Lane was a special occasion favorite, went for an extreme makeover. He gutted the front cheap phentermine 37.5 mg area and remade it into Two, a funky, almost retro 68 seat room with a central 20 seat bar and 14 seat communal table. Exotic woods contrast with an earth toned palette, textured lampshades and plaid banquettes. The white tablecloths have been banished. "The attraction to formality and traditional things has gone the way of the dodo," says Gingrass. He remembers when he opened Hawthorne Lane 12 years ago, "all of the management wore suit and tie, and women wore dresses. The clientele were largely in suit and tie." But things changed, and suddenly smaller, more casual spots like Delfina and A16, which might have been written off as "funky neighborhood places" 15 years ago, were suddenly the hottest reservations in town, Gingrass says. High end dining no longer "seemed to have the same luster." Gingrass realized, "I was tired of my restaurant. It wasn't that I wasn't proud of it, or that it wasn't good. But I changed. "I'm trying to break the mold of appetizer/entree/dessert. I get bored after four bites, but there are some things that I will pig out on." Dual purpose menu Two's menu, which Gingrass developed with executive chef Bridget Branson, is designed to satisfy both kinds of diners, with hearty offerings like onion soup, slow roasted marrow bones, pizzas and small and large potions of pasta. Gingrass worried about losing his core clientele patrons in their 60s and 70s who dined at Hawthorne Lane regularly but the response has been "uniformly positive," Gingrass says. "We're doing dramatically more covers than we were a year ago about 60 percent." "It's a very casual town that knows a lot about their food," observes Andrew McCormack of Frisson and Laiola. "They want to be able to eat in blue jeans and have the best possible stuff. "In the last five to seven years, a greater portion of the population has become interested in cooking and learning more about food and seeing food less as an event based splurge and more as part of their everyday life," he says, which "drives high food in a casual atmosphere." That's certainly the case for Leyl Black of San Francisco, a 37 year old who owns a marketing company and eats out two to three times a week typically client lunches at the Slow Club and dinner at her favorite, Firefly, in Noe Valley. "We've come to expect that the food's going to be good, and I think we're better at discerning what's good and what's not so good," she says. "If you live in San Francisco and you eat out a lot, you have a lot of great meals. If someone puts something out that's not good, it's kind of shocking." Black's been impressed by some newcomers. Bossa Nova, Jocelyn Bulow's new SoMa Brazilian themed cheap phentermine 37.5 mg, is "a great place to just pop in and have a bite and drink." The hot new wine cheap phentermine 37.5 mg, District, near AT&T Park, "had these beautiful flights of wine. That's a place I definitely want to go back to." After District, she headed over to Jack Falstaff, where a friend's birthday party took over the cheap phentermine 37.5 mg area. It's diners like Black that restaurants are banking on. Most restaurateurs say that except for weekends, their crowds tend to be in their 30s and 40s. From Hawthorne Lane to Two, "the average age went from 55 to early 40s," Gingrass says, and includes more singles and groups. At Jardiniere's J Lounge, which debuted in September, general manager Greg Rowen says the goal of bringing in a younger crowd has been realized, but not at the expense of the well heeled regulars. The restaurant and bar have always drawn diners before and after the Symphony and Opera, but now "younger people are coming in at the times we want them to, at 8 p.m., when all the theatergoers are across the street." "I love being in a place where you have a CEO in one corner, and starving artist in the others, and they're all having a good time." The move away from formal dining has its roots in small plates and tapas, which became a favorite for parties or bigger groups. "Small plates have been sort of a movement for awhile, with tapas first 10 years ago," says Rowen, citing Isa in the Marina district and now closed Chez Nous as among the first small plates places. "Food's so exciting in San Francisco that people want to try a lot of little things." Another early adopter was A Cote in Oakland; more recently, Nopa and Terzo in San Francisco have found success serving small plates in a casual, friendly setting. But at other places, like Brick and Cortez, they have morphed back into larger plates, though Cortez's cheap phentermine 37.5 mg remains. Some restaurateurs have juggled both kinds of plates, and places. When Ben Doren, Dirk Cahl and Kiri Eschelle opened Levende Lounge at the edge of the Mission in May 2004, their idea was to meld "casual fine dining and entertainment in an atmosphere where people would feel very at ease, and feel at home," Doren says. Their strong entertainment backgrounds, with an emphasis on DJ music and events, resulted in their being known more as a nightspot first, and purveyor of small plates second. "I think we did have a little bit of an identity crisis for awhile," he said. But as more places started serving small plates, the novelty wore off, and the focus came back to the food. "When we opened Oakland, we didn't make that mistake," Doren says of Levende East, which opened in August in the burgeoning Old Oakland neighborhood. "We're not throwing parties here. Our primary focus is definitely on being a restaurant." Although some signature small plates, like mini lamb burgers and roasted beet salad, are offered, chef Arren Caccamo's menu emphasizes entrees and an ever growing wine list. Still, Levende East's long bar and communal table area is a big after work draw, and, like Levende Lounge, offers several dozen specialty cocktails and margaritas. In San Francisco, Sunday Boogie Brunch, with a build your own bloody Mary and eggs Benedict bars, remains very popular. Other restaurants designed to combine a hip atmosphere and food are still going strong. "At Frisson, there's a totally separate cheap phentermine 37.5 mg from the dining room," says managing partner McCormack of the Financial District restaurant, which opened in 2004. "There's a bar menu, but guests can also have the full menu in there if they want." Frisson added a specific bar menu last August featuring items like a hamburger with truffled mayonnaise, spring rolls and duck confit empanadas. Lounges won't replace actual restaurants, but their influence has affected the overall experience, and, in some cases, inspired chefs. Opportunity to experiment "Traci's now making food that she's never been able to make before," Rowen says. Signature dishes that we "couldn't take off the menu if we tried," such as duck confit salad, red wine braised short ribs and scallops, are now on the cheap phentermine 37.5 mg menu, but have freed up Des Jardins to add new items to the upstairs menu. To their surprise, the duck meatballs, rather than the pork belly sliders or short ribs, have been the hit of the cheap phentermine 37.5 mg menu. Their accompaniments currently figs and Lucques olives will change with the season. McCormack's second restaurant, with business partner Joe Hargrave, is Laiola, a more modest Spanish themed restaurant in the Marina district that's very different from Frisson. With its combination of high end tapas in a casual atmosphere, "It really represents to us what we feel like the future of dining is in this city," and will be a model for his future endeavors. Turning tables While the average check may be lower about $40, McCormack says the no reservations policy keeps tables moving more quickly, and the small size means fewer staff and less money spent on frills associated with a bigger place. SPQR, the second restaurant from the A16 group, has a similar strategy. "With labor costs going up, with the way city has tied costs to the Consumer Price Index, we feel like it's going to become increasingly hard to operate a high end restaurant," he says. Besides, he says, customers like to just stop by for a glass of wine and quick bite, or take a mix and match approach to what they're eating. "We get a lot of gals catching up over a glass of wine, then there's banquette seating around the rest of the room, where people have more involved menus." In a sure sign that cheap phentermine 37.5 mg dining is on the rise, some take issue with the phrase. "Lounge is not my favorite term," says Falkner. She wants Orson to be a "more casual, comfortable space, where you can feel like you're at someone's loft having a cocktail party." The aesthetic inspiration was Milano in Milan, Italy, an ultra chic bastion of glossy 1950s furniture and appointments, with a bar in the middle. "It was like walking into the Limn showroom," she says, comparing its design to the San Francisco modern furniture store. "Wow, I'd like to sit over there. Oh, I'd also like to sit over there." The cheap phentermine 37.5 mg at the Hotel on Rivington in New York, with its well situated small tables and open ended seats, was another influence. Orson will vary its selection of tables and chairs "not garage sale," Falkner says, but more like a beautiful living room. "We wanted to make a place that we haven't seen here yet." 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