Frisée Restaurant
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The environmentally conscious couples avoid wrapping paper because it can't be recycled. As for greeting cards, they make their own from materials found around the house. Instead they’ll stroll up the block and treat each other to a neighborhood restaurant that offers food grown locally.

Brothers and business partners, Brett and Nathan Niebergall, launched Frisée in the Castro District featuring organic gourmet cuisine served in a chic and modern setting.

With a combined thirty years of experience in the industry, the Niebergalls developed the Frisée concept to meet the organic and locally-grown (locavore) demand. They selected the name Frisée (a gourmet lettuce), because the name is simple, yet it has an air of sophistication about it. “It’s not snobby. The name reflects our dishes; simple, clean, and elegant." Says Nathan Niebergall.

The brothers believe that healthy food should be affordable and accessible to everyone. They create dishes that most people wouldn’t recognize as being healthy and insist they are. The menu offers epicurean entrée salads with deliciously slow roasted or grilled meats. Their house-made dressings, organic cheeses, fruits, and vegetables perfectly compliment every menu item.

A good starter is the assorted satay, which resembles a crown of thorns. It’s a wreath of tarragon prawns, sugar spiced filet mignon, and rosemary chicken tenders are spiked into half a lemon and surround it with three sauces; sea salted merlot reduction, champagne basil vinaigrette, and roasted chili aioli.

For dinner try the amazingly tender braised chicken. It’s slowly braised with white wine, house made chicken stock, apricots, garlic, onions, thyme, and cherries. It is served with lemon and thyme zest mashed potatoes, house candied pecans, and sautéed baby spinach lightly finished with a chardonnay apricot reduction.

Cordon-Blue Chef Brett Niebergall says Frisée will shift the paradigm of quick-service dining, as we know it today. “Our organic ingredients are sure to surprise and delight our customers,” he adds.

Frisée’s exceptionally affordable wine list boasts biodynamic and organic wines from regions such as Argentina, Northern Italy, Australia, and France. “In creating the wine list, we wanted to offer our guests great tasting and affordable wines that are made using biodynamic or organic methods,” said Nathan Niebergall. friséerestaurant.com

Frisée Restaurant 2367 Market St. San Francisco CA 415-558-1616 Hours: 7 days a week, 11am - 9pm