Benu

Benu offers a set tasting menu. In order to provide you with the best dining experience, we require advance notice for guests with dietary restrictions. For guests avoiding gluten, we are unable to completely remove soy sauce. It is used in many of our base preparations.

Reduction in party size is subject to availability. If there is no smaller table available, the reservation will be...

Benu's chef is Corey Lee, former chef de cuisine of The French Laundry and opening sous chef at Per Se. His first solo venture is a soft, contemporary space with a serene inner courtyard, minimalist décor and room for 48 guests. An eighteen-course tasting menu is a well-paced barrage of canapé-size seasonal bites, comprising a three-hour journey into Lee's interpretation of new classics....

One by one, Vice's Munchies arm has come for our local chefs, spending wild evenings out with the State Bird folks and Dominique Crenn. Now, they're taking out Daniel Patterson, who spends a night out on the town with his wife. Anyone who's met Patterson knows he's a pretty serious guy, so did he get tanked? As it turns out, not really—he was still composed enough at the end of the night to...

Say bonjour to Monsieur Benjamin, the second project from Corey Lee of Benu, which opens in Hayes Valley tonight. Intended as a more casual spinoff of his high-end flagship, Monsieur Benjamin boasts a menu of reinvented French classics from Lee and chef de cuisine Jason Berthold, last seen behind the stoves at RN74. Along with GM Thomas Palauqui, they've had over a year to perfect the menu, and...

Drawing on his time as chef du cuisine at Napa's famed French Laundry, chef Corey Lee showcases his culinary virtuosity in an elaborate 13-course tasting menu that masterfully blends Eastern and Western techniques. And big flavors come in delicate packages, such as a signature amuse-gueule that includes a flash-fried cigarette of eel wrapped in Moroccan feuille de brick (a nonbuttery filo) with...

Benu is a small restaurant housed in a historic building in SOMA. We aim to distill fine dining down to the elements we find most important: precise and thoughtful preparation, exceptional products and caring service. We offer only our tasting menu, which is globally inspired, personal and comprised of the best products we can find. The menu is currently $248 per person, and an additional 20%...