Roka Akor - San Francisco

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco's Jackson Square (on the north side of the Financial District), Roka Akor is modern in approach, Japanese in spirit, and features a contemporary, chef-driven menu with dishes meant to be shared. Menu highlights include exquisite cuts of prime steak, rare Wagyu from various regions of Japan, grilled seafood, and sushi. Roka's signature robata grill creates...

San Francisco's Roka Akor delivers contemporary robatayaki (open grill) Japanese cuisine in a highly stylized setting. "Ro" means hearth and "ka" means burning fire; a hearty fire with a ladder of grills above it, allowing different intensities of heat, is center stage in the large open kitchen that anchors this vast, modern, burlwood and tall-windowed space. Dishes are artful and sometimes...

TipsForJesus, the mysterious collective that has been randomly distributing extravagant tips to servers as a form of charity, struck in San Francisco last night, giving a $3,000 tip on a $147 bill to a server named Hilary at Roka Akor (who is understandably "thrilled"). The restaurant says that the tipper was "a gentleman in his 40s, tall with dark hair, very friendly and nice." As we learned...

Dine About Town, SF's answer to Restaurant Week, kicks off tomorrow (it runs through January 31), and for the second year in a row, we're offering our picks for the restaurant deals that fly high or fall flat. Though the $18.95 two-course lunches and $36.95 three-course dinners are designed to draw diners to spots they might not otherwise try, many restaurants use DAT as an excuse to push tired...

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A Contemporary Japanese Restaurant.

Dec. 11, 2015 - This glamorous Japanese restaurant screams expense account, but really considering the quality, it's well worth the price. The over-the-top, pristine fish flown in from Tokyo and highe...view morest-quality A5 quality Wagyu beef will make you swoon. The bar downstairs is cozy and intimate and offers some terrific happy hour specials on food....