Uva Enoteca Restaurant Review:
Opened by Mario Batali disciple Boris Nemchenok, Uva Enoteca brings the best of New York City’s Italian enotecas to San Francisco. Located in the increasingly stylish Lower Haight, Uva’s simple, chic décor (high ceilings, hanging Edison bulbs, exposed brick, dark hardwood floors), all-Italian wine list and boisterous, hip crowd make it the perfect place to swing in for a few nibbles or a full...
The Haight has seen a recent resurgence in its dining scene, which can largely be attributed to the arrival of gems like Uva Enoteca. The narrow wine bar with its exposed brick and intimate setting could easily be found in New York's West Village and is a breath of fresh air among Haight Street's other shoddy offerings. Start with a speck and apple purée bruschetta and meat-and-cheese...
Italian wine and small plates in the Lower Haight.:
A cigarette flick away from a biker bar, sniffing distance from a barbeque joint and across the street from a tattoo parlor, this wine-and-small-plates bar is a dapper exchange student in the Lower...