Best Tapas Restaurants in North Panhandle / USF

We have eaten at Coqueta several times over the years. Excellent, modern Spanish food at its best. What made this particular visit so special was our server Nikolas. A very knowledgeable and friendly guy. Can’t say enough about Nikolas. Coqueta is not a cheap Place to eat, but the combination of excellent food, outstanding service and a beautiful location makes for a great outing!

First time at Bansang - we'll be back! The tapas style menu is good for a group as you can order a lot of dishes to share (we were 5). Started with the small tapas - note that the food comes out fast- had we known, we would have asked our server to slow the service. We had the mulhwe noodle - a cold raw fish and noodle dish- was excellent! It was large enough to share amongst us 5. Light & refreshing- a must order. The uni scallop toast was amazing - one order can be shared for two people. Its a bit pricey - but you can tell the ingredients are super fresh. The charred broccoli was so good - perfectly cooked and the slight bitterness from the char balanced with the back bean paste aioli. We had one order - and everyone got to have a taste. The jjimdak bao was amazing. We ordered one bao for each of us (we should have shared instead) - the braised chicken was so tender and juicy and the bao was light and pillowy. The soy glazed potato was a revelation. Soft and tender fingerling potatoes and the soy glaze was an umami bomb of goodness. Sunchoke & truffle was delicious - pricey (truffles) but worth it. Rice cake & chorizo was surprising in that the flavors mimicked a pepperoni pizza? It was really good - we ordered two of these. You'd think we had enough - but we had to try the large tapas - 1 order of the gochujang black cod was enough for each of us to have a small bite. Had we not filled up on small tapas, we would have ordered 2 of these. The galbi rib eye was tender and tasty. If we had to skip one dish - it would be this. It was really good, but not surprising like the other menu items. Radish kimchi fried rice - addictively good - would have ordered 2 of these too. For desserts - we ordered 1 of each of the 3 offerings. The date cake was the best of the 3, pear sorbet needed more pear flavor and the banana ice cream was good but not memorable. With two bottles of wine and a cocktail, bill was $570 (w/o tip). Pricey but worth it!

A wonderful neighborhood gem with delicious food and outstanding service. We had an excellent time. Highly recommend.

Very good food, attentive service. Sitting in the main hall was a bit windy whenever the front door opened

An SF classic - unbeatable views & history. Fantastic live band & dancing.