Michael Bauer

While service could use some work, I can never quibble about the salads and pastas at aMano.

I walk by Quik Dog, across McCovey Cove from Oracle Park, daily not knowing that it serves one of my favorite salads from Trick Dog: kale with avocado, pepitas, an egg yolk based dressing and a snow flurry of Parmesan cheese. It’s a great deal for $13 and I added fried chicken nuggets for an additional $6.

When I learned that Delfina was bringing back their roasted chicken with mushrooms and mashed potatoes for the fixed-price Restaurant Week menu ($60), I was there! This is a truly great dish and it has been off the menu since the restaurant’s remodel more than three years ago. There was also hanger steak, a choice of salad or chicken liver crostini and their famous panna cotta or profiteroles.

No one does eggs better than Foreign Cinema: a bright, vegetable infused Heavenly Scramble or a fluffy omelet made with Champagne. And I can never pass up the “pop tarts” and German chocolate cake for dessert.