Really comforting and modern decor, friendly service and authentic pizza. Delicious! Smoked eggplant pizza was to die for. No one flavor outdid the others. Margherita pizza also fab. Highly recommend for a laid back pie.
Really comforting and modern decor, friendly service and authentic pizza. Delicious! Smoked eggplant pizza was to die for. No one flavor outdid the others. Margherita pizza also fab. Highly recommend for a laid back pie.
This restaurant definitely lived up to the hype! Had a party of four so did the pasta tasting to try a little bit of everything family style. The pastas were better than the pizzas but the chocolate bundino dessert stole the show - so good!...I was surprised that the bill was not significantly pricier than their Penny Roma restaurant down the street.More
It was so good we went two nights in a row! The food was absolutely amazing! Do not miss going to this place. I don’t think I would bring my little kids here, but definitely a night out with your significant other or friends.
This highly regarded and difficult to secure reservation was absolutely meh. The portions were small, options limited and taste ok. Def not worth the hype. Also beware, they add tip—even for 4- but don’t point it out, so you could pay more than you want...if you aren’t careful.More
Right from the start the hostess, who’s name I did not get, was so nice and welcoming. We were a little late to our reservation due to a bad uber driver lol. I was able to email the restaurant and let them know, so it...was a little stressful. We weren’t sure if we would be able to dine here. So it helped alot that we were greeted in with a huge smile and welcomed in. This was our first experience here. Our servers and the rest of the staff were just so nice, helpful with understanding the menu and always made sure we were doing okay. The food was just ridiculously good. We shared the hamachi crudo and shishido peppers as an appetizer. I had the squid ink pasta. Ugghhh the flavors im these dishes sooo yummy. Simple presentations but you can taste the love in these dishes. I can’t remember the names of the other entrees we had but it was all so enjoyable. I hope to be back when I visit SF againMore
We visited Flour + Water yesterday to celebrate a birthday. The music was awkwardly too loud to hear the rotating band of waiters attempt to describe each plate through the tasting menu. The food was good but not great, and for the roughly $1k for...four people I won’t be back anytime soon. One person in our party selected the vegetarian tasting menu while the other three selected the normal tasting menu. Our plates came out mismatched and incorrectly portioned. The service wasn’t horrible but it definitely didn’t justify the price—imagine the loudness of an Ibiza beachside club, with throbbing bass, and you at your table crammed in the corner with masked waiters fumbling plates and the few words that escaped the music and masks were glazed with sass. Yikesaroni!More
The sandwiches are huge. We were here at lunch time. They have mostly sandwiches for lunch. I had eggplant parmesan sandwich. And my husband tried their "special" of the day. You enjoy a sandwich at lunch, and you don't need dinner after that:)
This is a review of the flour + water location on valencia (which doesn't appear to have a separate TA entry). We went there for dinner after seeing a show. From browsing their website I saw a "Book Now" link to Resy which surprised me...because I had heard they didn't take reservations. I went ahead and made a booking. When we showed up at the restaurant we were confronted by a staffer who pretty rudely said "we don't take reservations" to which I said I was confused and she eventually said "that was for our other location. we don't take reservations." Boy, talk about an unpleasant greeting! She informed us it'd be a 45 min wait so we decided to wait. After walking around Valencia St we headed back to wait at f+w. Instead of the surly staffer there was a different woman at the front. This woman, I think her name is Arele (not sure of the spelling), was an absolute joy! She was friendly, warm, welcoming, and helpful. Despite having to tell people that they had an hour wait, she did it with a smile and pure charm. She offered an outside table under heaters which we declined, saying we could wait for an inside table. Arele more than made up for the initial unpleasant greeting we had received. Our waitress was similarly chipper and friendly. Eventually we got seated and ordered a bunch of food including mozzarella sticks, a kale salad, a few pies, and eventually desert. All the food was great, zero complaints. It was a bit pricey coming out to over $300 for 4 of us, but that included a bottle of wine, a couple cocktails, and a couple beers.More
Great location - small with a cozy ambiance and with amazing pasta. Reservations open at midnight 28 days before the date you want, and within 24h, most of the good times are gone. There are seatings 5:30/5:45, 7:30/7:45 and 9:30/9:45 so if you want something...around 7, book at midnight. It will likely be gone in the morning. There is a walk in seating but if you're not there by opening, you can expect a 3 hour wait. But yes, the pasta is worth it.More
Uncomfortable chairs. Loud music that doesn’t match the food. Service suboptimal- waiters aren’t “professional waiters” and some have no idea how to wait table. Nice small italian wine menu for outrageous prices ( a lot of the wines on the list are considered table wines...in Italy). Pizza dough needs improvement. Boudin - dessert, delicious, outstanding! Panna cotta- terrible, inedible. Pasta dishes- they are trying too hard. Pasta is a simple dish with one , at most two ingredients.... Need to study with a good traditional italian chef. I wish them good luck. Will not return.More
We were a party of three and tried five different pastas. All were very good, we liked the one with balsamico best. Wine was good, especially the Valpolicella and the Sangiovese. After having paid one of us was still finishing his wine when the waitress...already cleared the table. That was really quite disturbing.More
Would highly recommend the vegetarian pasta tasting menu...all dishes were gorgeous and even my husband who thought it might be too adventurous for him really enjoyed it! There was a slight discrepancy (as the waitress put it) with our first dish but I let them...know and they brought an extra dish to say sorry - great service. My only slightly negative comment would be that the food came out very quickly. It didn’t matter to us as we were super jet lagged but I think usually we would have rather enjoyed the evening for a little longer. I think that is purely just because of the amount of people that want to go there that they get the food out so quickly. Overall excellent meal and would love to come back next time we’re in San Fran! Thanks!More
Pasta dishes live up to their reputation, but the dishes we ordered were delivered so quickly and so haphazardly that our table was jammed with plates and many dishes were lukewarm by the time we ate them. Servers were very nice, but the meal felt...rushed as if the restaurant wanted us in, fed and out quickly. The pizza was underwhelming--easy to find better pizza in SF.More
Flour + Water is well worth the wait. We had a group of five people. The service is excellent and food was amazing. The flavors in the food popped and were so good we ordered seconds. We enjoyed taleggio scarpinocc, Pizza margherita, tagliatelle with veal...bolognese, and Pizza Fiore di zucca. I am definitely going back.More
Worth a trip to the mission district. Innovative cuisine makes the wait worthwhile. If there is a long wait leave your cell phone number and go to Shotwell's Bar, a few blocks away.