Food | E''Angelo''s Restaurant | Ferry Building | Italian restaurant

Where do you like to go for dinner?
The Slanted Door is a great restaurant in the Embarcadero. There are a lot of small restaurants down in the Embarcadero. The Ferry Building is full of restaurants, shops, and bookstores, and if you want, you can take the ferry over to Marin from there. Mojito is a Mexican restaurant. The Slanted Door is one of the best restaurants in the city; it's hard to get in. Make your reservation early. They have an automatic reservation service, so you can't even pull face there. Kind of Vietnamese, pan-Asian. They do a lot of combinations of a lot of different food. I'll give you some small restaurants: PJ's Oysterbed in the Sunset, which is a really fun neighborhood restaurant in one of the old, classic neighborhoods in San Francisco. There's also E'Angelo's Restaurant, which we love just because it's a great, small Italian restaurant. Oh, God, there's a lot of Italian.

Tell me about Rubicon, the restaurant in which you have an interest.
Sweet, small restaurant. We've always had great chefs and a great wine list. It has an upstairs and downstairs because it was a bank. It actually had three floors. It's just a very good, more quiet place. It used to have the artwork of Robert De Niro's father. Even though we own interest in it, we like going there because it's just a good place. Another great restaurant is Jardinière. The chef is Traci Des Jardins, who just won a James Beard Foundation Award for the best chef in the Pacific region. Another wonderful restaurant, for lunch and breakfast, is Citizen Cake - very sweet place. The Zuni Café is great. That's one of the first places my wife, Marsha, and I used to go to, and we've seen it grow from one room to two to three to four to five. Their Caesar salad is my favorite thing. I kind of survived on that for a long time. They serve a latte that almost comes in a small tub - it's in this huge coffee cup that you're going, Oh, what is this, a pool? And they have a great, wood-burning pizza oven. You could spend days in Berkeley. Chez Panisse is just wonderful because it was one of the first organic restaurants that specialized in California cuisine. Alice Waters has always been very much about growing the food and being really whole and pure. She knows where the vegetables come from because she grows many of them.