Craftsteak produced my best meal of this visit, but Prime finished a close second, every bit as good this time as it was when I ate there several years ago, with Mr. Simon at the range.
The second time I ate there, he insisted that we sit at the sushi bar and let the sushi chef, Jerry-San, recommend.
When I ate there Sham had just returned from a stint in France apprenticing at Le Jardin des Sens and Louis XIII.
I ate there and the food rivals what you would expect to find at any casual dining restaurant in the Bay Area.
(Although, let me note, the dinners I had at Egg, all very recent, were more impressive than the last breakfast I ate there, which was over the summer).
"I ate there a hundred times with him," he said.
"For years I ate there for free," Mr. Lew said.
"I lived there, I slept there, I ate there".
"Frankly, I'm a vegetarian, and it's been 20 years since I ate there," he said.
Prizes seemed unlikely after I ate there in April, when the restaurant was six weeks old.
Both nights I ate there, the food was well made and sometimes brilliant.
