Pacific Cafe

• Restaurant: Pacific Cafe
• Location: San Francisco: Outer Richmond
• Atmosphere: Clean, noisy, casual and relaxed.
• Bathroom: Clean, but not great
• Date of visit: 2006
• Website: None

After watching a review of Pacific Cafe on the Food Network and Check Please! Bay Area, I had Pacific Cafe in my head. Fresh fish is all I could think of for weeks. What a bust. I should have known better when I heard they give you free wine while you wait. No restaurant worth its salt would do this. It’s a gimmick; I was blinded by the fools on Check Please Bay Area. I wish I didn’t go, I wish I had my $30 back… I got hoodwinked.

Fresh Fish? Not when I ate here. I had the seared tuna cooked rare. I had that itchy feeling all over my body that indicates something is afoul. The tuna completely lacked flavor. I could have done a better job buying suspect tuna at the UN Plaza farmer’s market and cooking it myself. The wasabi dipping sauce tasted like green butter with wasabi you get from a tube. This place is a real joke; the food taste funny.

The wait is unbearable. It really kills me that a place like this has a line out the door starting at 5pm. Hey, I’m not unaccustomed to long lines, but the food better be worth the wait. It’s not here. I can only think of so many other places I could have spent $30 on a great meal. Please don’t go.