Best suckling pig in S.F Eastern and Western Style

[irbaboon]

I will be in SF in Oct. What are currently the best places to get suckling pig A)asian style and B) European style? Also are there any restaurants where you can order a whole small pig for your meal?

[Ron Goodwin]

I have always enjoyed the suckling pig in beer sauce at Suppenkuche.

[bernalgirl]

My recent experience with Suppenkuche's suckling pig was a very tough, stringy piece of meat with a very gluey bread dumping. I ended up yearning for my tablemate's meat loaf.

[irbaboon]

Anyone got know of any more places that serve European style Suckling pig?

[irbaboon]

Any new info on this for me? I leave at the end of the week

[contessa]

Jack Falstaff has excellent suckling pig you can order.

[irbaboon]

Same again, I will be in SF at the end of this week!any new or note worthy places in Chinatown for suckling pig?

[kc72]

http://www.chowhound.com/topics/424113

[irbaboon]

Some good recomendations for asian style at your link, but what about european style. Also, where gould I get a very small whole one as a meal? as was featured in the Bizare Foods Spain episode?

[Robert Lauriston]

Incanto's also discussed in that link. They'll cook you a whole one.

[PekoePeony]

Was in Madrid a couple years ago and that suckling pig at Casa Botin was darn tasty! :) One thing that was really unique about Botin, which I've never seen elsewhere, is that they really use *suckling* pig -- the piglet is quite small and looks to be about two weeks old. All other "suckling" pigs I've had including Cuban, Asian, etc are definitely not at the suckling state (I grew up on a pig farm and we weaned them off at 1 month; Asian/Latin suckling pigs look to be about 2 months old).

The closest you'd probably get to the Spanish suckling pig is the Latin style at Cuban or Puerto Rican restaurants -- sadly I don't know any in the area to recommend, but hopefully other chowhounds can!

[Melanie Wong]

Yet another interesting factoid from you, P2! I've been told that suckling pigs are under 15 lbs., is that the 2 month level?