Bay Area Restaurants with Daily Changing Menus Online
Out of strange curiosity, I want to compile a list of SF Bay Area restaurants with menus that change daily and are available online. I'm trying to list only restaurants which post the actual menu daily, not a sample menu or menu which is posted/changed less frequently.
Here's what I have so far:
Delfina and Delfina Pizzeria - SF
Bar Jules - SF
Il Cane Rosso - SF
Ad Hoc - Yountville
Cafe at Chez Panisse - Berkeley
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Ad Hoc
6476 Washington St., Yountville, CA 94599
Chez Panisse
1517 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709
Delfina Restaurant
3621 18th St, San Francisco, CA 94110
Bar Jules
609 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA 94102
Il Cane Rosso
1 Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA 94105
By farmersdaughter
on Jul 6, 2011 05:57 PM
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Does CP update the upstairs menu regularly now? Often I've found it a few days out of date.
Camino and Oliveto upstairs.
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Camino
3917 Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA 94610
Oliveto Restaurant
5655 College Ave, Oakland, CA 94618
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The restaurant menu is posted weekly but I seem to see the Cafe menu updated daily.
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They're still showing Wednesday's dinner menu on Friday morning. I think they update it maybe twice a week on average.
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Yeah looks like you're right. Doesn't look like Nopa updates on a daily basis either - just lists a current menu.
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Nopa
560 Divisadero St, San Francisco, CA 94117
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Local Mission
Pal's Takeaway
maybe Beast and the Hare
Some places like Mr and Mrs Miscellaneous post on their Facebook pages. Plus anyone with a cart and a Twitter account, or an iPhone app.
Please report any significant trends : )
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Beast and the Hare
1001 Guerrero St, San Francisco, CA 94110
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I was trying to avoid the Facebook/Twitter menu postings for food trucks and other mobile or temporary sites. Perhaps I should amend the original post to limit to brick and mortar restaurants.
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Brick and mortar restaurants are adding a Twitter or FB feed that displays on their websites to announce daily specials . . . although I can't think of an example at the moment, but have seen it a lot.
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I follow a lot of restaurants I like on Facebook, but that's not as much work or, to me, as useful as posting the day's menu online every day.
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That's a different thing. I'm referring to a widget on restaurant websites that displays recent posts to their twitter or fb pages. Guess it's easier for them to do this than to try to update the menupage on their site every day. You don't need to follow them on fb, you can just go to the restaurant website and see the fb post displayed there as the online daily menu. I prefer that to .pdf menus.
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Which places? I've seen that only at takeout places that only have a few items. The restaurants that update their menus daily are a mix of PDF, HTML, and PNG/JPG (ugh).
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As noted above, can't think of one right now, but I know I've seen more than a handful in recent months. Will post if I see one again.
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Nex & Mua have their Twitter feeds, though the first Nex Tweet to menu goes right back to their website menu page
http://www.nexoakland.com/
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Mua
2442A Webster Street, Oakland, CA 94612
Nex
2442 Webster St, Oakland, CA 94612
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Locanda has a widget on the upper right corner of their webpage that displays their recent Twitter posts. But they also post their menu online, which appears as if it's done daily.
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Locanda
557 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110
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Mr and Mrs is a restaurant, and their flavors change daily.
Given how most restaurant websites and menus are designed, it's a lot easier to update using text messaging or a smartphone app.
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All that MM&M updates is a chalkboard with 8-10 flavors of the day. If you have only a chalkboard, uploading a photo to Facebook and/or Twit is super-easy. Places like that are often foregoing Web sites entirely these days.
If you have a real restaurant with a fair-sized dinner menu that you update and print every day, re-entering all the dishes using a teeny smartphone keyboard would be a lot of extra work. So would breaking it up into tweet-length strings and tweeting them. And the results would not be as easily browsable by potential customers as a single Web page or PDF.
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I prefer an updated tweet to a menu that's posted monthly and doesn't match what's offered in person. And many places that change their menus daily do have a chalkboard.
Out of date website menus are not especially useful. Hence this topic.
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The opening post specifically asks about restaurants with menus that change daily that are available online.
Tweets of daily specials etc. may be useful, but aren't relevant to that request. Most restaurants I know that tweet, blog, or post on FB about specials do not keep their online menus up to date, so you get a mix of current and out-of-date info, maybe scattered in two or four different places.
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If you use a tool like MenuPro, editing a menu and generating a new PDF file shouldn't take much longer than sending a text message from a smartphone.
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Pizzaiolo does.
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Pizzaiolo
5008 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94609
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And Perbacco seems to.
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Perbacco
230 California St, San Francisco, CA 94111
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Here are some that come to mind:
Perbacco
Quince
Lafitte
Waterbar
Farallon
Coi
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Also, the online dinner menu for Acquerello seems to have a current date in the lower right corner.
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Nopa, Gialina, Bar Agricole (I think)
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Gialina
2842 Diamond St, San Francisco, CA 94131
Nopa
560 Divisadero St, San Francisco, CA 94117
Bar Agricole
355 11th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
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The Sentinel and Golden West
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Golden West
8 Trinity Pl, San Francisco, CA 94104
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Boulette's Larder's lunch menu - http://www.bouletteslarder.com/menus/...
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Boot and Shoe Service, Oakland http://bootandshoeservice.com/
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Boot and Shoe Service
3308 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA 94610
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Naked Lunch - http://www.nakedlunchsf.com/
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Flour and Water makes a decent attempt at keeping their menu up to date but it's usually a few days behind. That said, I have yet to see a menu posted with any radical changes upon arrival.
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Flour + Water
2401 Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
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Slow Club and Serpentine.
http://slowclub.com
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Slow Club
2501 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
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Blue Plate also updates its website daily, although not sure how much of the menu changes.
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Blue Plate
3218 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
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Nojo
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Nojo
231 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102
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