Lazy Bear

Lazy Bear Fine dining restaurant serving a unique tasting menu rooted in nostalgic flavors
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A dark rye tartlet from Capay Mills flour, spread with olive oil jam and house ricotta made with buttermilk left over fr...
09/04/2026

A dark rye tartlet from Capay Mills flour, spread with olive oil jam and house ricotta made with buttermilk left over from our house cultured butter. Baby red radishes, breakfast radishes, Tokyo turnips, and their greens are dressed in a vinaigrette of nasturtium capers, fermented green garlic, green garlic vinegar, nasturtium oil, then finished with a dark rye crumble colored with activated charcoal and fried black olive.

The onion ring is fried in a beer batter made with Standard Deviant Kolsch and filled with caramelized spring onions and spring onion soubise. An allium aioli and scatter of society garlic, dusty onion flower, sierra red onion flower, and garlic chive blossoms.
A play on the leek and potato soup, the leek panna cotta starts with a milk and cream base that is infused with leeks, spinach, and meyer lemon zest then blended, and set with gelatin. It is then topped with a gel of smoked beef bone marrow rendered over the hearth, lending a savory, smoky, rich finish. Zuckerman Farm’s Yukon Gold shoestring fries and wild chive flower deliver texture and fresh allium notes.

Superior Farms lamb chops, frenched and dry aged seven to ten days to pull excess moisture, develop a bit more funk, and...
08/31/2026

Superior Farms lamb chops, frenched and dry aged seven to ten days to pull excess moisture, develop a bit more funk, and tenderize the protein. We sear the lamb racks whole to render some of the excess fat then marinate them in a mixture of fish sauce, sugar, garlic, and dijon mustard. We cook them sous-vide then finish the chops on the grill, basted with a BBQ sauce built from charred spring onions and green garlic, Cynar, sherry, and brown sugar.

Alongside, grilled and marinated baby artichokes with an artichoke purée: hearts cooked to tender in barigoule then blended with Cynar and butter.

To utilize the entire rack, we’re curing the cap of the ribeye in salt, brown sugar and black pepper before smoking it to turn it into lamb bacon. We crispen it then finish the artichoke hearts with a wild assortment of mints, bitters, and blossoms. The excess fat itself is aromatized with alliums, wild herbs, and peppercorns to compliment the richness of the lamb chop.

The lemon bar is the kind of thing you find at a bake sale, a potluck, or a grandmother’s kitchen counter. It found its ...
08/29/2026

The lemon bar is the kind of thing you find at a bake sale, a potluck, or a grandmother’s kitchen counter. It found its way onto the menu this spring. Brown butter shortbread, bergamot curd, blood orange gel, and an Earl Grey milk tea foam. Bergamot from K&J Orchards, sits somewhere between a bitter orange and a lemon, sharp, floral, and intensely citrusy and happens to be the sole flavoring behind Earl Grey tea. Topped with California wildflowers.

On July 28th, we built an entire evening around a single ingredient: corn. Yellow, Bloody Butcher, White, Oaxacan Green,...
08/24/2026

On July 28th, we built an entire evening around a single ingredient: corn.

Yellow, Bloody Butcher, White, Oaxacan Green, Bicolor, and Hopi Pink varieties ran through the whole menu, sourced from some of our absolute favorite producers; Ghiggeri And Stonebarger Farms, Tierra Vegetables, and Full Belly Farm. From a baby corn elote and a crème brûlée made with yellow corn and Hokkaido uni, to a braised oxtail & blue corn masa tamal, a shrimp and grits pasta built on fresh bicolor corn grits, and a grilled pork rib with watermelon molasses BBQ sauce alongside classic corn on the cob. Thank you to every guest who joined us. The final dinner of our Summer Series—Bear-B-Cue—is coming up and we can’t wait.

Our snack trio.A buckwheat tartlet filled with fresh horseradish cream and a beet tartare: beets roasted, smoked, and de...
08/19/2026

Our snack trio.

A buckwheat tartlet filled with fresh horseradish cream and a beet tartare: beets roasted, smoked, and dehydrated for chew and smokiness, dressed with horseradish, dill, pickled ramps, and Meyer lemon, finished with a pickled Chioggia beet garnish.

A twice baked Zuckerman Baby Yukon, freshly dug and confited in clarified butter. The interior is scooped, worked into a pomme purée with fermented green garlic, crème fraîche, Fiscalini White Cheddar, and Vella Dry Jack, then piped back into the shell and garnished with black truffle.

A honeynut squash flan: roasted honeynut custard set with brown butter Sauternes caramel, toasted pumpkin seed crumble, and Tsar Nicoulai Golden Osetra caviar.

September in the Bay Area has a way of feeling like a second summer, even as the first signs of fall start to show. Figs...
08/15/2026

September in the Bay Area has a way of feeling like a second summer, even as the first signs of fall start to show. Figs and blackberries will be at their best, and chanterelles will be coming in steadily from the forest floor. This month we’ll also be working with two producers we’re particularly excited about. Helen Hollander, who runs an independent small farm operation, raises the squab we look forward to each fall. And Mountain View, a third-generation family farm out of Turlock that raises Berkshire and Duroc crosses outdoors. They finish the hogs on California almonds, making for a deliciously well-marbled and rich product with a depth of flavor that’s hard to come by.

September tickets are live. A few August dates also remain if you’d like to join us sooner. Link in bio to book!

This dish was a showcase for Dandelion Chocolate’s 70% Wampu. This unique cacao from Honduras has a subtle toasted marsh...
08/14/2026

This dish was a showcase for Dandelion Chocolate’s 70% Wampu. This unique cacao from Honduras has a subtle toasted marshmallow and almond praline flavor all on its own. Here we leaned into chocolate’s indigenous American origins with supporting ingredients from one of our favorite farms, Tierra Vegetables, using their heirloom corn and dried chilies

We sprinkle in some crispy cake trim coated in pâte à glacer for a fudgy crunch. Then we place a chile-infused marshmallow, and top it with a 70% Wampu crémeux. Finally we place a cacao cookie half-dipped in pâte à glacer and encrusted with candied Dandelion cacao nibs.

At the table, 70% Wampu chocolate seasoned with cayenne, cinnamon, and nutmeg is poured over like a sipping hot chocolate.

On July 16th, we welcomed Meghan Zobeck and a full table of guests for the first dinner of our 2026 Summer Series. The w...
08/05/2026

On July 16th, we welcomed Meghan Zobeck and a full table of guests for the first dinner of our 2026 Summer Series. The wines were extraordinary, the conversation lively, and the room had that distinctive Lazy Bear energy. Thank you to everyone who came and made it what it was, and thank you to Meghan for sharing the wines of her career so generously with us!

Tickets for August were just released. Tomatoes and sweet corn are going strong, joined by eggplant, jimmy nardello pepp...
07/15/2026

Tickets for August were just released. Tomatoes and sweet corn are going strong, joined by eggplant, jimmy nardello peppers, shish*tos, habanadas, and fresno chiles—a full spread of peppers that gives the menu a range of heat and sweetness we don’t have at any other point in the year. Wild huckleberries and the first apples and grapes signal that the season is beginning to think about turning, even if it isn’t quite ready yet.

Link in bio to purchase!

Our 2026 Summer Series begins with an evening welcoming Meghan Zobeck, Director of Winemaking at Opus One, on Thursday, ...
06/19/2026

Our 2026 Summer Series begins with an evening welcoming Meghan Zobeck, Director of Winemaking at Opus One, on Thursday, July 16. Zobeck’s path has taken her through harvests in Piedmont, Bordeaux, the Barossa, and Chile, through Stag’s Leap, Screaming Eagle, and Burgess in Napa, and most recently to Opus One, where she shapes the wines from vineyard through winery. Alongside this work, she runs her own label, M.Zobeck.

The menu will be built around what’s being poured: Opus One, Screaming Eagle’s “The Flight” Merlot, Bon Pasteur, Clos Apalta, and more. Served communally at 6:30 PM. Tickets are $1,000++ per person, pairing included. Link in bio.

Our take on a root beer float, this duo provided a fitting closure to the meal, carrying diners full circle back to fora...
06/18/2026

Our take on a root beer float, this duo provided a fitting closure to the meal, carrying diners full circle back to forager’s tisane that starts each meal at Lazy Bear.

We made a buttermilk brioche donut, glazed in a root-forward maple syrup infused with sassafras, burdock, angelica, nasturtium, wild fennel, and chicory root.

Next to that, we served a proper root beer float: wild fennel root soda made with sassafras, burdock, eucalyptus, wild fennel, chicory, and sarsaparilla, and finished it with a little scoop of yeasted ice cream (with lots of naturally occurring diacetyl—butter flavor—from the alcoholic fermentation of the dairy).

Nostalgic, delicious, and wild.

Address

3416 19th Street
San Francisco, CA
94110

Opening Hours

Tuesday 6pm - 11pm
Wednesday 6pm - 11pm
Thursday 6pm - 11pm
Friday 6pm - 11pm
Saturday 6pm - 11pm

Telephone

+1 415-874-9921

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