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Tadich
Grill, 240 California Street, is a local institution that dates back
to 1849, when regular steamboat service to California was inaugurated,
the same year Abraham Lincoln celebrated his 40th birthday. Connoisseurs
of great seafood will appreciate the Oysters Rockefeller, Crab and Lobster
Thermidor, and Dungeness Crab and Prawns a la Monza here. The Tadich is
a favorite of Vivian and Marion
Brown, San Francisco's good will ambassadors. The term 'California
cuisine' originated with the Tadich Grill, which began as a humble coffee
stand. The restaurant is at the center of a legend from the late 1800's
about local politician Alexander Badlam, who boasted at the Tadich -
then on Clay Street - that it would be a cold day before he
was turned out of office by voters. He soon was and the Tadich became known
forever after as "The Original Cold Day Restaurant." |
