![]() ![]() When diners enter, they’ll find themselves in the lounge and bar area the dining room is further back, adjacent to a sleek wine-filled private dining room. D-Scheme Studio did the design, featuring a slatted ceiling, velvet accents, and a mural of the vault door in the lounge area. ![]() Enter the Vault, though, and it’s all dark walls, leather banquettes, and cleverly designed lighting (really, who needs windows). It’s technically subterranean, reached by descending beneath the building into a lobby hallway. Hi Neighbor partner and beverage director Jason Kirmse leaned into the wine and beer list, and bar manager Tyler Groom added some very alluring martinis to accompany the menu of bar snacks like Parkerhouse rolls with add-ons like cheese fondue and caviar.Īs for the space itself, there are no windows. A chocolate lava tart with stout-marshmallow ice cream should be an appropriate follow-up, part of chef Tara Lewis’s extensive menu of deserts. Song’s Korean influences sneak their way onto the menu, too, with a dash of gochujang and kimchi in various dishes. The densely packed downtown dining crowd will now have access to a menu from chef Robin Song ( Gibson, Hog and Rocks), who has waded into what the restaurant has dubbed “Americana.” That translates to dishes like a classic raw platter, but in addition to jumbo shrimp cocktail try some Fort Bragg uni, local oysters, and Singing Pink Bay scallop crudo a Caesar salad is made with Riverdog Farms little gems with pecorino, anchovy, and sourdough crumble. “The location, the building itself: You have to match your clientele.” That clientele (specifically the building’s tenants) have exclusive access to the private wine and liquor lockers behind the bar, where they can store fancy booze for their own banker-y purposes.īut, though those tenants get first dibs on liquor storage, the Vault is one of the newest high-profile fine-dining openings to hit the FiDi in some time. It was the driving force behind the restaurant, says partner Ryan Cole. That building, owned by NY-based Vornado Realty Trust, is teeming with high-paid employees at companies like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley who are presumably in the market for martinis. That restaurant, The Vault, opens today in the bottom of one of the city’s priciest office buildings, the Bank of America building at 555 California, debuting a fine dining menu and aesthetic built, literally, in a former bank vault. When Stones Throw closed in Russian Hill last year, Hi Neighbor Hospitality Group was already in the planning stages for a new restaurant, one that heralded a different direction for the group’s partners, whose brand has been built on neighborhood gems: Trestle, Corridor, and Fat Angel. ![]()
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