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Medicine Eat Station

By A Few Reservations   Jun 16, 2007

I could write a full review of Medicine Eat Station, but I’m too disappointed. More like heartbroken. Man, have they changed. It ain’t what it used to be, folks. Not by a long shot. Gone are the tasting menus, and the endless varieties of vegan deliciousness. Now there’s a counter where you step up to order, and bento [...] FULL REVIEW

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Taking your Medicine

By Daily Feed   Jun 14, 2007

Sometimes ordering something "good" doesn't mean you're ordering something good. FULL REVIEW

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Medicine Eat Station - A restaurant for masochists

By Hungry Hedonist   Jun 16, 2006

I had wanted to eat at Medicine Eat Station ever since I first learned about it. From the description on its site: "The Zen monks of Japan say that food should be taken simply as medicine for the health of the body. Over half a millennium, they have created a seasonal cuisine called shojin to express this ideal. At MEDICINE, we call our cooking new-shojin because we have given it a unique edge, and incorporated modern nutritional ideas. We serve this food at our eat-station a quick, everyday place-to-eat, joyfully liberated from the formality of traditional restaurants." FULL REVIEW

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Menu Snapshot: Medicine Eat Station

By Mighty Foods   Apr 19, 2006

Influenced by the cuisine of Zen Buddhist temples in Japan (called shojin) the Medicine Eat Station in San Francisco offers up a mostly organic, vegetarian menu. FULL REVIEW

A dose of austerity

By Hedonia   Mar 08, 2006

Lunch today with fellow gastronomist Greg (who, incidentally, had ideated a superhero for Burning Man named Hedon) at (the unfortunately named) Medicine Eat Station, in the FiDi. He's been before, and enticed me by saying it was the closest thing he's had in the city to the food he'd eaten in Japan. Noting that his girlfriend is from Osaka, and Medicine serves Kyoto-style cuisine, that seemed logical. FULL REVIEW

Restaurant Roundup: Ame, Medicine Eatstation, Saha

By Food Musings   Jan 16, 2006

Medicine has made the old Faz space in Crocker Galleria utterly unrecognizable. Long communal tables with sloping sides are unadorned except by the occasional bottle of soy, and lucky diners get to gaze out onto Sutter Street from up high. A panel of flat screen TVs against one wall displays soothing images of flowers and trees in an attempt to calm, but the hyped up lunch crowd is anything but. FULL REVIEW

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Medicine Eat Station

By Cooking with Amy   Oct 07, 2005

Medicine. Does that sound like a restaurant? I didn't think so. But then I had a chance to eat there and experience what "new-Shojin" style eating is all about. It's a cuisine grounded in Zen Buddhism. The food is vegan and excludes even onions and garlic. Why? Because this is food to support spiritual enlightenment. It is not meant to excite the palate or stimulate the senses. If you can accept that as the premise behind the cuisine, you have a better chance of appreciating it as I did when I got a chance to try it at an event a week ago. I shared a meal with Joy so check out her review over at Confessions of a Restaurant Whore. Incidentally she seems to remember the meal in much better detail than I do. FULL REVIEW

Doctor's Orders

By Confessions of a Restaurant Whore   Oct 07, 2005

When I received an invitation to a press dinner at Medicine, I just couldn't wait to go. After hearing what NS had to say, and looking at the website, the whole thing just seemed so out there that I needed to know what sort of drugs were behind the whole operation. I invited Brian, my editor, to join me because I knew that if it wasn't any good, he'd be able to laugh about it. Dependable guy that Brian is. FULL REVIEW

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