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Alma Restaurant
Latin American, Bars $$$$$
1101 Valencia St. (b/w 22nd St. & 23rd St.)
San Francisco , CA 94110
Latin American, Bars $$$$$
1101 Valencia St. (b/w 22nd St. & 23rd St.)
San Francisco , CA 94110
| (415) 401-8959 See all Mission, South of Market (SoMa) restaurants |
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2 reviews Alma
By Food Musings Apr 05, 2005
Alma translates as "soul" in its native espanol, and on our way home from dinner there the other night I found myself wondering why chef/owner and Nuevo Latino pioneer Johnny Alamilla named it thus. Was he being aspirational (cooking as creativity from way deep down) or straightforward (food as comfort) or was he subconsciously crafting ambiance (let's give this place some SOUL, man!)? I dunno. But any of these certainly fit what he's created. FULL REVIEW
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By Vinography Jul 15, 2004
When the moors invaded Spain, they brought rice with them, and spices, and when they departed they left behind palaces, and a legacy of cooking that developed over the next few thousand years, until it was imported, along with misfortune to the Americas. There it stewed, on the central and southern continents with new ingredients lent to it by native diets, Portuguese traders, and Africans in the Caribbean, slowly evolving into the many facets gathered together under the approximate banner of Latino cooking. Back in Spain, cuisine continued to evolve as well, pushed in new directions by the French and the rest of Europe. If you’ll forgive me this oversimplifying, reckless condensation of three thousand years of complex culinary evolution into one paragraph, let’s just say these two streams of culinary evolution are now highlighted in what we in San Francisco call “Nuevo Latin” cooking. FULL REVIEW
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