Sheldon Davidow

Review of SPQR SF

Our lunch with them was not satisfactory at all. A...

Our lunch with them was not satisfactory at all. All four of us ordered pasta. Two of us were satisfied with their dishes though they were small and no one sang their praises. My wife's pasta with blue cheese was acceptable but I could have made the dish better and with more care at home certainly. My dish of some kind of squash flowers and Nasturtium flowers was simply inedible. It is singularly the most badly imagined and executed food I can recall ever having in a San Francisco restaurant. The waiter took it off the bill but I could find nothing else on their menu that looked interesting..

As a offer of apology for my dish the staff brought a zuchinni bread desert for the table. AS nice touch but the bread was much too sweet and covered with a cloying and almost tasteless sweet sauce. At least they tried to make up form their short comings.

The service was excellent. I waiter could not have been nicer. I do not understand if he was wearing a black shirt with polka dots or if they were stains. In any event it was a little distracting.

The room is small and dark and had nothing much on the walls to relieve the gloom.

Prices seemed high for the simplicity and small portion of the food and the menu choices were limited.