Obelisk

Obelisk is one the city's most consistently excellent restaurants. Service and food are simply superb. In this pleasantly spare room that seats only 30, the walls are decorated with 19th-century French botanical prints and Italian lithographs. Obelisk serves sophisticated Italian cuisine made of the freshest-possible ingredients. Each night, diners are offered two or three choices for each of five courses. Dinner might begin with an antipasti misti of zucchini fritters, deep-fried risotto croquettes, and garbanzo beans with tuna in olive oil; followed by sweetbread and porcini ravioli with sage butter; and then an artfully arranged dish of grilled stuffed quail and duck sausage with spinach, or black bass with peppers, fennel, and green sauce. A cheese course and dessert follow. Breads and desserts are all baked in-house. Chef/owner Peter Pastan's carefully crafted wine list represents varied regions of Italy, as well as California vintages.

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