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1. Lers Ros
No surprise here that Larkin Street's Lers Ros -- which is just about to open a second restaurant in Hayes Valley -- is SFoodie's favorite Thai restaurant in San Francisco. Chef-owner Tom Silargorn makes all his curry pastes in house, prepares venison and frog with the same skill he does pork and chicken, and makes few concessions to the American palate. His steamed sea bass with chile and lime is a masterful juxtaposition of silky and sharp. His pad phed dishes pulse with chiles and green peppercorns. And his crispy pork belly, coated in a sweet-hot glaze and tossed with basil leaves, is exactly the dish that you want at midnight after a show at the Hemlock Tavern and a few cocktails at the Lush Lounge.
