Mangarosa - North Beach

Our friend Loren took us here one night. He squeezed us in between his dating frenzy and his Arabic class. C'mon Loren, do you need to be ANY smarter?

Anyhoo, while he's frolicking in Iceland and Norway we're in sunny Tahoe blogging away about what? Good Italian-Brazilian grub....huh?

This place is RIGHT next to one of our favorite bars Tony Niks. So we walk in and belly up to the bar and look at the drink menu. "The best margarita" is what they tout! NO WAY. How do you do that? Being the experts we are we ordered up a round and while they don't get those exact kudos, they do brew up a decent one.

We decided to stay up at the bar to eat and glad we did. For starters, Loren orders up the cheese bread. Cheese bread? Hmmmm. No hmmm's about it this stuff ROCKS. They deep fry these dough balls and inject them with cheese. So what if they lodge themselves in your arteries? They Taste Good. Continuing the Heart Health theme, we also ordered up some yucca fries, which I thought were going to be weird but we gobbled them up. Not Enough Carbs Yet! So we went in for the pastries, which are to die for: 6 of them in all, 2 cheese, 2 chicken and 2 beef...trifecta! Then we finished up with the steak which I know everyone says is the bomb, trust everyone, it is. Rare, as usual.

Everyone here seems real nice and they even have valet parking (woo hoo!). Of course we finished up the night with too many 'tinis at Tony Niks. An awesome night! Taxi!

Mangarosa
548 Stockton St
San Francisco, CA 94133