Bar Agricole

Such a cute bar. The aesthetics were on point. We walked in to grab a drink before dinner and ordered from their cocktail menu. I love the open concept bar/ table look. The drinks itself were good however I pictured our drinks to be presented differently. It literally came in a small glass. The drinks were on the pricier side for such a small glass. Since we were going to dinner we didn't want to ruin our appetite so we ordered the olives. The olives were surprisingly delicious. Coated with olive oil, the olive came warm. Great service. I do hope to come back to try their food.

Such a wonderful spot. Soft lighting, tall ceilings, gorgeous artwork and layout, and good music playing in the background.I sat alone at the bar and the bartender who took my order was so charming and easygoing. I was a bit intimidated upon entering, but the hostess and Alex made me feel so at ease. I ordered several things off their impressive menu:-Smoked potatoes, miso aioli, dill-Spaghetti, preserved lemon-Brussel sprouts, preserved lemon chermoula, herb yogurt-Galette des rois Everything I had was mindfully crafted and beautifully plated. The candle with my galette was the nicest touch. Overall, very impressed with the entire production and can't wait to make this a new regular spot for me.

This is a great place for drinks and light appetizers, but would not come here for a full dinner. The positives - Golden Amaro was amazing, we got a bottle to take home. The ambiance, decor, and setting of the space was amazing. The food itself tasted very good!The negatives - The price of each dish was quite high, especially for the portion sizes that you got. $21 for a flatbread in the "more substantial" category, but the size was more like appetizer size. Overall would come back for drinks but not the food.

I was super excited to try this restaurant as my parents are friends with the owner and have always spoken very highly of it. When Bar Agricole reopened I snagged a res for dinner - we initially wanted to go only for drinks, but let me say you really need to experience dinner here.My feelings about the restaurant started off poorly. When we arrived the way the starkness of the restaurant coupled by the way the host engaged with us made us feel a bit off. We were seated at the end of a very long table and no one came to take our drink order or chat to us. We felt weird. My boyfriend joked it was like we were guests in the movie the Menu. Things took a turn for the better when our very lovely waiter, Eric, explained the cocktails to us and chatted us through the menu. We ended up getting the bread with a squash ricotta (this portion was quite small), the cheese (mini portion, but my all time favorite cheese Neal's Yard), a side chicory salad, the burger + potatoes. Everything was incredibly flavorful - simple yet gave way to truly letting the food shine. We will definitely be back. It's an experience worth checking out.

My all time favorite bar in the city. Absolutely fantastic bar program, amazing vibe and the best service.

They no longer serve happy hour. At least for now. Hopefully they reinstate it. Bar food menu is very limited. It's like one item per price range. The chicory salad is sad for $13 (two types of greens, vinaigrette, sunflower seeds). I would've gone to Rad Radish for salads instead, but alas, the bar food menu is limited and I didn't want a burger. Maybe get the potatoes if you want some light food. Drinks are ok. The space and staff are nice.

The ambience is nice and intimate. However, the service was very much sub-par. We waited an hour for our food only to find out that they served it to the wrong table. I'm not sure how that happened, but that is just not wise service. It would benefit them to make absolutely sure that they check with the table that they give the food to.

We were big fans of the original Bar Agricole, you know the one that made great tasting food and cocktails and didn't give you the feeling that you were being robbed blind. Yeah, that one, we loved it. We went there from Brunch, for happy hour when platters with oysters overflowed their tray and small tasty sausages swam on a large plate. But this, this new incarnation, this isn't even the ghost of its previous self--no--this was just bad. The menu focuses on simple, stripped down dishes that feature one ingredient. In the case of their cocktails you find lots of aged Armangacs used to jack up the price 2x of what you'd pay for that drink. Are the drinks good? Hmmmm... one was good, the other was stripped down so far that I could hardly say it was mixed at all. The service... that left quite a bit to be desired. We were seated, asked if we wanted cocktails, we had to ask for a description of the menu and portion sizes, we were not offered waters, we had to ask for those too. Nor were we told that the menu in the bar room, a more casual one that included a burger, was available in the dinning room. We found this out later when we asked and the answer was, oh do you want more food? No, we just would've liked to know what our options were. The water was refilled just before we asked for the bill. Now let's talk about the food because let's face it, that's what we're ultimately there for. It was bad. I mean not just a little bad, it was pedestrian at best, overpriced beyond comprehension and simply uninteresting. The large format salad was nothing more than a lemon and olive oil dressing, a single dimension affair with shaved cheese that didn't make sense at 25 bucks a plate. The bread, it's 11, four slices of bread for 11 and a dollop of butter. Was it chakra re-arranging? No, was it good, sure, but at 11, it soured on the palette a bit. The toppings for the bread... here's my favorite part... one was a tinned fish for 12 or 13... in my mind tinned fished alludes to some kind of preparation or something interesting being done with a smoked, oil packed tin fish. No, what we received was a smoked, oil packed tin of sardines on a plate. At that point I knew that this would be a failed outing. I was reminded of David Chang who caught flack for calling out California cuisine a la Alice Waters as just serving figs on a plate, well David, sardines in a tin on a plate--I share your outrage. There were pickled carrots, yep, just a plate of roll cut pickled carrots that weren't pickled for that long. Another plate arrived of a pork loin in what seemed like a tehina sauce with sungold tomatoes. The only real character either of us could discern was salt, an over-abundance of it rendering the rest of the dish virtually inert. The final dish was a cod prepared in a Brazillian fashion with some yucca flour. Our server described the accompanying rice dish like a sizzling rice that you'd get in Chinese restaurant--how he managed to come up with that description is beyond me. It was a paltry bowl of over steamed rice. In my mind the limited amount of options and supposed large formats of the entrees were meant to be shared family style. The main dish, at 49 a pop (so as not to give you a heart attack at being 50 or above), was barely large enough for 2 people, let's say three if they ordered every appetizer on the menu but at that price it was decidedly meager. The other animal protein option was a chicken at 49, but can't we all agree, only one restaurant gets to charge ridiculous prices for chicken and that title has long been claimed by Zuni. And there it was, our entire meal, an assortment of over priced, over salted, forgettable dishes in a albeit minimalistically lovely environment felt as sterile and unremarkable as the food set on the beach wood colored tables... blanched and bleached of the character that this restaurant used to have.

I think this place is a one and done for us. The cocktails are tasty, but they are served in very small glasses and priced at around $24 each. Really wish I took a picture of the cocktail glasses with my hand in it for scale because I was shocked. All of the food was also overpriced: $24 for a green salad with some bits of fruit on it, $24 for an appetizer-sized squid salad, a whopping $27 for a squash salad, $23 for maybe 6? small baked potatoes with a dollop of miso paste and some pickled onion rings. Sourdough bread was also overpriced with 5 slices at $11. For reference, the Morris charges $8 for a larger portion of Tartine bread. The optional spreads were priced at $9 each. Staff were nice and it was sad to see them work in an empty restaurant. I'm guessing that very few people are going to recommend this restaurant to family and friends because no one wants to overpay at this level and you don't leave feeling great about it. Basic economics will tell you that if you charge too much for your food and cocktails, you will have fewer customers. This is really a value per dollar question since there are Michelin star restaurants in SF that can charge high prices for tasting menu courses where the food is art on a plate and the experience is memorable. This isn't that. This restaurant may be able to make a profit off of each customer that comes in for the food and drinks that they consume, but operating at a low volume is going to kill this business.

Stopped in with Bob for some snacks and had this non labeled Pinot Noir from 2006 Sean Thackrey - wasn't sure if it was going to be delish or there's a reason there's no label. Jerad was cool at first, he ordered our food, talked to us for a bit, he tasted the wine then said Craig, the GM or the M would really appreciate tasting it. So we shared a glass with each of them. Then JUDAS charged us $28.00 SMACKAROO'S for a corkage charge when they had a third of the bottle - not sure maybe he wanted half of it?? 5 STARS with Craig. fascinating human being - we had a great time talking about industry and traveling for work and pleasure imbibing on excellent beverages. He even gave us a mini-tutorial on Calvados - WOW, I was in Love with this place until Robert told me later about the $28,000 corkage fee - major dbag move imo. Loved the Food and The Service - Go, it's a gem in the area.