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Sumika
Japanese
A glass-encased grill loaded with imported binchotan charcoal sits at the center of the room, which tells you more about this izakaya than any menu description could. Sumika is the kind of skewer-and-small-plates spot where the smoke does the seasoning, from pork-wrapped enoki to grilled chicken finished with sour plum sauce. The oyakodon, smoky chicken over rice with a barely-set egg, is quietly the thing to order.
One honor, in evidence:
The record strongest first
- San Francisco Chronicle Best Japanese restaurants in the Bay Area
One number, weighted & current 65
How we scoreThe dishes from the writeups
- Chicken knees San Francisco Chronicle
- Enoki mushrooms wrapped in pork San Francisco Chronicle
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