Posted Nov 8, 2007, 5:45 PM
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From SFGate.com:
Mina to open in Millenium
Celebrated chef Michael Mina and his longtime wine director Rajat Parr will open a new restaurant and wine bar in the under-construction Millennium Tower (301 Mission St., near Beale) in San Francisco.
The duo has named their establishment RN74 after the thoroughfare that goes through the Burgundy region of France.
RN74 will be Mina's second in San Francisco. His first - the elegant, Barbara Barry-designed Michael Mina - is located in the Westin St. Francis on Union Square.
While RN74 won't open until spring 2009 at the earliest, Mina and Parr have already mapped out their concept, although they'll continue to fine-tune. The 4,700-square-foot bar and dining room will be on the ground floor of the 60-story luxury condominium complex, which is also slated to open in 2009. They've hired Avroko, the New York firm that designed popular restaurants like Quality Meats and Odea Lounge in that city.
Mina and Parr told Scoop they're going for a young, lively space - sounds like they're in line with the restaurant-lounge trend (see "The Lounge Act" on Page F1).
"We want it to be accessible - high energy," says Mina, whose San Francisco and Las Vegas restaurants have received critical acclaim.
Parr says there will be an emphasis on Burgundywines, but the lounge, which seats 60, will serve California, Rhone and Bordeaux bottles as well. A temperature-controlled enomatic machine will dispense 50 wines by the glass, plus there will be a sommelier on hand to educate patrons. A communal table for 16 will sit near the tasting machine.
Mina plans 70 seats in the dining room, where the menu will be moderately priced French-American cuisine - "foods that we love to eat," he says. A typical menu will offer five vegetable dishes, five fish, five pork and poultry items, and five meats.
"I just want it to be very relaxed," he says.
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