Good Taste is a menu for eating well in the Bay Area. Subscribe to our newsletters, including Good Taste, for more weekend-exclusive food & drink news delivered to your inbox. This week we’re diving into the upscale world of Michael Mina—check out Marke B.’s visit to Mina’s new Bourbon Steak San Francisco in Union Square here.

On October 8, chef and restaurateur Michael Mina and NBA star Stephen Curry rode a cable car down to The Westin St. Francis to cut the ribbon at the new Bourbon Steak San Francisco restaurant and The Eighth Rule bourbon bar. There was a man on horseback outside, and inside, the wall-to-wall tall guests lined up for canapés and dancing girls shimmied everywhere. E-40 was there, so it was a real Bay Function.

That event was too packed for this invited claustrophobe t

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