Though Burma Superstar is arguably the most popular restaurant on Clement Street, owner Joycelyn Lee has created her own competition by opening a second restaurant, B Star Bar, one block away. Along with a small bar and an airy, modern feel, its greatest feature is the large back patio: an alfresco paradise. Though you’ll find some familiar dishes from the Burma Superstar menu (notably the tea-leaf salad), there’s a broad pan-Asian repertoire. The “fish as chips” is a bowl of crisp, pinky-sized fried smelts accompanied by malt vinegar and a curry aïoli, or order the kau soi, nubby noodles swathed in a coconut-curry sauce accompanied by pickled mustard greens, bean sprouts, hard-boiled egg and toasted-chile paste. Pair either with a soju cocktail spiked with lychee and jasmine tea. Let them line up at Burma—you’ve got B Star now.
B Star Bar 127 Clement St., 415-933-9900
Though Burma Superstar is arguably the most popular restaurant on Clement Street, owner Joycelyn Lee has created her own competition by opening a second restaurant, B Star Bar, one block away. Along with a small bar and an airy, modern feel, its greatest feature is the large back patio: an alfresco paradise. Though you’ll find some familiar dishes from the Burma Superstar menu (notably the tea-leaf salad), there’s a broad pan-Asian repertoire. The “fish as chips” is a bowl of crisp, pinky-sized fried smelts accompanied by malt vinegar and a curry aïoli, or order the kau soi, nubby noodles swathed in a coconut-curry sauce accompanied by pickled mustard greens, bean sprouts, hard-boiled egg and toasted-chile paste. Pair either with a soju cocktail spiked with lychee and jasmine tea. Let them line up at Burma—you’ve got B Star now.
B Star Bar 127 Clement St., 415-933-9900
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