Baker & Banker may sound like a brokerage firm, but dining won't cost a fortune at this restaurant that replaced Quince. Husband-and-wife team Jeffrey Banker, the chef, and Lori Baker, who is in charge of pastries, craft a menu that subtly touches all parts of the world: cauliflower soup with Indian spices, tempura with fried shiso leaves, soy- and mirin-braised black cod with foie gras sticky rice, and duck served with parsnip gnocchi. Baker's sweets are worth a trip alone. Michael Brennan created a handsome, masculine-looking brasserie with comfortable leather banquettes.

 
Specialties: Calamari a la plancha with chicory; citrus and hearts of palm salad; house smoked trout with celery root latke; bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin with semolina spaetzle and cherry reduction; Triple X dark chocolate layer cake; brown butter doughnuts.

Hours

Dinner 5:30-10 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday.

Cuisines

• American
• California

Features

• Beer and wine
• Corkage ($20; waived for each bottle purchased from the list)
• Disabled Access
• High Chairs
• Parking: Difficult (Valet $10)
• Reservations: Accepted