{"id":122355,"date":"2026-01-06T17:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/122355\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:20:13","slug":"decadent-contemporary-french-food-lights-up-a-quiet-stretch-of-san-franciscos-financial-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/122355\/","title":{"rendered":"Decadent, Contemporary French Food Lights Up a Quiet Stretch of San Francisco\u2019s Financial District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Chef Bruno Chemel and his wife Christie were known for their Palo Alto restaurant Baum\u00e9, which maintained two Michelin stars for nine years in a row. The Chemels, along with son Antoine Chemel, have since left those stars behind them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/food\/article\/Baume-in-Palo-Alto-has-two-Michelin-stars-13015803.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by design<\/a> to open <a href=\"https:\/\/sf.eater.com\/venue\/109588\/le-parc-bistrobar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Le Parc Bistrobar<\/a>, a French restaurant that channels some of the refinement that made its predecessor a tire guide fave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Dinner. The menu doubles for the restaurant\u2019s lunch and dinner offerings, with hefty meat and fish entrees (and their associated dinner-level pricing). This spot feels more like an appropriate place for an evening out, unless you\u2019re fine with ordering smaller dishes from the appetizer section.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Longtime fans (and perhaps new fans) of the Chemels and Baum\u00e9 will be pleased to know that the restaurant hosts a monthly Baum\u00e9 pop-up with limited seating. Reservations can be made via email at <a href=\"https:\/\/sf.eater.com\/dining-report\/210485\/mailto:baume@leparcbistrobar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">baume@leparcbistrobar.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chef Bruno Chemel and his wife Christie were known for their Palo Alto restaurant Baum\u00e9, which maintained two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[28829,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-122355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-dining-reports","9":"tag-san-francisco","10":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","11":"tag-san-francisco-news","12":"tag-sf","13":"tag-sf-headlines","14":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}