{"id":130427,"date":"2026-01-12T17:24:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/130427\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T17:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:24:24","slug":"san-franciscos-besharam-is-an-homage-to-creamy-gujarati-cuisine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/130427\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco\u2019s Besharam Is an Homage to Creamy Gujarati Cuisine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Sometimes it\u2019s worth describing a restaurant by the texture of its dishes. Crispy onion pakora. Just-firm enough broccolini dusted in Parmesan. Chef Heena Patel\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.besharamrestaurant.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Besharam<\/a> knows creaminess better than any other texture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Besharam is neon-lit, coated in murals of South Asian divas. Tables sit near each other, and the restaurant is nestled inside the <a href=\"https:\/\/minnesotastreetproject.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Street Project<\/a>, a series of galleries. The staff, all dressed in black, are smiley, warm, and wonderfully attentive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Drive to Besharam; waiting for a Lyft or Uber in the Dogpatch can be annoying. There\u2019ll be somewhere to park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes it\u2019s worth describing a restaurant by the texture of its dishes. Crispy onion pakora. Just-firm enough broccolini&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130428,"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-130427","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\/130427","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=130427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}