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Food – Two
Michael Bauer, September, 2007
"Fresh ingredients and simplified cooking are at the heart of San Francisco chef David Gingrass’s revitalized and renamed restaurant."
Dining Out – San Francisco
Harvey Steiman, August 31, 2007
"Two of the most talked-about spots to hit San Francisco in the past few months invovle serious chefs who aim for something a lot less formal than the upscale kitchens they built their reputations on."
Bar Bites – TWO
Amanda Gold, August 23, 2007
"Though many still come in for a sit-down dinner, it's just as fun to grab a seat at the oversize oblong bar, chat up the friendly bartenders and grab a bite along with one of Two's specialty cocktails."
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Hawthorne Lane is Reinvented as Two
Patricia Unterman, August 23, 2007
"The message: be comfortable, settle in, have a bite or a big feed, drink affordably...The food, hearty and now simply presented, bears the trademark of Gingrass and executive chef Bridget Batson: big flavor and unbashful richness."
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Refined Hawthorne Lane Reinvented as Rustic TWO
Michael Bauer, April 15, 2007
"Much like marriages, restauarants sometimes endure the 'seven-year itch... Hawthorne Lane, which David Gingrass opened in 1995 with his then-wife, Anne Gingrass, was one of the city's hottest restaurants. But he recently threw out everything he was doing and came up with a new concept and name – Two."
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Take TWO
Robert Lauriston, April 11, 2007
"The decor's a sort of fantasy retro, a mix of '60s and '70s, all brown and beige, narrow vertical and horizontal lines, with a dash of surreal sci-fi goofiness — antler chandeliers, shaggy lampshades, tendrily metalwork poking up from odd corners. It feels a bit like hanging out in the comfy living room of a sophisticated but not at all stuck-up rich friend with an odd sense of humor. . . The food's good, you can order as much or as little as you like, the staff is friendly, the seats are comfortable, and it's open when lots of other places are closed. Plus, TWO passes the toughest test: Having done more than enough research for this review, I went back on my own nickel."
Born Again
Kimberly Yen, April 2007
"Restaurants have been going the way of Nip/Tuck—opting for extreme makeovers . . . Most recently, upscale Hawthorne Lane evolved from business-dinner formal to a hip, retro-chic restaurant called Two. There, chefs Bridget Batson and David Gingrass aim to satisfy just about every craving with their eclectic menu, which features such dishes as garlicky spaghetti with sea urchin, house-made headcheese and doughnuts filled with a tart raspberry preserve. "
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At Home with David Gingrass: Chef-Restaurateur Renovates 1970s Napa House
Susan Fornoff, August 23, 2006
"Remodeling is as delicious as cooking for David Gingrass, and now the proprietor of San Francisco's Hawthorne Lane restaurant has proven himself to be an authority on the former. His salute to the 1970s in the Stonecrest neighborhood of Napa -- a gutted-and-updated Brady Bunch-style house with, of course, the kitchen as its focal point -- bears his fingerprints on everything but the plumbing."
