Waterbar

Waterbar is located at 399 Embarcadero South in San Francisco and serves lunch between 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Waterbar Ben Worthen 2011

Waterbar is a few blocks outside the normal lunchtime range of workers in San Francisco's Financial District.

Waterbar Ben Worthen 2011

Keeping with the disclose-everything trend, Waterbar's menu lists where a fish was caught and in some cases includes the name of the boat, so diners who had the grilled Tombo tuna recently were told it was hook-and-line caught by the "Mariah" off Honolulu.

Waterbar Ben Worthen 2011

Emily Luchetti, pastry chef at San Francisco's Waterbar and Farallon restaurants, makes hers using a mix of Cacao Barry and Valrhona cocoa powders.

Foodies Feast, Family-Style Melanie Grayce West 2011

"You can move outside of the office and get psychologically transported to a place that makes you feel really good," said Pete Sittnick , a managing partner at Waterbar.

Waterbar Ben Worthen 2011

Waterbar, a rare new-construction project on the Embarcadero, took five years to build.

Waterbar Ben Worthen 2011

Pete Sittnick, managing partner in San Francisco's Epic Roasthouse and Waterbar, a $12 million pair of restaurants that opened a year ago, says he has been successful in removing such charges -- roughly $20 to $30 a day, five days a week -- from about 20% of his food deliveries.

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For grown-up versions of childhood classics, Waterbar in San Francisco is offering Peppermint Patties - white chocolate peppermint mousse with a chocolate glaze - and Boon Fly Cafe in Sonoma has s'mores, with milk chocolate malt ice cream, house-made graham crackers, toasted marshmallow and chocolate fudge.

SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter jhu@sfchronicle.com (Janny Hu 2011

Waterbar overlooking the San Francisco Bay where we ate dinner our last night on the West Coast and where every menu item tells you how the fish was caught, and where.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Eileen Ogintz 2011

And Neil Young was at the Salesforce.com gathering at Moscone Center and also at Waterbar last week.

SFGate: Top News Stories Leah Garchik 2011