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President Obama dines at Spruce during San Francisco visit

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Spruce. Photo: Deanne Fitzmaurice / The Chronicle

Spruce. Photo: Deanne Fitzmaurice / The Chronicle

President Barack Obama spent Friday night like many San Francisco special occasion-seekers and well-to-do Presidio Heights residents: Dining at Spruce.

The POTUS had dinner at Spruce with Elon Musk (Tesla), Marc Benioff (Salesforce) and a dozen other Silicon Valley heavyweights after “a day of cybersecurity talk and cash collecting.”

The dinner took place in Spruce’s Laurel Room, which is one of the restaurant’s three private rooms. According to the restaurant’s website, the dinner minimum for a private party in the Laurel room is $3,000. Apparently, Benioff made the reservations, and from the restaurant’s point-of-view, Obama was a last-minute surprise. According to a Spruce rep, neither they nor other diners in the restaurant had a clue that Obama was coming — until he showed up.

Sadly, Spruce is not sharing the menu for the occasion, as they were asked by the presidential people to not disclose any food details; the dinner took about two-and-a-half hours.

So why Spruce? Some theories: For one, it’s located on a quiet block off major thoroughfares, far away from the traffic mess of downtown, which was one reason Obama declined to stay at his usual hotel. Also, Spruce’s private room(s) likely played a key part in the security side of the decision. On the food side, the Michelin-starred restaurant is fancy (entrees $29-$42), but without the sensationalism and possible backlash of the $150-$200/person tasting menus that grace so many of San Francisco’s upscale restaurants these days. Chef Mark Sullivan’s usual dinner menu itself (click here to view) is full of familiar ingredients and well executed American cuisine dishes.

For more on President Obama’s San Francisco visit, check out Carla Marinucci’s report.

 


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