Damefine debuts in the Outer Sunset with wood-fired pizzas, Italian
The pandemic has cemented our really like affair with ease and comfort foodstuff — main amongst them pizza and to-go cocktails. DamnFine (3410 Judah Road), a person of the newest places to eat to grace the Outer Sunset, is intent on remaining a a person-quit destination for all that and far more.
We’ve all come to be accustomed to ordering takeout from our favored eateries and watering holes it’s one particular of the lots of lifestyle byproducts to occur from the pandemic. (In simple fact: I pose as significantly as even to say that our palettes have expanded around the past ten or so months — now that we’re all at the mercy of our residing home and espresso tables, which can now stand in for Michelin-starred activities). Pizza continues to be a continual source of enjoyment in our new yr of semi-isolation. And DamnFine’s artisanal, wooden-fired pizzas are vying for a top place among the most effective pies in San Francisco.
While, as a recent excursion proved, you however will need to reheat the pie after finding house.
I took it on myself to take a look at the new pizza spot from pizza-maker and operator Laura Seymour, housed in a former therapeutic massage parlor, last week, and I arrived at an all-way too-common sight for San Franciscans these days: a propped-up picket desk gating the entry, wherever a Sq. sign up was saddled next to miscellaneous paraphernalia, amongst which included ballpoint pens placed in both a container labeled “clean” or “dirty.”
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I scrolled by the pizzeria’s on the web takeout menu prior to arriving, and in addition to an array of appetizers and salads, 8 signature pizzas also make up their existing menu, including the Sausage and Sage, Potato Pesto, and Clam It Up pies. (DamnFine also gives the possibility to increase further toppings to each individual of their possibilities, and each and every comes in a single dimension that steps all-around 14 inches.) Even so, in the identify of trying to keep items straightforward and simple, I went with a experimented with-and-real typical: a single Margherita pizza.
Waiting for my pizza to be discovered amongst the selection of cardboard bins — every sheathed inside of an insulated black delivery bag — the tiered bar commanded a glance. Unable to move the erected desk, we took in the industrial backsplash and a number of peculiar, domed lights structures fixed to the wall from afar.
DamnFine’s bar menu presently gives a range of Italian wines and some to-go cocktails. Seymour’s business companion and husband or wife-in-existence, Colin O’Malley, who also operates Sunset Cantina, the tequila bar instantly future to DamnFine, plans to extend its offerings before long coffees and espressos, morning pastries, and other baked goods are anticipated to develop into available at Damnfine in the near future.
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Opening concerns and in general occupied-ness are impacting the timing for finding one’s to-go orders — and we all know that wood-fired pizzas are ideal eaten new out of the oven, so takeout-only guidelines (which thankfully close this 7 days) are putting pizza spots like DamnFine at a disadvantage. I was instructed to choose up my pizza about an hour following buying, but what was in the box by now appeared to be lukewarm by the time I obtained it and colder by the time I got it property, so refreshment in a 400-degree oven was vital.
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The char on the crust — manufactured from a higher-protein flour combine and allowed a three-day chilly fermentation for less difficult digestion and improved taste — presented a welcome acidity to the if not muted mozzarella. Sprigs of contemporary basil, tomato sauce, and a generous drizzling of olive oil all arrived with each other in what was, definitely, a damn fantastic pie.
If the quality pizzas coming from DamnFine’s wooden-fired Stefano Ferrara pizza oven remain consistently this superior, we may perhaps have a different terrific pizza contender on our hands — and a single that inhabitants of the westside primarily will be flocking to for years to occur.
Damnfine is open Wednesday by way of Sunday at 3410 Judah Street, involving 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. estimated prep occasions are usually all over 30 minutes per purchase and stroll-ups are also welcomed. For more details on Damnfine, as well as to peruse their present takeout-only menu, stop by damnfineco.com.
