In effort to dine at all 3000 San Francisco restaurants(900
and counting), my wife Linda and I recently had the pleasure to dine at Cafe
Jacqueline. Located in the heart of foodie heaven, North Beach, Jacqueline
Margulis has been making her soufflés since 1979.
Jacqueline is now in her young 80’s and still makes each
soufflé for her many happy patrons. The charming restaurant has been voted one of San Francisco’s
most romantic restaurants. Matthew the server has been working there for 25 years
providing attentive, excellent service. In addition to soufflés, they have a nice selection of beer
and wine and onion soup that will soothe your soul. Some patrons just go there
for the onion soup, glass of wine and dessert soufflé.
Jacqueline was born and trained in Bordeaux, one of our
favorite foodie city’s and makes her light heavenly masterpieces 5 days a week.
If she is on vacation or sick, the restaurant closes.
They have an open kitchen and she loves to talk to you while
she works with precision and effortlessly like a world class surgeon preparing
these masterpieces.
I went into the kitchen and had the pleasure of watching her eyes twinkle with joy as she prepared our gruyere cheese soufflé and grand mariner dessert soufflé that she recommended for us. The soufflés are large and served for 2 people.
She said, “I love seeing the joy and happiness that my soufflés bring to my patrons. I don’t know how much longer I can do this but I hope it is for many more years. It keeps me very happy and young.”
I went into the kitchen and had the pleasure of watching her eyes twinkle with joy as she prepared our gruyere cheese soufflé and grand mariner dessert soufflé that she recommended for us. The soufflés are large and served for 2 people.
She said, “I love seeing the joy and happiness that my soufflés bring to my patrons. I don’t know how much longer I can do this but I hope it is for many more years. It keeps me very happy and young.”
We hope she can continue for many more years. In our “high
tech, hurry, hurry” life, the process to create these heavenly works of art
takes around 2 hours. So if you are not in a hurry and want to enjoy something
sensational and special, this is a “foodie must do experience”.
