Return of the elote! Back in season and back on the menu: Grilled Brentwood corn with chipotle aioli and queso fresco

Comal’s Roof Garden Underway!

Exciting news from Comal’s roof!  Our friend Beth LaDove from Modern Farmhouse devised a simple, scalable approach to container planting on the roof over the last couple months and this week she installed a dozen containers.  We have LOTS of additional space up there, so this is hopefully the first of several phases.  To start, we are focusing primarily on the hard to find chilhuacle negro chiles from Oaxaca that go into mole negro.  We also have a few tomato plants and some hoja santa.

Our roof has full southern exposure and the parapet around the perimeter offers some shelter from winds.  It is also a large thermal mass – it absorbs sunlight all day long and then gradually releases the heat throughout the night, creating a perfect little microclimate up there.  And thankfully it’s a white roof, so it doesn’t get too hot.  Fingers crossed that the initial plantings thrive!

JP

New plato fuerte - Wood-roasted pork loin with pipian verde and grilled spring vegetables

New menu item to mark the beginning of local salmon season: Local king salmon tartare with English peas, avocado & endive

Comal chosen as one of the Bay Area's Top 100 Restaurants by SF Chronicle's Michael Bauer

Click here to read the piece from the San Francisco Chronicle.