Salt House San Francisco
written by John Chow
Last night Kontera Technology took us to the Salt House restaurant for a mega 11 course tasting menu. Salt House is San Francisco’s newest hot spot. The 75 seat restuarant is housed in an old printing press warehouse built in the 1930’s. Salt House serves contemporary American fare ranging from raw bar plateaus to house made charcuterie, appetizers and heartier main course.
Salt House is alway packed with diners and is very noisy when the place is full. The sound level is probably increased due to the sound echoing brick walls and windows. You have to talk very loud if you want to make sure the people at your table hears you. I wouldn’t recommend it if you’re looking for a quiet romantic evening. However, for our party of five, who just wanted to kick back and relax after a full day of Ad:Tech, Salt House was near perfect. And so was their food.
Our 11 course dinner started with oysters on the half shell and ended with chocolate malt Bavarian cake for dessert. Dinner lasted nearly three hours from start to finished. I’ll have to walk the entire show floor at least 10 times to work it off. Enjoy the photos. Hope it doesn’t make you too hungry.
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John, how does it feel to have a better Alexa rank than ShoeMoney? Although, I see you went from 5k to 17k… ouch!
Alexa rankings don’t mean that much when you have almost 24K rss readers.
The ranking game still gets some peoples attention. That is why http://www.45n5.com is successful. People want to know how they measure up. In the process while everyone is checking their own stats, they visit the top sites and generate even more traffic. Just like the rich get richer, the top traffic getters get more traffic.
So what is the appropriate way to measure a blogs value and worth if all the traditional measurements are thrown out the window.
Wonder what those “traditional” measurements are. A value to a site without the real stats provided from the webmaster all are “guess-it”. But you can collect a heap of date and presume that the value of a site is X or XL (including, pagerank, alexa ranking, rss readers etc)
I’ve never been able to get my site ranked on that blog. I don’t know why. I do have online income, quite a decent amount, I do have PR/Alexa/Technorati… but still no joy… Could someone tell me why?
Rankings like that don’t mean a thing anymore. PageRank, Alexa, Technorati…all went out the window.
Agreed. Alexa is total garbage. I did a case study on it a few years back and was able to get into the top 20k easily.
In a nut shell, how did you get your Alexa ranking up? I agree it’s not worth too much, but some advertisers still look at it and a higher ranking could only help.
I’m been moving up quickly in Alexa. I just strive to get link backs and SEO traffic.
How did you get your ranking up so quickly? I agree it’s not really worth much, but some advertisers still look at it.
Yeah, John’s Alexa rankings are really not that important, it’s what he “does” with the traffic that’s amazing…
On the side note John, next time you are in SF (or if you are still here…), I gotta take you out to “the best sushi” in town called Oyaji’s. A drunken sushi master from Japan runs the joint and everybody who lives in San Francisco knows he is the best chef in town. This guy only opens at night and gets drunk the whole time he makes sushi. I got my motivation from going to this guy’s restaurant when I used to live a block away.
Here’s directions if you are staying another night and feel like some authentic sushi and sake from the master:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/oyaji-restaurant-san-francisco
It seems that shoemoney also have been suffered from the alexa ranking change. They have an announcement, I posted about it
Eh, I’m always reading that Alexa ranking doesn’t mean anything because the stats are wrong most of the time.
johns alexa ranking makes a LOT more sense now. He was in the top 3000 before, which is ridiculous. He gets decent traffic, but not top 3000 site traffic.
Hahaha Alexa ranking is nothin with the present bulk of visitors JOhn gets everyday. By the way I like the food at Salt House basing on your photos. sounds great, tastes even better..hhmmm
John CHow is not using his KOntera content link here but he’s still getting $1000 per month…amazing
You are right!
I don’t think John even cares about Alexa or Google PR
Hey John, I saw you tweet this and was hoping you’d write about this. Looks delicious.
Yeah, I am looking forward his comment on alexa change.
Those oysters look phenomenal, as does the tuna.
It seems like John has a thing for oysters. They’re kinda slimy to me.
go ahead, rub it in!
Wow, those scallops look delicious. I’ll have to check this place out next time I’m in SF.
Also, I heard that you mistook Max Lee for me at Ad Tech. Pretty cool that people are wearing around my WTW t-shirts…
How appropriate… Looks like Kontera is turning “scallops” into an ad.
Mouth watering!
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How much of that stuff did you eat yourself?
Good question. I’d probably only be able to eat maybe two or three of those & then dessert.
Looks like a nice dinner. The 11-course tasting menu sure gives you a fair bit of variety compared to the three courses you get during Dine Out Vancouver.
Ranking?? Who cares about ranking. I just want to eat this delicious, tantalizing foods.
I agree layman ….the food looked incredible.
John the mega 11 course tasting menu looked very tasting. I am confused why the west coast serves oysters on the half shell. I live in Myrtle Beach and oysters should be shucked. The best part of eating oysters is the opening process. Just like the best part of the blog is adding content. By skipping one process of the oyster eating ….the palette does not get the full flavor.
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I love delicious food like this one, getting hungry.
That all looks pretty yummy. Its nice that you can go out and review other establishments instead of staying strictly online. Great post!
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I always get to see your updates more earlier than this blog in twitter. Good pics and the food seems to be a delicacy. Kontera coming with anything new lately?
it looks like yummy yummy!!!!!=)
but salt let think imagine about sedom the place……..
What I would have to give up to be in your place?
Wow it is nice to be a successful Internet Entrepreneur. You get invited to nice dinner everywhere you go.
Those oysters look good. I haven’t had a decend dinner lately since my wife went home.
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don’t you know to cook?
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I am glad this is just a picture and not in front of me because it would be gone!!!
The 8th meal looks delicious. And the last dessert looks tasty as hell.
I still hate oysters though. Ew.
The oysters look familiar…. are you sure you’re not still in Whistler?
Haha just kidding, that meal does look absolutely incredible! Very, very nice of Kontera to do that for all of you!
the deserts look amazing! the rest though i wouldn’t touch.. i don’t like seafood, and i like meat but only when it’s cooked. still a nice gesture from kontera mind you, and since i’m not the one eating it, what does it matter!?
Wow. It all looks yummy. Makes me hungry. We don’t have any good places for dishes like that around here. I miss stuff like that. Those oysters really look good!
Quite nice pictures
I’d say I’m fairly hungry after looking at those scallops. Damn.
woohoo, the pics looks so fruity.
I wish Kontera call me sometime later
Your pictures made me hungry! Nice rare meat and awesome looking oysters. If it weren’t 3,000 miles away I would go there!
lol, you wud go and eat John’s meat
hehe I won’t resist either .. the food look pretty good.
I cant imagine eating for 3 whole hours. For me the most is 15 minutes tops. LOL