Copra

1700 Fillmore St, San Francisco, CA

This is the kind of place where every dish is an conversation: bold, intelligent, unabashed. You’ll begin with delectable cocktails and a chutney palette that tastes like color and heat. Ghost chili, tamarind, coconut sambal — each flavor a sharp punctuation.

Then the dosa arrives, paper-thin and ethereal, sometimes topped with black truffle shards to flirt at the edge of expectation. The fried chicken holds its ground with fennel seed, chili, masala crumbs. Street food that’s elevated, but never fawning.