State Bird Provisions

1529 Fillmore St, San Francisco, CA

The quail “State Bird” hits with audacity — crisp skin, succulent flesh, smartly dressed with shaved parmesan and slow onions. The pan-seared dumplings with guinea hen and shiitake taste like a handshake between East and West — gentle but knowing. 

State Bird Provisions isn’t a restaurant so much as an act of culinary theater — the kind where the stage keeps shifting and you’re never quite sure what scene you’ve wandered into. Dishes arrive like unexpected guests at a dinner party: small, brilliant, unpretentious, and entirely too interesting to ignore.