1550 Hyde Cafe & Wine Bar

1550 Hyde Cafe & Wine Bar features California-Mediterranean cuisine, and the ingredients we use are all organic and sustainable. We are a member of the Slow food movement, and work with many small local farmers. Our grease is re-cycled for Bio-diesel fuel.

1550 Hyde also has an extensive, eclectic international wine list with many bottles under $40.

The wine list has also won a number of awards from Food & Wine, Wine Spectator, and Wine Enthusiast magazines.

Tuesdays are free corkage nights, feel free to bring in your own wine and we'll give you fancy glassware...

Sunday is industry night, show us your business card or other proof of restaurant employment (as if we don't know you by now) and get 15% off you check.

Parking is available at Polk and Pacific at the Jug shop parking lot. Mention that you are dining with us and the price for parking is $6 weekdays and Sunday, and $7 for Friday and Saturday.

Cuisine: California-Mediterranean cuisine, and the ingredients we use are all organic and sustainable.

Dress Code: Casual/Dressy

Hours: We are open Tuesday through Thursday from 6pm to 9:30pm, Friday and Saturday from 6pm to 10pm, and Sunday from 5:30pm to 9:30pm. We are closed Monday.

Entertainment:

Lioco Wine Flight

Wine & Spirits Winery of The Year 2009

Three 3oz. Pours $17.50

LIOCO is the result of a years-long conversation between Matt Licklider (a seasoned wine import specialist) and Kevin O'Connor (former wine director at Michelin Two-Star Spago-Beverly Hills) about whether California could produce a true "wine of origin." After gathering opinion on the subject from some of the world's great wine producers, we arrived at our conclusion: California can achieve a wine of origin, provided certain protocols are adhered to--both in the vineyard and in the cellar.

1. 2008 Lioco, Chardonnay, Sonoma County, Ca $7 gl $ 28 btl

2008 will perhaps be remembered as the year North Coast fruit growers would just as soon forget. Record frosts, drought, and fires made it one of the more challenging harvests in California’s history. That said, quality was superb. Like 2007, they saw a very small crop of highly concentrated, beautifully balanced Chardonnay. This wine is lower in alcohol and higher in acidity that the 07. An orgy of orchard fruits—more specifically stone-fruit pits—meet with rock dust and dried lemon peels.

2. 2007 Lioco, Carignan Blend, “Indica,” Mendocino, Ca $7.5 gl $30 btl

The 07 Indica has less tannin and more satin. The additions of some cold-climate Grenache and Mourvedre produced unexpected high tones in the wine. Now the entire orchestra is playing. Bouquet of morello cherries, red plums, and rhubarb, accented with hints of baking spice. Tastes of sour cherries, dried blueberries, and something wonderfully herbaceous. The wine will transport you to southern France.

3. 2008 Lioco, Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast, Ca $14 gl $56 btl

Firm, ripe, intense and concentrated, with vibrant black cherry and blackberry fruit that’s focused, structured, balanced and persistent, ending with a complex display of dark fruit. Plum, spring lilac and spice notes beckon - fleshing out in a broad swath across your palate with mulberry, blackberry and pomegranate fruit.