This San Francisco legend of a restaurant is irresistible. Everything on the menu comes up like real home cooking, but not just any home cooking -- the BEST home cooking! I've never ordered anything here that wasn't absolutely first-rate and top-drawer from the soups, the vegetables, the lasagna, the meatloaf, the blue-medal deserving pies and cakes, even the freshly squeezed lemonade. In how many cities across the world have I been on a business trip and wished that a local version of CHOW was there?!