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Winter Dinner at Roessler's in Burlingame

·San Francisco, California·#winter#bay area#dining out#restaurant
A white building with a dark half-timbered gable, "ROESSLER" sign, palm trees, and illuminated windows at dusk.

A winter dinner at Roessler's in Burlingame. We got there right at dusk, the sky still holding a little blue behind the palm that hangs over the place — an old Tudor-fronted building with the name lettered above the big paned window, dining room already glowing orange inside.

The surprise was the courtyard: a fire bowl set on top of a fountain, flames coming up out of a bed of glass over green-lit water, with cushioned benches built into the walls around it. We sat out there for a while before going in, close enough to the fire that February didn't matter.

Inside, glasses kept accumulating on the table — a couple of whites going at once, servers moving past with trays of red for other tables. Nobody rushed us. We didn't rush either.

A smiling woman is beside a fire pit with flames over a star-shaped water fountain and built-in benches.A smiling woman in a striped shirt sits at a restaurant table with wine glasses, with other diners and a waiter in the background.

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