Down to your last stock options? Eat at SF's newest bistros!
Reasonably priced bistros are thriving in San Francisco, providing French food with a West Coast accent, according to this New York Times story (registration required):
The bistros are appearing at a convenient time, too. "The San Francisco economy has been completely decimated in the past two years," said Meesha Halm, the editor of the San Francisco Zagat guide. "Our two biggest industries are high tech and tourism, so the high tech industry was gone before, and then 9/11 destroyed tourism. So basically we lost the out-of-town diners as well as the big expense accounts in the local economy."
...If I were surviving on my last few stock options, I would make Chez Papa Bistrot in Potrero Hill my cafeteria.