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Josh Sens Bestows Four Big Ones on Manresa

The new entrance to Manresa.
The new entrance to Manresa. Photo: J. Barmann/Grub Street

Manresa already has four stars from the Chron, but we all know that San Francisco Magazine critic Josh Sens can be a little harder to please than Mr. Bauer. In the new issue (available online only as a digitized print edition for now), Sens provides a brief update review of David Kinch’s Los Gatos restaurant, just days after Bon App released a glowing feature on the man and the restaurant’s farm. “Recently, a 12-course tasting menu sang of early summer,” Sens writes. “Kinch calls Manresa his ‘idea laboratory.’ Fair enough. It’s also an art project, grown into a masterpiece.” Sidenote: Sens’s only other four-star reviews have gone to The French Laundry and Cyrus. [SF Mag - page 110 - via Eater]

Josh Sens Bestows Four Big Ones on Manresa