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Bauer Appears to Like Maven

The bar at Maven.
The bar at Maven. Photo: Brian Smeets/Grub Street

There appears to be a full-length review in the works for Maven (598 Haight Street), the pairings-focused restaurant from chef-owner David Kurtz and partner Jay Bordeleau, and Michael Bauer hints today that he’s a fan of the place. He writes that Kurtz’s dishes “never cease to pleasantly surprise me,” focusing especially on a simple dish of asparagus with a poached egg, smoked-bread “soil,” black garlic, and pickled rhubarb. When his review drops (we’re guessing in a week or two), it will be the only formal review of the place thus far besides Virginia Miller’s in the Guardian. [Between Meals/Scoop]

Bauer Appears to Like Maven