Award-winning chef Gary Danko has come to epitomize sophisticated contemporary cuisine. His 75-seat restaurant, Gary Danko, located in the heart of one of San Francisco's most prominent residential districts, is the culmination of his dream to create one of America's great restaurants. Treat you and your loved one to a special night to remember with a $400 gift certificate to this Michelin star restaurant! 

Chef Danko combines classical training with focuses on French, Mediterranean, and regional American cooking. He incorporates influential culinary traditions from around the world into his own work, adding seasonings and techniques drawn from Asia and India. He infuses precise technique with creative flair and adventuresome spirit to create a cuisine of great finesse and balanced flavors. Danko is dedicated to using seasonal, locally grown and raised foods. He forged close relationships with artisan cheese, meat, and produce suppliers long before other chefs discovered the virtues of this approach.

He is widely recognized as one of America's most talented and respected chefs. His achievements include a James Beard Foundation "Best Chef - California" award and reflect his lifelong pursuit of excellence in the culinary arts. Danko's successes can be attributed to his many years of study and hard work, combined with an innate ability to create dishes of both elegance and depth that evoke the simple pleasures and warmth of homecooking.