161 Sutter St
San Francisco, CA 94104
415-641-5291
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A casual, contemporary restaurant serving the timeless health cuisine of Japanese Zen using vegetarian, organic and sustainable ingredients. The name sounds a little unappetizing, but there is a reason. MEDICINE's cuisine is called shojin and is from Zen Buddhist temples in Japan. Shojin is sometimes translated to mean "working to better oneself," or more loosely as "medicine". They call it an EATSTATION to set it apart from traditional restaurants' formality. MEDICINE is a simple place to eat: most of our seating is on two-person benches at beautiful long communal tables made of sustainably harvested mahogany.