Matthew Dolan, a Culinary Institute of America graduate who cooked at Café des Artistes in Manhattan and Emeril's in New Orleans, co-founded 25 Lusk in 2010 and still runs the kitchen. The setting is the draw: architect Cass Calder Smith built the room inside a 1917 brick-and-timber warehouse that once served as a meatpacking and smokehouse plant, threading polished steel, glass and slate through the original beams across two open levels, with a lounge below and a rooftop above. Thrillist named it the best-designed restaurant in America. The kitchen runs seasonal New American with global accents and a deep wine list, on an alley in China Basin steps from Oracle Park. Come for a cocktail in the lounge where the architecture sets the tone.