The Stinking Rose: A Garlic Restaurant
1991
San Francisco’s first restaurant to celebrate the
euphoria of garlic.
Ancient Roman soldiers dubbed the pungent herb garlic “the stinking rose”. They believed garlic made them extremely strong and extra virile and rubbed their bodies with garlic oil before going into battle.
The Stinking Rose: A Garlic Restaurant is known for seasoning its garlic with food.
North Beach, Little Italy of the West.
Marker is on Columbus Avenue south of Vallejo Street, on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
