Lamb loin chop from One Market in downtown San Francisco

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Hotel Vitale, a Joie de Vivre hotel

San Francisco Marriott Marquis

If there are two ingredients that sing of spring, it’s lamb and asparagus.

To celebrate both, the Lark Creek Restaurant Group is partnering with California asparagus growers and lamb ranchers to showcase those ingredients on menus at four of its San Francisco Bay Area restaurants through the end of the month.

Guests also can take home recipes for each dish to recreate them in their own kitchen.

Here are some of the dishes you can enjoy:

in downtown San Francisco, within walking distance from the Hotel Vitale, will be serving up warm, grilled Zuckerman’s Farm asparagus salad with 62-degree Marin Sun Farms chicken egg, as well as grilled Sonoma lamb loin chops marinated with espelette chili and garlic.

Asparagus Salad from LarkCreekSteak

, also in downtown San Francisco, steps from the Marriott Marquis, will feature pan-roasted local asparagus with toasted macadamia nuts, along with an entree of grilled lamb chops with harissa, mint sour cream, and fava beans. will be plating up asparagus with bacon and poached egg and rosemary roasted leg of lamb with sundried tomato and mint relish. in Larkspur will get in on the act with soft poached farm egg and asparagus salad; and lamb dolmas.

— Carolyn Jung of FoodGal

[Photo credit: John A. Benson]