Work lunch meeting with Peter and team from one of our vendors. I gave him a few suggestions on restaurants and we picked Tadich Grill which is the oldest restaurant in California at 176 years old! I haven’t eaten here since I moved to SF in the 90s and no one else at our lunch had ever been so this was a good treat for all of us. Interior has a lock of dark wood and wait-people in white jackets and black pants. Classic. Since there were five of us, we were seated at a table in a semi-enclosed room. Old school cool!
We ordered various appetizers – shrimp cocktail, fried calamari, a dungeness crab cake. It all tasted exactly what you would think from the pictures.
For my main, I had to go with the the quintessential SF classic of cioppino as did a couple of the others at our table. This was loaded with clams, mussels, prawns, scallops, bay shrimp, crab meat, and white fish in a seasoned tomato-based broth and the butteriest garlic bread on the side which was perfect for dipping into the sauce. They provided us bibs for the cioppino which of course I had to wear. I managed to not to splash anything onto my bib although an errant clam shell transfer to the bowl did result in minor collateral damage to the white tablecloth. Of the 3 of us who ordered the cioppino, I was the only one who managed to really finish it, but then again eating is my mutant power.
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