Category: Restaurant
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L’Etoile
I was interested in going to this restaurant because when I was researching restaurants in Madison, this was basically described as the Chez Panisse of Madison. The restaurant was originally opened in 1976 (just 5 years after Chez Panisse) which is 49 years ago (or as Andrea says “it’s been open forever!”). I was looking
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Wakuriya
This wasn’t really on my radar since we primarily eat in the city, but it was mentioned a couple times on the Fine Dining discord group, so I decided to give it a try. The first challenge is getting a reservation. You basically have to leave a message and wait for a call back to
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Dragon Beaux
Our neighbor invited us to go here with his family so I made a reservation for all of us. We had a small frenzy of ordering at the start, which always seems to happen anytime I’ve been here. You’d think we could just order something to start and then order more as we need. First
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Tadich Grill
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
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Hamano Sushi
We decided to go out to dinner on Wednesday evening instead of our usual Thursday since Andrea had to work on Thursday. Someone had inquired about Hamano on this fine discord group I’m in and since we hadn’t eaten here for so long. I first ate at Hamano back in the 90s when I was
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Bones Bagels
After going for coffee at Neighbor’s Corner, we went to Bones Bagels to check out what it’s all about. When they first opened, there were lines 20+ long so we (Andrea, Andrea P., and I) were all interested to check it out for ourselves. Their speciality is sourdough bagels, perfect for San Francisco. Andrea ordered
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Neighbor’s Corner
Andrea and Andrea P. went for a walk and stopped off at Neighbor’s Corner cafe so I met them there. I think is the first time I’ve had anything there (Andrea has been before). The place was packed inside and people sitting outside on this Friday morning with great sunny weather. I already had my
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House of Prime Rib
We haven’t been here for a couple years so we were overdue to come try again. It’s such a San Francisco institution. I actually had a reservation because I had booked it almost a year ago (July 6 to be exact). Last time we were here, we just showed up at 4:30 to get on
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Elena’s
It had been awhile since we had been here so I booked a reservation for Sunday noon. It was mostly full, but only one party waiting to get seated, so we probably could have walked in and there were plenty of seats at the bar. We were seated promptly after checking in and amusingly we
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Wayfare Tavern
We were interested in going to Wayfare Tavern’s new location. I think it’s been over 20 years since I’ve eaten here (although Andrea had been more recently), so I really didn’t recall the food. We both did like the atmosphere more at the old location, but things move on. We both started with martinis, a