Category: Restaurant

  • The Progress

    The Progress

    , , ,

    Tonight’s dinner was at The Progress. We’ve eaten here with Trisha A. pre-pandemic (funny how we divide so many things into before covid, during, and after). I honestly don’t remember what we ate last time, but I do remember exactly where we sat and being with Trisha, but I don’t recall the food. It is…

    Read more

  • Osito

    Osito

    We eat out so much that it’s not very often that we’re so pleasantly surprised. Osito (little bear, which the chef explained his nickname at one point during the meal) was bestowed a Michelin star on Monday when they announced all of the new stars in Calfiornia, so of course we had to go. The…

    Read more

  • Dragon Beaux

    Dragon Beaux

    Dim sum for a late Sunday brunch. This restaurant was mentioned in both the SF Chronicle article about best dim sum restaurants as well as in Eater’s list , so we had to try it out. This restaurant is a spin off of the old standby Koi Palace in Daly City. We ordered a ridiculous…

    Read more

  • Ritual dinner with Chef Alberto Landgraf

    Ritual dinner with Chef Alberto Landgraf

    ,

    This month’s Ritual dinner with Chef Alberto Landgraf, a 2-Michelin star chef whose restaurant Oteque, in Rio de Janeiro, is number 47 on the current World’s 50 Best list. Location this time was at a private residence in Pac Heights. Chef Alberto had a primarily seafood forward menu with many ingredients from Brazil and some…

    Read more

  • The Village Pub

    The Village Pub

    , ,

    Vendor dinner

    Read more

  • Frances

    Frances

    Tonight’s dinner was at Frances, one of our old haunts. Frances was formerly a Michelin starred restaurant and sister restaurant to Octavia, which we also have enjoyed several times. Both of these restaurants have a format for the tasting menu that provides several small dishes (i.e like tapas) for each course. We really enjoy this…

    Read more

  • Bliss

    Bliss

    We’re in San Antonio for Mary Elizabeth and Becca’s wedding (yahoo!) this weekend. They generously offered to let us stay the night with them when we flew in very late last night and it was so great to catch up with them and to see their amazing house – it has more square footage than…

    Read more

  • R&G Lounge

    R&G Lounge

    ,

    Apparently we didn’t eat enough yesterday, so here we are at one of our old standbys for lunch with all of our usual dishes!

    Read more

  • Acquerello (White Truffle Tasting)

    Acquerello (White Truffle Tasting)

    , ,

    This week’s dinner was at Acquerello. This is IMO the best Italian restaurant in SF (although I certainly haven’t tried them all). I know I’ve been going here since as far back at least as 2001 (have pictures) when I lived on Franklin St. just a few blocks away. Even though it’s had 2-Michelin stars,…

    Read more

  • Kusakabe

    Kusakabe

    , ,

    This week’s dinner was at Kusakabe. This place was recommended by the woman we were seated next to at the last Ritual dinner so we decided to give it a try. It’s right across the street from the Transamerica building. It’s a Japanese kaiseki style restaurant so we were very interested to see how they…

    Read more