Category: Restaurant
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Sorella
This week’s dinner was at Sorella, the “little sister” (sorella literally means sister) restaurant to Acquerello which we still love (I’ve been going there for more than 20 years…yes, I’m old) and Sorella is positioned as more an any day dining experience compared to the occasion dining experience at Acquerello. We’ve been meaning to eat…
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Ritual dinner with Julien Royer (Odette)
Another Ritual dinner last night, this time the venue was at the St. Joseph Art Academy location (where we also attended the California Caviar Co.’s caviar day event a couple months ago). The chef was Julien Royer from Singapore who has a 3-Michelin star restaurant, Odette, which is also on the Worlds 50 Best Restaurants…
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The Cheesecake Factory
We were downtown and Andrea had never eaten at The Cheesecake Factory, so I said we had to go. Great view from up here, but food is pretty typical chain food and. And we didn’t even get any cheesecake 🙁
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Ancora
We’ve been meaning to try this place for a bit ever since they opened in July. Executive chef is Nick Anichini, formerly of Atelier Crenn. Menu primarily features seafood with their main supplier being Water2Table. We went with the Chief’s Tasting Menu at the Chef’s counter with wine pairing. We went with the Chef’s tasting…
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Boulevard
Neither of its had eaten here in many years so we thought it’d be fun to try this place after so many years. 25 years ago (dang I’m old), I used to work at One Market and had eaten here many many times. Restaurant appeared to be quite busy (we showed up at almost 6:00pm)…
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Bansang
This week’s dinner was at Bangasng, one of the hot new restaurants in SF per Eater located on the block on Filmore, next door to Avery and just up and across the street from The Progress and State Bird Provisions and The Anchovy Bar. It’s a modern Koreran tapas place. The banchan was only a…
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Uchi
Last night’s omakase dinner with Trisha. My favorite dish was the negitoro roll, the fried tofu dish, and the eggplant.
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Frasca Food & Wine
Italian (Friuli region) dinner with Trisha in Boulder. Tasting menu in the alpenglobe seating (this would be a perfect she-shed in our back yard). Wine pairing and aged amari and barolo quinato for digestif. Food was good, not quite Michelin star level, but adventurous and interesting. Wine was very good and the servers and sommelier…
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Robin
This week’s dinner was at Robin. I hadn’t eaten here since before the pandemic, but Andrea had eaten here with Trisha since then. Back then, I really enjoyed the modern take on sushi and enjoyed the rap music playing as background music. So I was really looking forward to coming here again, but wondered if…
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Rich Table
This restaurant was the last one we ate at (3/12/20) right before the pandemic lockdown occurred. We remember having a great time so we were curious to revisit although they did lose their Michelin star in the latest guide. We had a 5:15 reservation and the restaurant was already quite full on a Thursday. Cocktails…