Category: Restaurant
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Nisei
Trying another new restaurant that sounded interesting…like the word Nisei, the food was a very modern Japanese-Californian cuisine with some very creative ingredient combinations and flavors (no surprise since the chef also had worked at wd-50 at one point). The wine pairings worked well (I personally would have been stumped on how to pair with…
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Pride Mountain Vineyards
Our first wine tasting at Pride since before the pandemic started. We decided to do the Reserve tasting this time around which is a newer offering. Always a fantastic job by Andy to take care of us. The other couples were a lot of fun, both of whom were newbies at Pride. Turns out we…
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Empress by Boon
It’s Wednesday and an opportunity to celebrate Andrea b-day again! Nice ingredients and interesting flavors. The salmon was a bit of a miss (and we otherwise love King salmon), but otherwise everything was very enjoyable.
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Sorrel
It’s Wednesday and an opportunity to celebrate Andrea b-day again! Nice ingredients and interesting flavors. The salmon was a bit of a miss (and we otherwise love King salmon), but otherwise everything was very enjoyable.
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Acquerello
Celebrating Andrea’s birthday a little early and returning back to somewhat normal. Service was a little uneven at the start but the food and wine were such a treat.
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Billingsgate
We’ve been meaning to try the newest restaurant in our neighborhood. Probably a bit much for lunch, but what a treat…shigoku oysters, kanpachi crudo, octopus, toasts with anchovies and jamon iberico, and Dungeness crab on a brioche. Yum!!
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Farmhouse Inn
Real Thanksgiving meal dining out, so no preparation for us (yah!) and dining was in an outdoor tent. We brought along bottles of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from Croix from our tasting earlier in the week. since we each did four courses, we were able to try everything on the menu. Ingredients were very good…
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Croix Estate Winery
We’re chilling up in Guerneville. It’s Sunday. We’re wine tasting at one of our favorite wineries (social distancing appropriately of course).
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Wako take home meal
This was a pretty impressive platter for take home from Wako! One disadvantage is that you have the entire meal in front of you all at once instead of being doled out over time when you dine in. So, of course, we ate too quickly!
