Category: Restaurant
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The Rivoli Bar at the Ritz London
For our first outing here in London, we took the tube to Mayfair and walked around there a bit. We eventually got “thirsty” and stopped in at the Ritz to grab a drink at their bar. Quite a few people at the Ritz were dressed up and here for afternoon tea. Trisha ordered the Serenity…
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SFO United Polaris Lounge Dining Room
We didn’t have too much time in the lounge before our flight. I should have taken more pictures of the lounge itself. It is certainly far roomier than the regular United Club lounge, but it was still pretty full in the dining area. The buffet looked better than the United Club buffet, but that isn’t…
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Akikos
Peter T. invited me to lunch. I gave a bunch of recommendations and he picked Akikos, which is great by me! This was my 4th time dining here with the most recent being dinner earlier this month with Andrea. Every meal here as been great and I expected much the same this time as well.…
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Pancake Boy
I met up with my neighborhood Ingress buddy Troy and offered to take him to lunch. He wanted to try Pancake Boy since he missed trying before with one of his friends. Andrea and I had eaten here right after they re-branded to Pancake Boy years ago. They used to be called Aha Fresh (and…
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Nightbird
Since we missed out on eating here on Thursday, we had to try eating here (I guess I had FOMO). We had eaten here once before maybe 7 or 8 years ago (they opened in 2016). The restaurant is listed in the Michelin guide without any distinction (i.e. no stars or Bib Gourmand). We started…
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Suppenküche
Andrea was shopping in Hayes Valley and I met here there for dinner. We were going to do a walk-in at Nightbird because it had plenty of reservations when I had looked earlier in the day (didn’t reserve because we weren’t sure what time we were going to eat), but they ended up being all…
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Panda Inn
This was our meal the evening before we were going to fly out of Ontario (California, not Canada) so we wanted someplace close to the hotel (which was close to the airport). I know my parents are always game for Chinese food. Plus this was recommended by our good friend and fellow foodie Trisha A.…
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Nanay Gloria’s
We ate here so we could also pick up some food for my aunt to bring to her at her care facility. We don’t really know any other Filipino restaurants in the area near her and we had taken her here during our last visit. Food was not particularly good (compare this with Goldilocks in…
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LeQuy
It was starting to get into the evening and we hadn’t figured out what we were going to do for dinner. We opted to try LeQuy, the new low key Vietnamese restaurant in our neighborhood that quietly went into the former location of Birch & Rye (which was preceded by Mahila (Malaysian) which was preceded…
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The Wild
I only heard about this restaurant after reading a review last week by Virginia Miller in The Bold Italic (I am a big fan of her reviews. Since she’s local, we are often eating at many of the same new restaurants and her reviews are detailed and well written and we agree with her reviews…