Category: Restaurant
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The Shota
It’s Wednesday and it’s a Spare-the-Air day due to the fires up north so we didn’t want to grill and it was unseasonably hot so we didn’t want to cook. Andrea wanted sushi so we decided to go to one of our favorite Japanese restaurants in SF, The Shota. We first dined here in December
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Penny Roma
We didn’t feel like cooking today, so we decided to try Penny Roma, at which we’ve been meaning to eat ever since they opened. Flour+Water has a pasta shop from which we had purchased a few pasta dinners since the pandemic, so we were familiar with many of the pasta dishes and Penny Roma is
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Damansara
Last night’s dinner was another low key dinner in our neighborhood, this time at Damansara a Malaysian restaurant that opened up last October. We arrived at about 6:30 or so, but it was not very busy with maybe 2 tables seated. We started with some cocktails which were just ok. We ordered a bunch of
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Memento SF
Thursday dinner we decided to low key in our ‘hood at Memento, a new (4 weeks or so) restaurant that we hadn’t yet tried. The restaurant had was darkly painted and the vibe was a bit more adult than most of the restaurants in our neighborhood (which is known for having a lot of kids
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Le Grand Restaurant – Jean-François Piège
Reservations were a bit difficult since so many restaurants are closed since this is the time for vacation in France, but I did make this reservation for dinner. The chef, Jean-François Piège, was head chef in Top Chef France for ten years. The cuisine was modern which we really enjoyed. The menu is a tour
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Septime
Lunch today at Septime. Looks so unassuming outside and in which belies the quality of the food. The made the most of their ingredients to develop flavors esp. in the sauces which were always rich, seasoned, and layered. I think Andrea and Trisha’s favorite dish was the tomato dish with several preparations of the tomato
