Category: RECOMMENDED
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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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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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Californios
Our weekly dinner out, but also our anniversary dinner. So great to have some elevated Mexican/Latin cuisine… we’ve had so much French/California/European fine dining cuisine, we really enjoyed something different. Flavors, ingredients, preparation, beverage pairings were all so interesting. Difficult to pick a favorite with so many great flavors during the masa courses, the taco…
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Nari
Last night’s dinner at Nari – Andrea had been wanting to come back here for awhile so I’m glad we finally did. This time we went with the chef’s pick (I.e. tasting menu). Cocktails were all very good, although we didn’t enjoy the one that was like an overly sweet Manhattan. Flavors were rich and…
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Caviar Day with The Caviar Co.
The Caviar Co. had an event here for National caviar day (actually on Monday). They were tasting their full range of caviars…on blinis, potato chips, oysters, deviled eggs, and even ice cream. Of course our favorite way to taste the caviar was just as bumps of which we had many. The siberian sturgeon was the…
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Ritual dinner with Diego Guerrero
Another Ritual dinner, this time with Diego Guerrero, a 2-Michelin star chef from Spain at a venue in Cow Hollow. It’s late so I won’t go into great detail, but the chef did an amazing job extracting flavor from the ingredients. The vegetarian chorizo was so amazing and flavorful that you would have never guessed…
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Automat
Wanted to try something new for lunch so decided to go to this new place in NoPa at the former Green Chile location. Owner is former sous chef from Lazy Bear and baker was formerly from Tartine. Andrea had the chop salad and I had the Cheezy Buddy smashed burger and we started an order…
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Good Good Culture Club
Fortunate to be able to celebrate my parent’s 55th anniversary with them here in San Francisco. Ate at new, trendy, Hawaiian/pan-Asian place in the Mission. We had seating out on the rooftop patio which I had requested since we are having such nice weather here. Food was so delicious and interesting across the board. For…
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R&G Lounge
I’ve been wanting to take my parents here since I know they’d enjoy the food here. They must have liked it since this was the most I’ve seen them eat in one day!