Category: Tour/Experience
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Wine tasting in Côte de Nuits
The wine tour was very informative even though we’ve certainly consumed a fair amount of Burgundy, we didn’t quite grok the sub-regions and the numerous vineyards as well as the AOCs all interrelate for a given wine. It was of course interesting to contrast this with the domestic Pinots we drink, there Burgundy that we’ve
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Outstanding in the Field – Pescadero
Tonight’s dinner was our first time participating in one of the Outstanding in the Field dinners. This one was located in a “Secret Cove” just south of Pescadero. Dining outside seemed like a different experience and I can’t imagine how difficult the logistics are of dealing with this – it was a a little bit
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Ritual Dinner with Javi Olleros
This week’s dinner was another Ritual dinner this time featuring Spanish Chef Javi Olleros from the 2 Michelin star restaurant Culler de Pau. The venue was at a small a art gallery, the saved venue when they hosted Nacho Manzano from Asturias. These Ritual dinners are a great way to experience the cuisine of internationally
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Ritual dinner with Chef Alberto Landgraf
This month’s Ritual dinner with Chef Alberto Landgraf, a 2-Michelin star chef whose restaurant Oteque, in Rio de Janeiro, is number 47 on the current World’s 50 Best list. Location this time was at a private residence in Pac Heights. Chef Alberto had a primarily seafood forward menu with many ingredients from Brazil and some
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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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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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Ritual dinner with Nacho Manzano
Another Ritual dinner. Andrea had to work so I went solo. I was particularly interested in this one since the chef was from Asturias, where my late cunado was from. The venue was a beautiful gallery space in SoMa. Food was Spanish and Asturian including a very elevated fabada which we remember well when eating
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Ritual dinner with Alex Atala
What to do after we’ve eaten at every Michelin star restaurant in SF…I’d been receiving emails from Ritual since last September and their concept was intriguing, but for awhile we still had plenty of restaurants to try. Ritual brings in some of the top chefs from all over the world to a private venue in
