Tag: American
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Coolinary and the Parched Pig
I wanted to spend a little more time with Trisha before she dropped me off at my hotel for my conference. I looked for some places for dinner on Eater and on the Michelin guide and we both thought Coolinary looked good. They didn’t have a reservation available indoors on Resy, so I called them…
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Townhouse
I scheduled a work dinner before our onsite meeting since we so rarely get together since we are all remote and all over the country. I picked Townhouse since I’ve been here a billion times and is one of the nicest places in Emeryville (as far as I know. I haven’t had to go into…
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Town House Cafe
Before we headed over to Chicago, we had a quick lunch in St. Charles. We wanted something relatively light so this cafe looked pretty good. The cafe is also associated with a bookstore (we didn’t have time to go in). Andrea ordered the Ham & Cheese Melt and I ordered the asparagus quiche and cream…
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Fairchild
Our financial advisors are based in Madison so while we were here they offered to take us out to dinner. They know what foodies we are so they selected Fairchild which they was a trendy restaurant. It was located on Monroe St., not too far from Camp Randall Stadium where we would be attending the…
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L’Etoile
I was interested in going to this restaurant because when I was researching restaurants in Madison, this was basically described as the Chez Panisse of Madison. The restaurant was originally opened in 1976 (just 5 years after Chez Panisse) which is 49 years ago (or as Andrea says “it’s been open forever!”). I was looking…
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Wayfare Tavern
We were interested in going to Wayfare Tavern’s new location. I think it’s been over 20 years since I’ve eaten here (although Andrea had been more recently), so I really didn’t recall the food. We both did like the atmosphere more at the old location, but things move on. We both started with martinis, a…
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Birdsong – sake maker dinner with IWA 5
We last ate here in June 2019 in between our birthdays. I remember where we sat and having a good time and I also remember the numerous homeless people out in front of the restaurant. They were a Michelin 1-star back then, but picked up a second star in 2021. Andrea had mentioned this place…
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Plumed Horse
This is one of the few Michelin starred restaurants in the Bay area at which I haven’t dined, so when there was a vendor dinner being hosted there I did accept the invite (plus this is a vendor I very much do like and they also had a presentation from the hacker Freaky Clown). I…
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Liholiho Yacht Club
This was a random Thursday dinner since Andrea was working downtown in the office and so we figured we may as well grab some dinner downtown. We were trying to go relatively low key since we had just been gorging ourselves in Las Vegas over the extended weekend. We ended up going to LihoLiho Yacht…
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Sugarcane
Quick lunch in the Ventian. Decided on this place since it had a lot of lighter dishes since we would be eating out at Hakkasan later this evening. We both started with some bloody mary’s. It was a decent bloody mary and came with a whole piece of bacon. I assume that was there to…