Tag: California
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Bistro Ember
After having some wine and charcuterie next door with our neighbors Michael and Elizabeth, Andrea were just looking for someplace to eat in our neighborhood on this Friday evening. We rarely eat out on a Friday and often it’s elsewhere in the city. We started walking down to Dash which was completely packed and with…
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Bodega
Andrea went to work in the office downtown so we decided to have dinner downtown. I had read about this place in the usual blogs (i.e. The Infatuation, Eater, etc.) so we decided to give it a try. It’s located in the Tenderloin on the same block as Kin Khao. Cuisine here is a modern…
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Sushi Ran
Andrea had her hair appointment in Corte Madera so it was a good opportunity to run in Marin. I’m not really much in shape these days (took a nearly 4-month hiatus from running due to various illness with associated lung congestion), but getting back into it. It was a beautiful day to run and thanks…
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Firehouse Coffee & Tea
We had a about 15 minutes before lunch and stopped by this cute coffee shop right next door to the local firehouse. An interesting lively mix of people here. One dude jamming out to music, a table of 4 playing a card/board game, a group of older women socializing, etc. Andrea had the honey lavender…
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Nari
This is our 4th time eating here, but it’s been about 15 months since we’ve eaten here and it’s one of Andrea’s favorites since we’re guaranteed to get a flavorfully delicious meal. We started with cocktails which is always a good way for us to start if they have a good cocktail program, which they…
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Four Kings
We’re back here at Four Kings after having just dined here for the first time a fortnight ago. We showed up right at 6pm when they opened. There was a line of less than 10 people waiting in the walk-in line and we were the only ones in the reservations line with several tables already…
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Hamburgers
Kristine and Charlotte were spending their last night at our place before they flew back to their respective homes. It had been a whirlwind and Charlotte had mentioned how she hadn’t had a burger at all on the trip, so I said we could make them at home, so that’s what we did! Mind you,…
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Pride Mountain Vineyards
Andrea and I have been visiting Pride for more than 20+ years ever since I read about a very positive review of their wines in Wine Spectator back in the late ’90s. We’ve had many other wine club subscriptions come and go, but Pride has been the one consistent one. Kristine and I have been…
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Bouchon
Our last day in Napa for Kristine’s b-day weekend extravaganza and our last meal up here. Since didn’t make it to French Laundry on Thursday, we did want to at least try one of Thomas Keller’s other restaurants, in this case, Bouchon, his French bistro. The weather was perfect so we decided to take a…
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Morimoto Asia
Our final dinner in Napa. Kristine wanted to find something for the entire group that was reasonably nice and was going to be palatable to the entire group, so she picked Morimoto Asia (not to be confused with Morimoto). For drinks, I started with the flight of Morimoto sake which included a ginjo, and junmai,…