Tag: California
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Bella Union
After our tasting at Nickel & Nickel, we had a little time to kill before dinner, so some of us went looking for another tasting. Nancy at N&N told use we could just walk-in at Bella Union, one of their sister wineries in the Far Niente family. It seemed quite crowded and the facilities at…
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Nickel & Nickel
As part of Kristine’s b-day weekend, we were tasting at Nickel & Nickel where Dave was a member. We were members about 10 years ago and hadn’t been here since an event in 2013 having enjoyed their wines in the past (I saw we still have one bottle of N&N left, a 2009 Tench Vineyard.…
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Bottega
We had to juggle our schedule a bit and not a ton of options to book for 11 people last minute for Saturday within a certain distance from our 12:45 tasting at Nickel & Nickel, but Bottega turned out to be a very good option. We had an 11:30 reservation, some of us showed up…
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Press
Was thankful to be able to celebrate Kristine’s 50th with her and several of her other close friends (Charlotte, Lilly, and Dave) during this long weekend and especially on this day of her actual birthday. I won’t remember all of the details of the food since we had so much going on, esp. the conversations.…
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Spruce
Andrea was out of town so I’m home alone. So what’s an epicurean enthusiast to do…go out to brunch! We ate ere 5 years ago for dinner when it coincidentally happen to be white truffle season. It was 1-star restaurant back then, but they lost their star in the latest Michelin guide. I wasn’t really…
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Memento SF
We first ate here about a year ago shortly after they first opened. At that time, we thought it was a nice addition to the neighborhood. They’ve since added a very nice enclosed angled parklet that matches the angled parking adjacent. The menu is broken up into starters, shared, and mains. We wanted a salad…
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Four Kings
I had been trying for many weeks to get a reservation at this new-ish restaurant located in Chinatown just around the corner from R&G Lounge and staffed by some former chefs from Mister Jiu’s. The restaurant only take reservations a few weeks in advance and every time I checked for reservations, there were only available…
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Firefly
We were looking for a low key option for dinner without any advanced planning. It’s funny that because this restaurant is so close we often don’t think of it as our first option to eat at. We figure in the 20+ years we’ve lived in our house, we’ve probably walked by this restaurant a couple…
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Elena’s Mexican Restaurant
I had booked this reservation 3 months ago and because this restaurant was so popular, this was the soonest I was able to book for a weekend brunch. Of course, we had since come here as walk-ins, once for lunch during the work week and once for dinner. Since we had the reservation, we decided…
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Dandelion Chocolate
Since we were already on Valencia, Andrea wanted to stop by Dandelion to get a cookie. I wasn’t planning to get anything because I was already full, but then I saw that they had a chocolate canele and then I saw they had a little mini dessert tasting menu that also included a mini canele,…