Tag: California
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Verjus x Rajat Parr
We had a wine maker dinner at Verjus with Rajat Parr who was previously the somm for the Mina group but now has his own wineries (we had not heard of them before). I’ve been wanting to go here with Andrea ever since I went in January, since I know she’d enjoy the food here.
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Bones Bagels
Finally went back back here to get the bagel dog which I’ve wanted to do ever since we first visited. Andrea got the Veggie bagel sandwich with an every bagel and I also picked up a Brown Butter Pecan Cookie. The bagel dog was of course pre-cooked and was just sitting on a rack when
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Niku Steakhouse
Jacob, our account manager, invited me out to dinner with Lionel, one of the reps. Not as many options on Monday, but this was a fantastic option. I haven’t been here since 2023 when Andrea and I last dined here and was definitely looking forward to it. We had a 6pm reservation and it was
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Spruce
Last minute decision to go here for lunch/brunch. I had a great solo dining experience here last October, so was happy to come back and I was starving since I had gone for a run this morning and this was pretty late for me to eat. We were served the coffee cake to start, but
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Angela’s Organic Ice Cream
We wanted something sweet after eating at Tacolicious and we’ve been meaning to try this new ice cream shop in our neighborhood. It’s on the far easter end of the shops on 24th St. so it wasn’t ideally located since it wouldn’t get a lot of natural foot traffic. It was pretty empty when we
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Tacolicious – Noe Valley
We wanted to grab a quick lunch in our neigborhood and headed to Todo El Dia, but it looks as though they rebranded it as Tacolicious who owned them anyway. I think Todo El Dia was a slightly more casual concept since now they are doing direct table service (before it was more place your
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Hennessy Bar at Chase Center
Last time we were here for a Valkyries game, we had heard about a Hennessey slushie, but it wasn’t on the floor we were on and didn’t have time to go up the bar, but this time our seats were in the section right by this bar so we finally got to try it. I
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Fikscue – Thrive City
Before the Valkyries game, we decided to try out this Indonesian/Texas BBQ place as recommended by one of Andrea’s ex-coworkers when we saw them on Saturday (they were headed to the Valkyries game that day). The concept sounded very interesting. The original Fikschue in Alameda was number 44 on the Chronicle’s Top 100 Restaurants in
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Gott’s – Ferry Building
One of Andrea’s ex-coworkers, Susan B., was in town so she put together a small get together with some of the ex-coworkers. We met up at Gott’s in the Ferry Building. Was quite crowded as all Saturdays are here (esp. since the farmer’s market is going). Gott’s did handle taking orders very efficiently and then
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Hyphy Burger
I was on an errand in Emeryville so decided to go to Hyphy Burger (which just had their grand opening last week) to meet Mira, an ex-coworker, for lunch. I went with the Hyphy Burger instead of the Burnout burger (although I was severely tempted) because I figured it would be better to try the