Tag: California
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Khao Tiew
Wanted to try this newish Thai restaurant in West Portal. You can only make reservations if you have a party of 6 or more. We showed up just a bit before 6pm and had no wait for 2. There were a lot of dishes we wanted to try and didn’t know where to start so…
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Beef Brisket
I haven’t made beef brisket for a long time (have usually done pork shoulder, which so easy), so wanted to give it another try. Andrea picked up a nice 4 lb. piece of brisket from Bryan’s Market and made the coffee rub based on a recipe from the Wall Street Journal that has worked for…
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Coffee
We’ve been roasting coffee for more than 15 years. It all started when this coffee shop in Windsor first showed us how you could roast beans with a hot air popcorn popper. I started with one of those from a garage sale from my neighbor, but soon upgraded to a Gene Cafe hot air roaster…
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Hilda & Jesse
I’ve been meaning to eat here for awhile, but since it’s more a brunch place (and we don’t often brunch), I never got around to it. They just earned their surprise Michelin star recently, so I at least thought we’d try them for our weekly dinner (they’re open Thur, Fri, Mon for dinner). They have…
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Prik Hom
Was just looking for something pretty quick and easy, but tasty, so we decided to revist Prik Hom on Geary. They have a seasonal menu, although the last time we were here it was also summer so some similarities with the menu. I started with their Ultimate Thai Iced Tea. Not sure what made it…
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Tiya
I had read about this restaurant, but with our schedules I hadn’t been able to book it until now, so I didn’t really remember what to expect. I just knew it was an Indian restaurant and that we’ve been searching for another decent place ever since Indian Oven went downhill, Dosa went out of business,…
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Black Oak Coffee
More coffee for Andrea (I’m already sufficiently caffeinated), this time a pour over. This was the previous location for Flying Goat Coffee that moved to a location more central in Healdsburg. But this space is much bigger, so they have room to do pour overs which they don’t at the newer Flying Goat location. I…
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Plank Coffee
Tasty coffee and pastries here. Place was packed for breakfast and for coffee. Andrea had the Lavender latte which fortunately wasn’t too sweet like a honey lavender coffee. I had the Cinnabang latte which was their Bangkok latte (latte with sweetened condensed milk) with an addition of cinnamon, also fortunately not too sweet or overly…
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SingleThread
It’s our anniversary so I booked us for dinner up at SingleThread up in Healdsburg. This is our third time (link to first time and second time) dining here and we had such an amazing experience when he ate last year. We had first dined here in February 2019 for the winter menu a few…
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Nobu Palo Alto
Dinner event from CDW focusing on “Mastering Operational AI Transformation” at Nobu in Palo Alto (I’ve only been to the one in Vegas previously). We weren’t in the restaurant, but a private dining room up on the 8th floor. Their regular elevator wasn’t working so we had to use the service elevator. No biggie, but…