Tag: Food/Dining
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Dandelion Chocolate Factory Tour
https://www.dandelionchocolate.com/pages/experiences#tours
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Quesos Paty
A great experience seeing artisanal cheese making and a delicious lunch
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Outstanding In The Field – Heath Ceramics
It may seem odd that we are tagging Heath Cermaics for our meal, but this was our second dinner with Outstanding in the Field and Andrea was very interested because of the venue since we own so much Heath dishware. The event was supposed to be outside, but due to the atmospheric river bringing somewhat…
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La Moutarderie Edmond Fallot
Back in Beaune, we did the tour at the Edmond Fallot Moutarderie (mustard mill). Learned a good amount about mustard making and we got to make our own Dijon mustard by grinding mustard seeds, adding salt, vinegar, and water. We then did a bit of a tasting with a few of the different mustards (Dijon,…
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Outstanding in the Field – Pescadero
Tonight’s dinner was our first time participating in one of the Outstanding in the Field dinners. This one was located in a “Secret Cove” just south of Pescadero. Dining outside seemed like a different experience and I can’t imagine how difficult the logistics are of dealing with this – it was a a little bit…
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Ritual Dinner with Javi Olleros
This week’s dinner was another Ritual dinner this time featuring Spanish Chef Javi Olleros from the 2 Michelin star restaurant Culler de Pau. The venue was at a small a art gallery, the saved venue when they hosted Nacho Manzano from Asturias. These Ritual dinners are a great way to experience the cuisine of internationally…
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Ritual dinner with Chef Alberto Landgraf
This month’s Ritual dinner with Chef Alberto Landgraf, a 2-Michelin star chef whose restaurant Oteque, in Rio de Janeiro, is number 47 on the current World’s 50 Best list. Location this time was at a private residence in Pac Heights. Chef Alberto had a primarily seafood forward menu with many ingredients from Brazil and some…
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Ritual dinner with Julien Royer (Odette)
Another Ritual dinner last night, this time the venue was at the St. Joseph Art Academy location (where we also attended the California Caviar Co.’s caviar day event a couple months ago). The chef was Julien Royer from Singapore who has a 3-Michelin star restaurant, Odette, which is also on the Worlds 50 Best Restaurants…
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Caviar Day with The Caviar Co.
The Caviar Co. had an event here for National caviar day (actually on Monday). They were tasting their full range of caviars…on blinis, potato chips, oysters, deviled eggs, and even ice cream. Of course our favorite way to taste the caviar was just as bumps of which we had many. The siberian sturgeon was the…
