Tag: San Francisco
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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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Californios
Always a fantastic meal here https://www.californiossf.com/
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Akikos
This week’s dinner was at Akiko’s, which recently moved into their new location on Folsom St. as of January 10. As we entered, there was a very nice cocktail bar at reception. Had we known, we would have come earlier to enjoy although since it was right by the door, it was a bit rough…
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State Bird Provisions
This week’s dinner was at State Bird Provisions. We first ate here in August 2021 and was one of the first places we ate coming off of the pandemic. Back then we sat outside in their parklet since there wasn’t any indoor seating and I remember having to show my proof of vaccination to them…
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Roast Chicken, Truffle, Burgundy
Tonight’s truffle dinner…roasted chicken and risotto with a decent burgundy
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Caviar, Truffle, Fonduta, Leek Soup
Second dinner with Trisha. Second round on the caviar. Trisha made fonduta (Italian version of fondue) and a potato leek soup with a poached egg (my contribution). Lots of truffle and we still have more than 100g left. Wine was a 2013 Barolo. Very tasty and satisfying meal. Thank you Trisha!
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Martinis, Caviar, Tater Tots, Truffle, Pasta
Trisha is in town with us so of course that is the perfect excuse to indulge in our hedonistic tendencies (life is short…carpe diem!). I had previously ordered 300g of Perigord truffles overnighted from Provence and today I had 3 x 100g of different caviar from Imperia caviar. We started with some vodka martinis. The…
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Steak and Truffle
Guess what’s for dinner? I had to reverse sear it on the BGE because it was so thick. It was aged and had ask of that funk that worked so well with the truffles.
