Tag: SF Bay Area

  • Saru

    Saru

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    Popped in for a quick lunch at Saru. When they used to have lunch service during the week pre-pandemic, I had eaten here a 2 or 3 times a week after my mid-day run because they had a lunch menu then. Saru is only open for weekends now and it’s the same menu for lunch

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  • SFO United Polaris Lounge Dining Room

    SFO United Polaris Lounge Dining Room

    We didn’t have too much time in the lounge before our flight. I should have taken more pictures of the lounge itself. It is certainly far roomier than the regular United Club lounge, but it was still pretty full in the dining area. The buffet looked better than the United Club buffet, but that isn’t

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  • Akikos

    Akikos

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    Peter T. invited me to lunch. I gave a bunch of recommendations and he picked Akikos, which is great by me! This was my 4th time dining here with the most recent being dinner earlier this month with Andrea. Every meal here as been great and I expected much the same this time as well.

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  • Christmas Dinner

    Christmas Dinner

    One reason I look forward to Christmas dinner is because it’s the one time of the year that Andrea makes her beef wellington with a delicious peppercorn sauce. It starts with a center cut beef tenderloin from our local butcher shop Baron’s Meat. She sears it, slathers it in dijon mustard. She wraps this in

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  • Pancake Boy

    Pancake Boy

    I met up with my neighborhood Ingress buddy Troy and offered to take him to lunch. He wanted to try Pancake Boy since he missed trying before with one of his friends. Andrea and I had eaten here right after they re-branded to Pancake Boy years ago. They used to be called Aha Fresh (and

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  • Nightbird

    Nightbird

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    Since we missed out on eating here on Thursday, we had to try eating here (I guess I had FOMO). We had eaten here once before maybe 7 or 8 years ago (they opened in 2016). The restaurant is listed in the Michelin guide without any distinction (i.e. no stars or Bib Gourmand). We started

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  • Suppenküche

    Suppenküche

    Andrea was shopping in Hayes Valley and I met here there for dinner. We were going to do a walk-in at Nightbird because it had plenty of reservations when I had looked earlier in the day (didn’t reserve because we weren’t sure what time we were going to eat), but they ended up being all

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  • LeQuy

    LeQuy

    It was starting to get into the evening and we hadn’t figured out what we were going to do for dinner. We opted to try LeQuy, the new low key Vietnamese restaurant in our neighborhood that quietly went into the former location of Birch & Rye (which was preceded by Mahila (Malaysian) which was preceded

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  • The Wild

    The Wild

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    I only heard about this restaurant after reading a review last week by Virginia Miller in The Bold Italic (I am a big fan of her reviews. Since she’s local, we are often eating at many of the same new restaurants and her reviews are detailed and well written and we agree with her reviews

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  • Marufuku Ramen

    Marufuku Ramen

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    After visiting the SWEA Christmas Fair at St. Mary’s, we wanted some more substantial, well prepared food and since we were parked in the parking garage in J-town, I wanted to get some ramen. I ended up picking Marufuku based on a quick review on The Infatuation (and there were several recommendations that all looked

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