Tag: SF Bay Area
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Dumpling Time
Sunday brunch at Dumpling Time. Lamb dumplings with five spice, lobster siu mai, chicken gyoza, seared char sui bao, and pork XLB. We’re all so full!!
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Cocktails, Truffle, Pasta, Burgundy
Cocktails! Made by Trisha…Supergay Vodka and lychee boba. TGIF!! Another tasty truffle dinner…pasta with parmesan sauce, broccolini, second pasta was a sunchoke capaletti, and a nice 1er Cru burgundy from Vougeot.
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Eggs, Truffle, Cheese
Quick lunch of slow cooked scrambled eggs avec copious amounts of butter and microplaned truffle. Toasted walnut levain from Acme. A small assortment of fromage.
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Caviar, Martinis, Truffle, Steak, Lafite
Since we aren’t in NYC this week (rescheduled for March), I rescheduled our truffle delivery for this week…200g of Perigord summer truffles from Provence. They were super moist this time. We opted for a quick and easy meal so we picked up a pasta kit, agnolotti dal plin, from Flour + Water pasta shop. I…
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Saison
A belated birthday dinner for my sister. I ate here last month in the salon (I.e. bar), but the full tasting experience at what was the best table in the restaurant (the same when I ate here for the first time years ago) right next to the kitchen:. The entire staff and Liz once again…
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Estiatorio Ornos
Tonight we are at Estiatorio Ornos the Greek Mina restaurant that replaced Michael Mina. Andrea, Trisha and I had tried to dine here a couple months ago but our plans were foiled due to the heavy rains that caused some flooding in the restaurant so our reservation was canceled. I have many fond memories of…
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The Anchovy Bar
This Thursday, we ate at a newish (opened during the pandemic) restaurant which is a sister restaurant to The Progress and State Bird Provisions which are both Michelin starred restaurants just around the corner. It was interesting that our server had asked us if we had eaten at the other restaurants (which, of course, we…
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NYE Caviar and Cristal
Bougie start to NYE. Andrea and I are homebodies so we’re definitely just staying in. So we decided to try some caviars and champagne that w we’ve never had the privilege of trying. The champagne was 2013 Cristal which we picked up from Costco yesterday (gotta love the Costco in SF. They always have an…
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San Ho Won
Tonight’s dinner was at a new upscale Korean restaurant. It’s a new collaboration with Corey Lee (Benu is one of our top dining experiences in SF and Monsieur Benjamin was also one of it favorites in Hayes Valley) and Jeong-In Hwang. Reservation was a bit tricky to get (had to book a month to the…
