Tag: SF Bay Area
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Birch & Rye
This week’s dinner was at the newest restaurant in our neighborhood. We were very happy to see this open up on the previous location for Mahila and Contigo before that. Cocktails were very tasty utilizing vodka infusions. We, of course, went for the caviar service with imported Russian caviar paired with the horseradish infused vodka.…
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Cotogna
Spoiler – this was a great meal esp. for the money. This is a sister restaurant to Quince, which is one of our favorite restaurants. It was as difficult to get a reservation here as at Quince. Every time we’ve dined at Quince we’ve always wondered about Cotogna next door which looked great. We finally…
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Wagyu, Truffle
Since we were in the Design District for brunch at Dumpling Time, we decided to just buy some meat at the Butcher Shop. This is part of Niku Steakhouse (just received one Michelin star. We ate there pre-pandemic. Recommended!). We bought some A5 Kobe wagyu, NY strip. I wasn’t sure what was going to be…
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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…
