Tag: SF Bay Area
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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SWEA Christmas Fair
We were at the SWEA Christmas Fair at Saint Mary’s, mainly for the crafts and the concert and not so much the food, although we did buy just a little bit. There were various Swedish food for sale including bottles of Glögg, bread, pastries, and candy. We did buy one of the Swedish buns, which…
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Ciccino
We went tasting at Tahona Mercado, but we didn’t eat dinner beforehand. So after all of that mezcal, we needed some food in our bellies before heading home. This meant a late dinner which is a bit unusual for us old folks. I did a quick search to see what was nearby on Google Maps…
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Mezcal Tasting at Tahona Mercado
We had first heard about Tahona Mercado after sitting at the bar for dinner at Californios in 2022. It sounded like a really interesting place, but we never made it around to visit. And then after having such great experiences tasting mezcal in Oaxaca, I can remember sitting on the Aeromexico plane while we were…