Tag: SF Bay Area

  • SingleThread

    SingleThread

    It’s our anniversary so I booked us for dinner up at SingleThread up in Healdsburg. This is our third time (link to first time and second time) dining here and we had such an amazing experience when he ate last year. We had first dined here in February 2019 for the winter menu a few…

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  • Nobu Palo Alto

    Nobu Palo Alto

    Dinner event from CDW focusing on “Mastering Operational AI Transformation” at Nobu in Palo Alto (I’ve only been to the one in Vegas previously). We weren’t in the restaurant, but a private dining room up on the 8th floor. Their regular elevator wasn’t working so we had to use the service elevator. No biggie, but…

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  • Taishoken

    Taishoken

    After running around the city (including an unsuccessful search for canale), Kristina and Paula treated us to some ramen, which was a great idea. We went to the Taishoken at their Valencia St. location. We started with the Agedashi Tofu and Eggplant. I enjoyed the subtle flavor of this dish, although the fried part on…

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  • Dandelion Hot Chocolate

    Dandelion Hot Chocolate

    Tasting the Mission Hot Chocolate and the House Hot Chocolate at the Dandelion Chocolate in the Ferry Building since we had some cards for free drinks that we were given when we did the factory tour in February. https://www.dandelionchocolate.com/pages/ferry-building

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  • Cotogna

    Cotogna

    Dinner at Cotogna before the Dear San Francisco show. This is the sister restaurant to Quince (at which we ate last month). We’ve only eaten here once before and very much enjoyed it and this time we were even more impressed. Cocktails were delicious…I had the mezcal based Tremante, Andrea had the tequila based Aurora,…

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  • Wizards and Wands

    Wizards and Wands

    It was only thanks to Kristina that we even knew there was a Harry Potter themed bar here in the city, so of course we had to go. When we arrived, the place was packed. There was one guy wearing his Hogwarts robe (dang, why didn’t I think about wearing mine!!). I have to admit…

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  • A16

    A16

    Dinner with our new friends from Germany who we’re hosting for a few days. We had an excess of food as usual at A16 which is someplace I’ve been meaning to try for a long time.Solid, traditional Italian cuisine. We were seated in the small back patio area. Some Italians dining back there and our…

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  • Petit Crenn

    Petit Crenn

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    This week’s dinner was at Petit Crenn. We’ve eaten at Atelier Crenn and Bar Crenn on various occasions over the years, but never made it to Petit Crenn. They were closed for the pandemic and only recently re-opened for a few months before the close permanently in September, so we had to try them out.…

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  • Elena’s Mexican Restaurant

    Elena’s Mexican Restaurant

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    I wasn’t jam packed with meetings today so we both had a little extra window to grab some lunch. I recommended we try out Elena’s in West Portal since they opened up in February. There’s a lot of buzz around this restaurant since it’s opening. It’s owned by the same couple (Elena and John) behind…

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  • Sushi Yoshizumi

    Sushi Yoshizumi

    This week’s dinner was on a Saturday, which is fairly rare for us (we always try to avoid the weekend reservations) and even more rare because it was for the second seating which started at 8:15PM, which is late for us old folks. It was also in San Mateo (Bryan did you ever eat here…

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