Tag: SF Bay Area
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Enclos
We were looking forward to dining here and spending a little bit of time in Sonoma which we don’t do often enough. We just walked from our AirBnB which was located a couple blocks south of the plaza. The restaurant was just barely east of the plaza on Napa Rd. and coincidentally next to Sojurn
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Angler
Andrea hadn’t been interested in revisiting Angler so when Steven invited me for dinner, we decided to go since neither of us had been for awhile. The cocktails were very enjoyable. We mainly had them mezcal versions of other cocktails (e.g. penicillin, last word, negroni). There are some items off menu that you can ask
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Elena’s
We had the cleaners scheduled at the house so we decided to take a late brunch here at Elena’s. We didn’t have a reservation, but based on our previous visits, we figured we’d be able to just walk in without much trouble. We were surprised to see that it was near full even at the
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Miller & Lux
Andrea P. and Stanford invited us to the Valkyries game and dinner beforehand. I was very interested in going to a Valkyries game and had been interested in going to Miller & Lux for awhile, but we hadn’t gotten around to doing either. Miller & Lux is a steakhouse from celebrity chef Tyler Florence (we
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Akikos
I can’t believe it’s been 2 years since Plamen and I ate here, but I am very thankful for him reaching out with the invite. The first in the Otsumami part of the meal was the Katsuo Tataki. It was, but a little fishy tasting, so not my favorite. Next was the Mehikari, or greeneyes
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Belotti Bottega pasta shop
We were in Oakland on Piedmont running some errands and walked by this pasta shop. We popped in to take a look and were blown away how great their pasta looks. They were actively making more pasta too. So we had to buy something. We decided to try something a little different and went with
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Wakuriya
This wasn’t really on my radar since we primarily eat in the city, but it was mentioned a couple times on the Fine Dining discord group, so I decided to give it a try. The first challenge is getting a reservation. You basically have to leave a message and wait for a call back to
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Dragon Beaux
Our neighbor invited us to go here with his family so I made a reservation for all of us. We had a small frenzy of ordering at the start, which always seems to happen anytime I’ve been here. You’d think we could just order something to start and then order more as we need. First
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Country Ribs on the BGE
We were invited to a July 4th BBQ at one of our neighbors Christina and Kevin. I was going to bring something like a pork shoulder, but they had a bunch of meat and asked if we could cook some of them, so that was easy. Of course, i had never done country ribs before
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Tadich Grill
Work lunch meeting with Peter and team from one of our vendors. I gave him a few suggestions on restaurants and we picked Tadich Grill which is the oldest restaurant in California at 176 years old! I haven’t eaten here since I moved to SF in the 90s and no one else at our lunch