Saturday, September 15, 2012

Cooking Demo by Craig Stoll, Delfina

My Saturday mornings are all about food.  I start with shopping at the Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market, and then often attend cooking demos.  The Ferry Building always has one at 11am, and then sometimes a second one at 11:45am.  They are usually less formal, and focus on seasonal cooking, particularly on sourcing all of the ingredients from the market.  Williams-Sonoma often hosts a guest chef at 12pm, and their demos tend...
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Friday, September 14, 2012

Citizen's Band

[ Originally posted December 4, 2011.  Moving to blog after discussion of the place with a friend. ] I was excited to go to Citizen's band because the menu sounded great (mac and cheese! burgers! warm pie and ice cream!) and I've really liked the baked goods from the associated bakery (Pinkies).  Unfortunately, nothing was very good, and I do not think I will be returning there. Mac and cheese: Baked macaroni, cheddar fonduta, onion rings.  $8. Ok,...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Soma Inn Cafe

I've been having fun lately playing with LevelUp and GoPago, using my free credits all over the city to finally check out places I've been meaning to go for ages, but somehow still hadn't managed to.  This past month, in addition to the normal credits on LevelUp, I had additional credits to spend at SOMA establishments. One place I'd heard about was Soma Inn Cafe, a pretty nondescript cafe at 7th & Folsom - not exactly the nicest of neighborhoods or...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Foie Gras Wednesday @ Txoko

Wednesdays historically haven't been a very exciting day for me.  Hump day, sure, but really, not the best day of the week.  And then ... Txoko went and changed all of that.  A few weeks ago, they started up Free Foie Wednesdays.  The idea is simple: the first 50 people who show up get a ticket, that they can then redeem for a foie gras pintxo. You know that I love foie gras.  And you know that I was totally enamored by Txoko when I attended...
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Monday, September 10, 2012

Milkshake from Holy Grill

A beautiful San Francisco afternoon and LevelUp credits burning a hole in my pocket.  What is a girl to do, but go on a mission to get something cold and delicious?  I had a few of my SOMA specific credits left to spend, which I could combine with the initial seed money from individual restaurants to buy big ticket items, like ... milkshakes! I browsed through the list of SOMA merchants, and went to the nearest one that had milkshakes: City Kinetics.  But...
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