Grateful for Gratitude (Mission District)

For what are you grateful? In this post, it’s Cafe Gratitude. To say that this place is a little unusual is an understatement, but we are grateful for just the unusual food they do.
Confused? So were we. Let us demystify.
The food is all raw and vegan. In all honesty, I don’t really care about that [...]

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La Taqueria (Mission District)

La Taqueria, located on Mission Street near the corner of 25th, is the best place in San Francisco for tacos and burritos. Ok, being gluten-free, our friends say it is the best burrito. However, we can attest to the absolute best tacos and corn quesadillas. The ingredients are fresh. The corn tortillas taste home made. [...]

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Hog Island Oyster Company (Ferry Building)

No trip to the Ferry Building Farmer’s Market is complete for us without lunch at Hog Island Oyster Co. The restaurant in the Ferry Building is the retail outlet for the farm of the same name.
We start off with six or twelve of the Hog Island Sweetwater oysters. They are harvested from the local Tomales [...]

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Frtjz (Hayes Valley)

Frjtz is the place to go for fries. Period. Why the McDonald’s french fry ever became an American icon when there is Frjtz is baffling. The secret is in their Belgian-style cooking method of first blanching the fries in a lower temperature oil, then frying them in a much higher temperature oil to crisp the [...]

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B44 (Financial District/Union Square)

Walking through the skyscrapers of the Financial District, if you turn just the right corner you are transported to the cozy alleyways of Europe with outdoor sidewalk cafes and the buzz of diners with glasses of great, inexpensive wine. That’s Belden Lane.
Belden Lane is located in the block bordered by Bush, Pine, Kearney, and [...]

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Acme Chophouse (South Beach/Mission Bay)

Another neighborhood restaurant we’ve recently tried is the Acme Chophouse–the restuarant inside AT&T Park. This was our second visit. Our first was two years ago before a Giant’s game. This visit confirmed our first impression: very good food but too expensive.
Our meal started with a salad of crecenza cheese, radish, frisee, and pomegranate topped with [...]

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Nama Sushi (South Beach/Mission Bay)

Since moving in to our new place, Jan and I have started to sample the new neighborhood’s cuisine. Our current dinner favorite is Nama Sushi at 227 King Street by AT&T Park. Although the reviews of this place on Yelp are mixed, in our two visits, we’ve found this place to be very good.
The quality [...]

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Eric’s Hunan and Mandarin (Noe Valley)

Eric’s on the corner of 27th and Church Streets in Noe Valley is our favorite in San Francisco for Hunan and Mandarin food. We’ve eaten in and ordered to go. Either way, you can’t go wrong.
Our (current) favorite is their General Tsao’s Chicken. It is crisp and flavorful. We’re also big fans of the [...]

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Dosa (Mission District)

Jan and I finally had the chance to try this relatively new place in the Mission Wednesday night. Dosa, whose opening about a year ago filled a long gaping whole in San Francisco for South Indian cuisine.
Going with a group of 8 geave us the opportunity to go family style and order a wide variety [...]

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A Mellow 8th Anniversary

Last night we celebrated our 8th Anniversary with a quiet chef’s tasting dinner here…

..Jardiniere, that is (review forthcoming tomorrow). The staff was great. They discovered it was our anniversary and that we just wanted something quiet, so we received a plate of petit fours with “Happy Anniversary” written in chocolate. Perfect. Acknowledgement, but subtle and [...]

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