Ame, San Francisco CA

A few hours after sharing two pizzas at Delfina, we had dinner reservations at Ame in the St. Regis Hotel. We weren’t sure we’d be able to eat much, but of course, we still managed! After a somewhat confusing search for parking, we arrived. Here’s what we ate: For our starter, we shared the tempura [...]

Pizzeria Delfina, San Francisco CA

Another weekend trip to SF, only this time I was with my BFF, Amy. And, of course, I planned out several restaurants for us to get to! The first was Pizzeria Delfina. Alan Richman recently rated Pizzeria Delfina as his 3rd favorite in the US, just above Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix. So of course, I [...]

Las Vegas Greek Food Festival 2009

Despite the fact that both of us were suffering from miserable colds, we ventured out to get some food at the Las Vegas Greek Food Festival. I’m ashamed to admit that this was the first time I’d been. It’s held at the St. John The Baptist Greek Orthodox Church off Hacienda and Jones. Parking is [...]

Kilroy’s

I’d been hearing for quite some time that Kilroy’s had great burgers. Unfortunately for me, I think I ordered the wrong burger. I usually love mushroom burgers, but this was a bit excessive! I purposely didn’t improve this shot, so you could see the ridiculous amount of mushrooms in it. Yes, there is actually a [...]

Ad Hoc, Yountville, CA

Another restaurant I wanted to try while in San Francisco was Thomas Keller’s Ad Hoc. Fortunately, Ad Hoc is in Yountville, which is closer to where we were staying. Our menu that day (there’s only one prixe fix menu available, served family style) was a salmon blini appetizer, roasted pork with wild rice, cheese plate, [...]

Namu, San Francisco, CA

This past week, we spent a few days in the San Francisco area. One night we met a couple of friends at Namu, a Japanese-Korean fusion restaurant in the Richmond district. The food consists of mostly small plates, and is served family style. 3 complimentary banchans were given to us, with sigeumchi namul, sukju namul, [...]

Craftsteak

For our wedding anniversary this year, I decided to surprise Adam by taking him to Craftsteak. It was restaurant week, and they were having a great prix fixe menu. I was anxious to see if Tom Colicchio was as good a restaurateur as he was a judge/food critic on Top Chef. ‘Wichcraft, his sandwich place, [...]

‘wichcraft

I finally managed to get to Tom Colicchio’s sandwich shop, ‘wichcraft, last week. After some debating, I decided to try the tuna sandwich, even though I’ve never been a huge fan of tuna… I’ll eat it sometimes, but more than likely opt for turkey or corned beef in the sandwich department. Something about the combination [...]

Rick Bayless’s Black Mole with Chicken

After watching Rick Bayless win the title of Top Chef Master, I wanted to try making that black mole that helped him win! Unfortunately, Vegas isn’t exactly close to Chicago, and he doesn’t have a recipe for it.. yet. But I did find an older recipe for black mole in one of his cookbooks, so [...]

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