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A Sparkling Vietnamese Treat: Lily Restaurant with Henriot Champagne

March 28, 2020 Leave a Comment

Lily Avocado, Dungeness crab and Kauai shrimp rolls with strawberry fish sauce

Lily is a not-yet opened Cal-Vietnamese restaurant in San Francisco’s Richmond District. We hope that it will survive San Francisco’s restaurant shut-down and will open once the Coronavirus allows us to go out to restaurants again.If it does, it is definitely a place to go if the food is even 50% as good as the […]

Filed Under: Dining, Featured-City, San Francisco, SF-Dining Tagged With: Henriot Champagne, Lily Restaurant, Rob Lam, Tsar Nicoulai

Anderson Valley and Mendocino Wine and Food Update—May 2015

June 1, 2015 Leave a Comment

We were recently on the way from San Francisco to Mendocino and made a brief Anderson Valley winery stop, which was, in turn a two-day detour on the way to Eureka (see our next post on the Humboldt County Kinetic Sculpture Championships). Anderson Valley Highlights After a brief visit at Silver Oak’s Anderson Valley tasting room (for […]

Filed Under: Cities, Dining, Featured-City, Mendocino, Restaurants, SF-Dining, SF-Wine/Wineries, Wine Events, Wine Tasting Tagged With: Mendocino, restaurants, wineries

A Night to Remember at North Beach’s Sotto Mare

May 13, 2015 Leave a Comment

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The Northern California Chapter of the American Institute of Wine & Food (or AWIF), hosted its inaugural New American Monday Dinner at North Beach’s Sotto Mare Oysteria and Seafood restaurant on May 11, 2015. The wonderful sold-out event was a good time had by all. What made the event so special? A combination of three […]

Filed Under: Cities, Dining, Events, Featured-City, Food & Wine, Restaurants, San Francisco, SF-Dining, SF-Wine/Wineries, Wine Events, Wine Tasting Tagged With: restaurants, San Francisco, Wine events

Catching Up with San Francisco Museums – Summer 2014

August 27, 2014 Leave a Comment

One of the few downsides of regular travel is that it often forces you to miss or at least postpone taking advantage of things in your home city. And since so much is always happening in San Francisco, there is a lot to miss. Fortunately, our summer trips were outside of theater season, which meant […]

Filed Under: Cities, Dining, San Francisco, SF-Dining Tagged With: restaurants, San Francisco

The Best of Napa

February 6, 2019 Leave a Comment

We came, we tasted, we once again surrendered to the wines, the foods and the experiences of Napa Valley in California.  We provided blow-by-blow (o at least winery-by-winery and restaurant-by-restaurant descriptions of many of our favorite tops from our two week stay in Napa. Following are our three favorites in each of four categories: Napa […]

Filed Under: Art, Events, Featured-Trips, Napa, Restaurants, SF-Art, SF-Dining, SF-Wine/Wineries, Wine Events, Wine Region, Wine Tasting Tagged With: art, Napa, wine tasting, wineries

Upper Valley Restaurants—St. Helena to Calistoga

July 16, 2014 Leave a Comment

This trip saw a return to two of our oft-visited area restaurants, CIA and Solbar, one big disappointment and discovery of Archetype, another new (at least for us) valley favorite. Archetype (St. Helena). What took us so long to discover this two-year old restaurant? We shared two dishes: peanut-crusted soft shell …

Filed Under: Dining, Napa, Restaurants, SF-Dining, Wine Region Tagged With: Napa, restaurants

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