8.3.10

Tartine Bakery. I ate: a currant scone (very good), ham and tomato quiche (very fluffy - best quiche I've tasted), gougere, cake aux olives (a bit like quiche but drier and not as scrumptious), bread pudding (no crispy crusty bits, which to me is a key characteristic), and shortbread (what's not to like).



For Tartine's morning bun recipe (omitted from their cookbook) care of 7x7 click here.

7.26.10

Humphry Slocombe - I tasted: peanut butter curry (not as weird as I thought it would be but wasn't ready to eat an entire scoop), blackberry shortbread (good, straightforward), malted milk chocolate (mm), secret breakfast (the signature - toasted cornflakes and bourbon), brown butter (VERY rich), and Eight Ball Stout (ordered it for someone else and liked it so much I ate it all - pictured above). For a good NY times article about Humphry Slocombe and its proprietor, Jake Godby click here.

6.13.10 . . .

Heart Wine Bar in the Mission. House wine is $6.00 (quite good) served in mason jars - what's not to like.

Appetizer at Flour + Water of sea bass wrapped in speck. We also tasted the seared yellowtail appetizer with greens and fresh lemon. For dinner we shared the osso pizza (who doesn't love lumps of bone marrow on dough-y goodness), the zucca pizza (which had ricotta, squash, cerignola olives, and the un-advertised addition of lavendar), a delicious raviolini with shaved fresh porcinis, and chitarra verde with fennel, agrumato & prosecco braised mussels & clams. yumm. For dessert all but one of us declined, yet all of us enjoyed tasting the chocolate budino with sea salt. Delish.