San Francisco: the rundown

Here, mostly without comment, is the list I kept of all the stuff I did (ate, mostly) in SF. Will elaborate more later. Thanks to Masha, Anna, Luke, Juliet, Naomi, Karl, Tess and Noa for showing me a great time, letting me sleep in your homes, and generally making me feel welcome in a new favorite city. 

Day one:

  • Mangoes w chili lemon juice and salt on mission
  • Bi-rite ice cream salted caramel and brown sugar w Ginger caramel swirl
  • Dolores park
  • Coffee bar
  • Pirate store/826
  • Paxton gate
  • Tacqueria cancun on mission, chicken burrito I couldn’t finish
  • Elbo room


Day two:

  • Tartine
  • the Castro
  • Ritual
  • Oakland (Temescal)
  • Burma superstar
  • Walk to Berkeley
  • Have you heard about this Nude Sushi place?
  • Triple rock brewery
  • Berkeley rep- “concerning strange devices from the distant west”
  • Jupiter brewery


Day three:

  • Ferry bldg: THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH
  • Maple bacon donut from farmers mkt, blue bottle cold brewed iced coffee
  • Tacos from tacolicious—trio of carnitas, short rib, and veggie 
  • (squash) with citrus punch
  • Cowgirl creamery, assembled a cheeseplate
  • BART back to 24/Mission
  • Phil’z coffee—great despite that posessive Z which is a huge turnoff.
  • Humphrey slocombe
  • Haight/ashbury, panhandle, golden gate park (w00k den)
  • Amoeba
  • Karl and Naomi’s for dinner
  • Zeitgeist


Day four:

  • Four barrel coffee
  • Cafe Zuni
  • Fort mason
  • In N Out burger
  • Ferry bldg again—blue bottle coffee
  • To Anna’s
  • Nopalito w Juliet—really good mexican
  • Luke’s apt, then out on Polk street


Day five:

  • Sandwich, strawberries, mate at whole foods
  • Dolores park; sunburn
  • Ritual, drip coffee
  • Creme brûlée man
  • Bar Tartine- asparagus w craime fraiche, bread pudding, dates stuffed 
  • w bleu
  • Chez panisse


Day six:

  • Piccino: lamb cazuela
  • Golden gate park
  • Blue bottle kiosk
  • Ritual again
  • La Taqueria
  • Amnesia
  • Pizzeria Delfina


Day seven:

  • Boogaloo’s (sp?)
  • Taqueria Cancun- six burritios to go for the freezer back home, and Jonathan’s birthday burrito party
  • Back to Ferry Building- more goods to go, Blue Bottle iced coffee (cold brew!), Salame arugula sandwich from Boccalone
  • SFO.
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