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February 7, 2016

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Atelier Crenn

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One of my favourite meals in San Francisco!!! I call this a fantasy degustation 🙂 Non stop entertainment from beginning till end! Flavours and textures I have not tasted before An envelope was placed on the table – it’s a poem written by the Chef herself which is the inspiration for the menu! I already knew this would be a meal to remember Non stop amazement as each dish comes out!! Presentation, taste, creativity and entertainment all in one! One of my favorite -dish number 13 – A different kind of Cheeseplate at Atelier Crenn – Tart meal with Buckwheat flour stuffed with caramelized onions. Cheese from Pasteurized cow’s milk called Oma from Cellars at Jasper Hill farms seasoned with fresh honey and thyme and black truffles Mini wet towel to wipe only your fingertips 🙂 Atelier Crenn (59) Restroom

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February 7, 2016

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Sightings at the Bay Area and Downtown San Francisco

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Groomingdales! 🙂 Spotted! Smart friend, Andres Limcaoco, in Stanford University The most popular ice cream flavor in Humphrey Slocombe – Secret Breakfast which has Bourbon and cornflakes cookies. Also a favorite of our foodie son Mmmm… A rainbow Wow 🙂Buyers of Lotto ticket with a historic jackpot of $ 1.5B
Pretty Kitty 🙂Love the twigs at Sur La Table
Pottery Barn! A yoga studio in San FranciscoSan Francisco City Hall
Yum! I always bump into familiar faces in @target. Gumamela Triccie @tlacson with her daughter Sara @karina__dancer with her Dad and sister who arrived from Manila and surprised her

Water for customer at Williams SonomaValentine Cookie in Starbucks
Easter at Pottery Barn! Cheese cakes!!! When Dad and Mom lived in San Francisco in the 1960’s they lived right beside Japan Town and their favorite was this Grilled Rib Eye steak teriyaki ( now $15.95) It’s two layers of thinly sliced rib eye. So everytime we go to SF, they always eat in Kushi Tsuru in Japan Town and order this dish! It’s YUM! To them it’s YUM at the same time it brings back memories Pringles! Oreos!

February 7, 2016

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Benu

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From Hawthorne st. you can watch the kitchen window of Benu. Courtyard The background music comes from a turntable by the entrance of the restaurant with the jacket of the record beside so you can see what’s playing- when we arrived Billie Holiday Songs was playing

Benu (52)

Our pretty server. Love their uniforms Benu (51) From our table – our view of Korean clay pots called Ongi which is used to preserve and ferment. Each has a label. They use to ferment – Sake lees, champagne vinegar, shoyu soy sauce to name a few. My most favourite were the small delicacies – there were 10 of them Bread with fresh butter ( shaped like a honeycomb) with fresh honey infused with ginseng 5-tined fork
They gave us a tour of the kitchen 🙂 A very young and handsome 3 Michelin star Korean Chef Corey Lee of Benu ( American Korean ). The restaurant is only 5 years old. The Tasting menu changes daily and they keep a record of your visit and the menu you had so when you visit again they know what you had. Heart2Heart highly recommends this restaurant

February 6, 2016

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Renovated Crustacean

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There are 2 Thanh Longs in SF city – one is the original/ first branch and the other branch is called Crustacean in Polk st.

Previous entry: Crustacean San Francisco Sept 2013

Thanh Long July 10, 2012

We would go to Crustacean because it’s usually easier to reserve. Tonight we are back and its newly renovated since November. It’s nice now! It’s a better dining experience so i highly recommend this branch Renovated Crustacean (6) We always order the same things are we are happy:-) They removed this from the menu but we asked for it and they had it 🙂 Fried Calamari Rice Paper Shrimp Roll
Filled with poached shrimp, rice noodles, rau ram and green mango wrapped in soft rice paper, served with a spicy peanut sauce. Skewered Beef
Tender slices of beef marinated with lemongrass, sesame and asian herbs then grilled. The Roast Crab
An entire dungeness crab roasted to perfection with garlic and spices

We were wondering why there was no head so we asked the server and apparently the crabs that were delivered had no heads! But anyway the taste was still the same They gave us free dessert in lieu of the crabs having no heads

Hazelnut cake Fried Banana

February 5, 2016

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Chantal Guillon

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Stopped by this Macaron place in Stanford This caught my attention! It reminded me of my favourite Pino chocolate in Japan I tried this one since it resembled Pino and I loved it 🙂 Here it is 🙂 Yum 🙂

February 4, 2016

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Grand Harbor Dimsum and Seafood Restaurant

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A new discovery in the Bay Area!! A new Chinese restaurant! Thank you Pepe for introducing this place to us!!! I am sure we will be back here many times! Mom discussing the menu – very serious! 🙂Love our waiter – who is probably the manager! I forgot his name! But look for him! Very nice and very funny too 🙂Chinese is always a good choice when it’s a big group. We were happy to see my cousin, Rissa and Charlie with their kids Steve and Alex
Grand Harbor Dimsum and Seafood Restaurant (22) So happy to be with Dad’s friend from childhood. Liliom who grew up with Daddy in Bacolod and his wife Arceli
and with Pepe Roast pork! Yum! Peking Duck two ways Fresh prawns cooked in soy sauce. Yum!!!! It was even on 50% discount that evening Special fried rice in clay pot LIVE Alaskan King Crab

3 ways – With salted egg ( my favorite!!!!) Grand Harbor Dimsum and Seafood Restaurant (15) Steamed with garlic and Steamed with egg First time to see oysters served this way Complimentary dessert – Mango and coconut pudding

February 4, 2016

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Back in Juban

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My boys love Yakiniku! Even when in SF they look for it!! Back in Juban (5) So Juban is the usual place we go to. Back in Juban (6) Back in Juban (7)

For some reason the Kalbi ( the most basic and bestseller) which is 3$ more than the tongue is the one that’s rubbery and we had the same experience 2 years ago. My new favorite in Juban is the Beef Tongue. It’s tender and not rubbery, just make sure it’s the pink ones ( not the 2 dark ones on the side) Make sure it’s also well done. We also had the skirt steak which is same price as the tongue and it had more flavor than the Kalbi. So it’s good to experiment once in awhile. They have a yakishabu which is thinly sliced beef and might be like a shabu shabu cut.

February 3, 2016

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Acquerello

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Chef Suzette is one of the 2 female chefs in the USA that have 2 Michelin Stars Love all the little things they give that is not in the menu 🙂 Orange Juice with sweet Vermouth grenadine

Calamareto stuffed with scallops and fennel pesto We got the prix fixe menu. Choose 3, 4 or 5 course. 3 course really means 6 and 5 course really means 10 🙂 because of all the things they give before, in between and after

Happy to meet Head Sommelier – Rafael Santos – who is Filipino. Raphael but changed to Rafael by the Italians and Pepel was his nickname in the Philippines. 🙂 Pepel graduated from Fordham Univ and worked in the field of Finance in Wall Street, London and San Francisco for 4 years and realized that it was not for him. He became a Sommelier and has been working in Acquerello for 7 years already. Though he said that he learned to appreciate wine during his meetings in his previous job. Pepel is such a nice guy and it’s nice to know we have many common friends- one of them is Chef Tippi Tambunting of @m_dining.bar and @donosti_pintxos More power to Pepel ? If you decide to dine in Acquerello, make sure to look for Pepel Again not in the list but super yum! Chef’s surprise profiterole with herb ricotta Love all the personalised “A” letters in the placeParmesan custard with truffle oil and black truffle
Olive and rosemary – fresh butter with lava salt from Hawaii Black Angus beef tartare Snake River Farms Pork belly Porcini and Chanterelle Casonsci with sweetbreads Lobster Panzerotti

An off the menu dish but regulars know this dish. Yum! Acquerello Risotto Ridged pasta with foie gras, black truffle and Marsala – this was in the Tasting menu but we requested if we could have it as one of our courses and they agreed 🙂 Maine lobster Pancetta wrapped Venison Grilled swordfish Bourbon caramel semifreddo White truffle gelato at @acquerellosf YUM! Accdg to Pepel @pepelsantos this gelato was created because of an accident. Someone in the kitchen put the white truffles in the freezer and to try to rectify the mistake he told Chef Suzette he will make it into gelato! Ever since then it’s being served when truffles are in season Love this cart!!! Petit fours all you want!!! Acquerello (30) the Seasonal Tasting menu that looked so good but we knew we would not be able to finish A gift in a box for each diner. Biscotti freshly made by Acquerello Cheese cartCheers 🙂 to a wonderful meal!

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February 2, 2016

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Mission Chinese

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Our Hotelie and Foodie son, Jaime, takes us to the most unique places! Tried out Mission Chinese Food Restaurant in the City. Outside the sign said Lung Shan Restaurant so that throws you off already,

Mission Chinese (1) then you expect a typical Chinese restaurant but it’s so dark in red lighting with disco lights and hip hop music and a dragon in the ceiling 🙂 and the diners are mostly Caucasian. Love discovering unique restaurants

Salt Cod Fried rice – wish it had more salt cod Super yum! General Tso’s Beef Ribs Mapotofu – too spicy for us 🙂 Super Yum! Tiki Pork Belly, Polynesian Sauce Click below to go to their website