Martinis!! And... food
Mar. 12th, 2009 01:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wwcitizenYesterday was fun. We miss our tour bus over the Golden Gate Bridge because it took over 45 minutes to steam a freakin crab for some reason. But lunch was good at Scoma's Restaurant - clearly a mafia hang out. Too many ritzy cars for that area of town at the end of a well-situated dock. All the patrons were business people meeting with geriatric, dressed-to-the-nines, and quaffed matriarchs with their counterpart patriarchs.
After lunch, we took the cable car back up the hill to close to the top of Lombard St (the crooked portion of the street). Great vista for pictures of the Coit Tower, Oakland Bay Bridge, and Alcatraz, as well as the street. I cannot fathom that anyone native to San Francisco, unless they live on Lombard in that section of the neighborhood, would ever honestly want to teeter precariously down the curves on a regular basis. From the looks of it, only tourists were driving down the street yesterday.
Little Italy and Chinatown were our next destinations (we stumbled on Little Italy), and it stands to reason that they're next to each other as they are in NYC. However, the difference here is that neither section is trying desperately to take over the other neighborhood as Chinatown is doing in NY. Matt discovered his wok store in Chinatown and he was so cute when it hit him that that was the store. TheWokShop.com was the name of the store and the website. We're probably heading back there today to shop a little in Chinatown after the Golden Gate bus tour.
We met friends in The Castro for cocktails and dinner at La Mediterranee, which is primarily a Middle Eastern place. I was concerned that Matt wouldn't care for it too much, but they had a lot of things we have at Greek restaurants as well as some things (I didn't tell him) that were strictly not Greek, but very Middle Eastern (Lamb Lule, Chicken Pomegranate, tabuleh, and couscous for example). The only issue we had with the place was all the little dishes on the small table for our dinners - with Matt and me ordering the mixed selection, for instance, each of the 10 things came out in its own dish. Irritating.
We ended the night after a couple of drinks at Frathouse back at our hotel in the bar with Keith - our new favorite bartender in San Francisco. Not only was he really cool on Monday night and provided great martinis, but last night after we ordered and cashed out with our cosmos, he let us taste a martini-equivalent cucumber vodka AS WELL AS his own formulation of a cosmo called a kizmo, which had different flavored vodkas for the ultimate flavor. So, we had FOUR drinks for the price of two!! SCORE!
After lunch, we took the cable car back up the hill to close to the top of Lombard St (the crooked portion of the street). Great vista for pictures of the Coit Tower, Oakland Bay Bridge, and Alcatraz, as well as the street. I cannot fathom that anyone native to San Francisco, unless they live on Lombard in that section of the neighborhood, would ever honestly want to teeter precariously down the curves on a regular basis. From the looks of it, only tourists were driving down the street yesterday.
Little Italy and Chinatown were our next destinations (we stumbled on Little Italy), and it stands to reason that they're next to each other as they are in NYC. However, the difference here is that neither section is trying desperately to take over the other neighborhood as Chinatown is doing in NY. Matt discovered his wok store in Chinatown and he was so cute when it hit him that that was the store. TheWokShop.com was the name of the store and the website. We're probably heading back there today to shop a little in Chinatown after the Golden Gate bus tour.
We met friends in The Castro for cocktails and dinner at La Mediterranee, which is primarily a Middle Eastern place. I was concerned that Matt wouldn't care for it too much, but they had a lot of things we have at Greek restaurants as well as some things (I didn't tell him) that were strictly not Greek, but very Middle Eastern (Lamb Lule, Chicken Pomegranate, tabuleh, and couscous for example). The only issue we had with the place was all the little dishes on the small table for our dinners - with Matt and me ordering the mixed selection, for instance, each of the 10 things came out in its own dish. Irritating.
We ended the night after a couple of drinks at Frathouse back at our hotel in the bar with Keith - our new favorite bartender in San Francisco. Not only was he really cool on Monday night and provided great martinis, but last night after we ordered and cashed out with our cosmos, he let us taste a martini-equivalent cucumber vodka AS WELL AS his own formulation of a cosmo called a kizmo, which had different flavored vodkas for the ultimate flavor. So, we had FOUR drinks for the price of two!! SCORE!
