Wednesday, 6/8/16

Took a long bus out to Potrero Hill for a fabulous breakfast at Plow. Everything was pretty good, but the biscuits with honey butter and the lemon-ricotta pancakes were stellar. How did they get those pancakes so lemony? Then we walked around Dogpatch and caught a bus all the way out to the beach!

Jessica and Corrina contemplating the beauty. Or maybe just shivering?

Stopped at Park Chow for lunch, but everyone secretly wanted to go back to Nopalito so it was a tiny bit disappointing (spaghetti and meatballs for me, fish taco for Jessica, tuna melt for Corrina). Also, I spilled tomato sauce on my shirt. Luckily there were pastries at home to console us.

Dinner was Atelier Crenn and honestly I don't have the heart to remember all 20 courses. I will say that I was annoyed with this place before we even started: expensive, draconian reservation policy, the menu is just a nonsensical poem....I was tempted to cancel. But we went! It was a mixed bag: sat there in the freezing cold dining room for 30 minutes with no menus or anything. The dishes were all pretty good, and a few were excellent: a salmon dish, some abalone, pickled mussels....The desserts were super pretty and whimsical but not my flavors.The service was not precisely gracious.  Let's just say it was no Alinea.