Archive for the 'San Francisco' Category

Our Dinner at Ame

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

We celebrated our twelfth wedding anniversary last night with dinner at Ame. It was our first visit and we did it up: we shared a tasting menu, several other dishes, and a flight of wine and sake. That was right as a way to explore the restaurant, but I look forward to […]

It was twenty years ago today…

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

I first moved to San Francisco twenty years ago. It was a different city then, and I was a different person, but it’s been a great place to live. It’s felt like home since just after I got here.
It was my sophomore year of college and I had been told to take some […]

A cheese worth making a trip for

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

When we were recently at the Ferry Building, we picked up some burrata mozzarella at the Cowgirl Creamery shop. Eating it is an amazing experience. It’s soft, it’s sweet, it’s salty. A few tomatoes — even if there are no good tomatoes this time of year — and a good bread, with […]

At least the internet never turns into a pile of grey sludge on your doorstep

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

This is rainy season in San Francisco. It’s also, unfortunately, the time of year when Pacific Bell SBC at&t delivers new yellow pages.
I just about stopped using the yellow pages nearly a decade ago, long before I started working at a search engine and long before there was good integration of local information with […]

Sad news

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

From Inside Scoop:

Sept. 1 will be a sad day for fans of chef Sachio Kojima of Kabuto A&S Sushi (5121 Geary Blvd., near 16th Avenue) in the Richmond District. He has sold the business to Jinsoo Kim and Eric Cho, who own Ariake Japanese Restaurant, just a block away at 5041 Geary Blvd. (at 14th […]