Food & Drink
I LOVE Portland Food
Portland is a great city for foodies. It has an eclectic selection of options, the produce is fresh and often times organic & local, you can get amazing food for cheap and you don’t get the same food snobbery that you see in San Francisco. Here are some of the amazing things we ate in [...]
Oregon Wine Country
One of our favorite things about Oregon is the wonderful wine that comes out of the Willamette Valley. On our second trip through the wine country, we visited our old favorite Stoller Vineyards as well as some new ones Panther Creek, Redhawk and Benton Lane. Similar to the Napa Valley, the Willamette Valley has gorgeous [...]
Portland, Oregon
After driving up from San Francisco, Nick & I settled into the Ace Hotel in Downtown Portland and soon after met up with our friends Fred & Ali for a terrific holiday weekend. Portland is definitely a foodie’s city and we had some incredible meals. It’s also a great city for vintage shopping as the [...]
Road Trip From San Francisco to Portland
Nick & I took a road trip from San Francisco to Portland & back for the Fourth of July weekend. We took the 5 up, hitting cool towns like Shasta and Ashland, and for the way back we went through Oregon wine country on the way to the coast. It was one of the most [...]
Macarons
My new obsession is Paulette on Hayes in Hayes Valley. Their French macarons are insanely delicious & completely different than traditional macarons. For one, there are three textures in Paulette’s delectable cookies, crunchy, chewy and gooey. And as you bite into them the flavors explode like a mini filled cupcake of gloriousness. Two, there is [...]
Sunday Dinner
I finally learned how to make a roasted stuffed chicken…though due to a lack of some tools, I ended up doing a silly stuffing job. Still, the meal was quite tasty! (P.S. For some random reason WordPress won’t allow me to order my pictures so please excuse the backwards steps.)
Hog Island Oyster Co.
Yesterday Nick & I went up to Hog Island Oyster Co. in Tomales Bay for our friend Dean’s 30th Birthday…
Growlers
I have seen a lot of growlers in my day, but nothing like these. The giant mason jar is from Lagunitas Brewing in Petaluma and with an ale inside, it looks a bit like a pee jar. On the other hand, Magnolia Pub & Brewery makes a beautiful growler complete with a ceramic and rubber [...]
Spork & Cheese
While Nick’s mum Kathy and brother Johnny were in town, we ate out a lot. One of those spots was Spork in the Mission, which has a really yummy Southern-inspired brunch. While I had a take on huevos rancheros with carnitas and cabbage, Nick had a burger with gravy and an egg. Both were exceptional. [...]
Curry
My dad was an amazing chef. So good that I cannot help but compare most food to his, especially when it comes to curry. Even though I have some of his prized recipes, I rarely use them because when I do nothing ever tastes quite as good as what he created. But I’m happy to [...]
Jolly Ol’ Weekend
Friday night Nick & I headed over to House of Shields to see our friends Dean & Laura play a Haiti benefit gig with their band Tracing Figures. The bar itself is a piece of charming San Francisco history in that it is rumored that President Warren G. Harding died in this speakeasy and was [...]
Sunday Supper
Nick and I had a tapas-esque dinner last night where we experimented with cooking new things and trying out new methods of cooking as well. We loaded up at Whole Foods on fresh vegetables, scallops, steak and cheese then perused a variety of cookbooks for ideas. Maybe it was the unusually spotless kitchen or the [...]
Stone World Bistro & Gardens
This last weekend Nick and I went to the Stone Brewery in Escondido for lunch and some beer tasting. The Stone World Bistro & Gardens is a beautiful oasis in an otherwise arid and lackluster area. There is a large garden with seating throughout, an indoor and outdoor restaurant, a store with a tasting section [...]
The Tasting Kitchen in Venice
Recently the Scandinavian restaurant in Venice AK closed down due to creative differences between the chef and the owners. Nick and I had gone once for dinner and though we enjoyed the food, the portions were small for the price and we hesitated on going back. But when the owners decided to reopen the restaurant [...]
New York: Food
There is a plethora of good eats in New York and I was excited to introduce my sister Khrista to some of my favorite spots. From Mamouns in the East Village to Dim Sum in China Town to homemade Pakistani food in Staten Island, we ate a lot. Nick and I love walking around cities, [...]
Weekend in Portland, Oregon: A Guide
Nick and I paid our first visit to Portland, Oregon earlier this month where we had an incredible time exploring the city, the wine county and breathing the fresh green air. We are big fans of the Pacific Northwest and when we saw a travel deal on Orbitz for direct flights from LA and hotel [...]