I had a great meal at Wexler’s, in celebration of my birthday. (Thanks Andy, Anita and Candy!) We kicked off with a “Bowl ‘o’ Red”, which is a Texas-style chili with short ribs. It’s not your average chili – it’s even better. We all got a sandwich, and nothing disappointed. The Fulton Valley chicken, the [...]
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It’s about time a sit-down Korean restaurant opened up in the Financial District. After all, John’s Snack & Deli can only handle so many people at a time. Stone Korean Kitchen took over the Japanese restaurant Oishii Embarcadero, which I’m glad is gone because it was just not worth it. While Stone Korean Kitchen is [...]
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I had lunch with Anita at Bund Shanghai in Chinatown. In addition to our usual soup dumpling (小籠包) and noodle soup order, this time being the eight treasure noodle soup, we also got their pan-fried dumplings, or in Chinese, sheng jian bao (生煎包). It was amazingly good. It was moist and crispy at the same [...]
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I was just at Broadway Cafe in Chinatown last week and decided to go again this week, this time taking advantage of their Monday lunch specials: broccoli beef or black pepper sauce chicken steak for $4.75. I went with the latter. The chicken steak was pretty big – crispy and all sauced up. Add spaghetti [...]
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I’ve been working in the Financial District for years now and I finally went to check out Siam Kitchen for some Thai food. I just don’t think that there are any Thai restaurants that stand out in the Financial District. Siam Kitchen was just okay. Nothing memorable. Everyone raves about their Gai Kra Prow (Spicy [...]
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I’m so hooked on Tea Garden. It’s nothing special, but for Taiwanese food in San Francisco, it’s good enough. This time I got their pork chop over rice (排骨飯), which came with stewed pork (肉燥), a tea egg (茶葉蛋) and some pickled greens (雪菜). I also gave their milk tea another shot, this time just [...]
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Anita, Candy and I haven’t done lunch at Bund Shanghai in a while. There was a time it felt like we were going every week. anyway, we just shared a few things: beef noodle soup (牛肉面), rice roll (飯糰), mu shu shrimp (木須蝦), and of course, their soup dumplings (小籠包). I usually like their soup [...]
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Anita found a cool Italian restaurant located at a dead-end alley called Hardie Place, off of Kearny St. It’s called Pasta Bene. The food was pretty good. The mussels in the linguine was no good, with a lot of them being almost closed, but the sauce was good, and the angel hair with salmon and [...]
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Since today was such a nice day, we decided to eat outdoors at Bistro Burger on Sansome St. We all decided to go healthy and grab turkey burgers. I had the turkey burger with apple chutney because I figured that since turkey is usually dry, I’d need something juicier to go with it. Not bad! I [...]
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Andy, Anita, Gordon and I celebrated Candy’s birthday with her at Palio D’Asti during our lunch break. The food was okay. It was definitely worth it after we used a Restaurant.com certficate – $50 off! We got an appetizer, a couple pizzas, a pasta and a rissoto. Just the perfect amount. We ended with a [...]
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