San Francisco A2K Gathering - April 9-12, 2004

Today's ad on airfare from SF to London.
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From:
San Francisco, CA

Best Fare:
$211.00* To:
London, United Kingdom - all

Gee, it's going up, my business partner mentioned a price of $189.00 last week...

Also, where is ehBeth, she was thinking of coming to SF..

I thought Piffka was thinking of coming too.

She was, though I know she just got back from Mexico..

I've looked up restaurants in the SF Chronicle's website, and have to cover them by area. The individual restaurants have links at the site that you can check out...
There was a map back on the topic thread earlier. Buying one to have in hand seems easier..


Union Square/Financial District
On quick glance, I liked
Armani Cafe
Fino
Fleur de Lys (expensive good quiet)
L'Olivier
Le Central
Sears Fine Foods
Solce
and that old standby, Tadich Grill

and I also like the coffee shop at the St. Francis for breakfast, big booths, not many customers, food fine, not all that expensive.
Well, I'd like some of the expensive places too, the Vietnamese one for example... and the Japanese Kyo-ya...
mostly I selected for quiet and not top dollar.


Chinatown/North Beach
Cafe Jacqueline - a souffle place, I have eaten there, fine, but I wasn't so in love with it
Cafe Niebaum-Coppola - the place I noticed after I had eaten somewhere else, very intriguing, and quite accessible..
Gira Polli - sounds wonderful
Helmand - Afghan food, well, could be fun
Louie's
Mayhadeh
New Asia
Piperade - this one in particular called to me, basque food..
Sushi on North Beach

Russian and Nob Hills, Bob's Donuts calling
Allegro
Bob's Donuts
(Charles Nob Hill, drool)
Hyde Street Bistro
Rue Lepic
Watergate

Pacific Heights restaurants
Gourmet Carosel
Juban
La Table
Maki - very interesting
Osaka Grill - that too
Takura - and that
Via Veneto?

Tenderloin/Civic Center
Bistro Clovis
Indigo
Fino Estampa
Borobudur (Indonesian)
La'Zeez
Maharani


Marina/Cow Hollow
Hmm, I see they didn't list the vegetarian Greens, but that is in Fort Mason... neat site.

Morpho Sushi, Yukal's Place, Parma Ristorante, Prego, DDen


South of Market Street (SOMA)
Caffe Museo - I've eaten here two or three times when I've been to the modern museum. The food was fine, I actually liked it.
Aperto
Canton - sound neat, probably noisy
Le Charm
Pazzia?
Schnitzelhaus

Fisherman's Wharf
Gaylord India
The Mandarin
(Gary Danko)

Haight/Hayes Restaurants
Zuni Cafe, on Market Street, usually good food, noisy, hip
Metro Cafe
Canti do Brazil
Zazie sounds good


I've skipped Twin Peaks, Noe Valley/Castro, the Mission District, Sunset and Richmond.


Marin County
Well, there are more places that look interesting in Sausalito than I expected. And I found I have been to two other Marin County restaurants I liked a lot that they rate well too. I've skipped San Rafael and Novato and San Anselmo, cities I haven't been to myself, but there are two more places worth mentioning...

In Sausalito -
Poggio
Christophe Restaurant Francais - got three bells for noise but sounds nice
Mikayla

Tiberon -
Caprice - this is on the water, has good seafood, only 2 noise bells, and 2 $$. My ex and I ate there a decade ago on a quiet afternoon and enjoyed the place. The review says it is still good..
Rooney's Cafe and Grill

The El Paseo in Mill Valley said to be very romantic.
Roxanne's in Larkspur - very highly regarded vegetarian

****** also in Larkspur is Emporio Rulli, excellent pastry shop, one of the best I've been in.

And finally, the Olema Farm House Inn, a place I went to a couple of years ago when a friend got married, a countryish restaurant in Olema, a drive, but in a gorgeous area near Point Reyes Station and the shore... that was very good. I liked it better than Manka's, which is also a good place

Calling Piffka, where are you?

OK, I admit that Margo called you shifty--at least she added the 'f' and not another 't.'

Can we convince her to join us? She loves to travel and SF is one of the most beautiful cities in the U.S.
Margo?

Osso and I can track down Piffka. We'll see that she shows up in a day or so.

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We have a couple of very good Afghan restaurants in Sunnyvale. I love their lamb, and elephant ears for dessert.

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Greetings all - I was going to respond sooner, but, jorge et al, I laughed so much this morning that I triggered an asthma attack, and had to go and rest. And my hand was shaking too much to continue filing my teeth!

I usually choose my words v-e-r-y carefully - and I see I was right to take care in this case - such an unwarranted attack on sweet lil ole me!

It's true I'm a travel tart, and I'd love to get there in April, but financially and workwise, it's just out of the question, I'm afraid. Not to mention just how anxious I'd feel if I did turn up! Such fierce scrutiny!

But have a ball! I'll try and find a photo of me that you can use as a dart board!

Hey Margo, no dartboard, instead a place of honor at one of the incredibly tantalizing restaurants osso is finding for us.

Osso, have you or anyone else considered just going from restaurant to restaurant and not bothering with a hotel? It would save us enough money to try more restaurants in different parts of the City.

Hate to dappen things, but I think it'll be pretty difficult to find all-niters in San Francisco.

No, not me, I like to sleep...

Fading here, and I still have some neighborhoods to cover..

Note - I am now adding on to the first restaurant post...

I wish the reason was as simple as lack of money

Osso, the place called "Gaylord India" sounds interesting If you go there, maybe you guyz wont miss me as much !!

Gaylord India


Hmmm, I think the indian restaurants in the tenderloin are more appealing.. heh.

If anyone tried those restaurant links on the previous page and found they didn't work, I've fixed all of them this morning. (aaarrrgh).

osso, Look familiar?

Yes.... but I can't say the exact place. Gads, I may have to actually get my scanner working...

Are you looking through the window at Cafe Presse?