Regent Thai is located right in Noe Valley’s “Gourmet Ghetto”, a 5 or 10 minute walk from our house. Despite its proximity, we had never eaten there before today. This was due to a misremembered cleanliness score from the SF Department of Public Health; a situation resolved today by a quick, serendipitous visit to SFScores.com. Turns out that Regent most recently scored a stellar 98 out of 100; so as of this writing, there’s no need to worry about their food safety. Read the rest of this entry »
Jul
21
2009
Basil
At the height of the dot-com boom, I worked for a (very) hip web consultancy at the corner of 8th and Folsom. Every once in a while, a project manager might notice all of the hard work that we developers were doing and take us out to lunch–and Basil was a very popular choice with both the benefactors and the beneficiaries. Managers liked it because Read the rest of this entry »
Feb
06
2009
Foreign Cinema
Just got back from Foreign Cinema, where, on a Friday night, we were able to walk in and get a table. That’s not a slight to the restaurant at all… more a comment on the ongoing economic crisis. Who says it’s all bad?
Anyway, the food is still pretty fantastic. I started with Read the rest of this entry »
Feb
04
2009
Sushi Ran
Matt (foodie friend from London) was in town last week, and being that this was his first ever visit to the Bay Area, Tracey and I felt obligated to show him the highlights of the vaunted SF restaurant scene. And obviously, we’d have to take him out for sushi, since London’s sushi is always expensive and usually crap.
But where to go? We racked our brains for a place in town that would be worth crossing eight time zones, and couldn’t come up with anything that fit the bill. In a final act of desperation, I started digging through Zagat and came across the listing for Sushi Ran. Now that’s what I’m talking about. Tracey and I had been there for lunch last month and were very impressed, but we had completely forgotten about it in our frenzy to find a place within the 7×7. Fortunately, booking with only a day’s notice was no problem for a Wednesday night, and so we made the picturesque (even at night!) trek across the bridge to Sausalito. Read the rest of this entry »