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San Francisco Travel Notes – Japantown, Pacific Heights and Marina

San Francisco Travel Notes – Japantown, Pacific Heights and Marina

The moment I arrive at my hotel in San Francisco, I throw my suitcases into the room, wash my face and I’m out the door. I don’t care how tired and swollen I get after a 14-hour flight. There is no time to waste.

Out of the hotel, I take a right. Twenty steps later, I’m standing in front of the coziest and best manicured public park my eyes have ever seen. I gaze at the empty bench and start dreaming of the afternoons I’ll spend there, reading a book while Linda, my Airedale Terrier, sits quietly by my side.

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November 16, 2015 · 11 Comments Categories: Restaurants, San Francisco, Travel Tags: Golden Gate Bridge, Japantown, Marina, Pacific Heights, san francisco, san francisco travel notes

Dandelion Chocolate + Great News!

Dandelion Chocolate + Great News!

The plans I had for my San Francisco trip… I was hoping to have breakfast at Tartine, lunch at Pizzeria Delfina, dinner at Zuni, ice cream at Bi-Rite Creamery & Humphry Slocombe and several coffees throughout the day at Blue Bottle EVERY SINGLE DAY. Then, I was going to visit every vintage store and photograph every mural in town, beg the lady at Cookin! for discounts, take photos of every corner of my old neighborhood to create a humongous panoramic photo for one of the walls at home, buy a luggage-full of vintage cookbooks at Omnivore, eat at In-N-Out Burger on my way to and back from Carmel and arrange a private showing to see my dream future home in Big Sur (if my cookbook sells two million more copies, I’ll be able to afford it!). Oh, and beg, cry and sleep at Nepenthe‘s doorstep to convince them to adopt me – just in case my cookbook doesn’t sell millions of copies. All these in two weeks.

I never even entered Tartine, had pizza at Delfina and lunch at Zuni only once, inhaled many (but never enough) scoops of salted caramel ice cream from Bi-Rite Creamery and managed to cross off about 1% of the murals. And not just because there wasn’t enough time or that I was the designated tour guide of a very ambitious party of four, but also because the city is full of new places to explore. It’s been almost five years since my last visit. The list of my new favorites is so long, it’s impossible to put all of them into a single post. I wanted to start off with my most favorite place: Dandelion Chocolate.

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June 26, 2015 · 31 Comments Categories: Chocolate, San Francisco, Travel Tags: bean-to-bar chocolate, best in the world, dandelion chocolate, gourmand awards, gourmand world cookbook awards 2015, mission, nib toffee brittle, san francisco

Pistachio Butter, Chocolate & Fleur de Sel Tartine

Pistachio Butter, Chocolate & Fleur de Sel Tartine

I forgot to mention one last detail about the book: It weighs 5.5 pounds! So you could imagine my surprise and gratitude when a reader brought 3 copies in a carry-on luggage to my second book signing.

I certainly didn’t expect that. Actually, I was worried that most of the readers wouldn’t be so willing to lug the giant. I couldn’t let anyone leave empty-handed, so I brought along a box of recipe cards. The recipe printed on them was for my (then) latest addiction: Pistachio Butter, Chocolate & Fleur de Sel Tartine.

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May 13, 2015 · 7 Comments Categories: Best of Cafe Fernando, Bread, Chocolate Tags: Chocolate, chocolate tartine, fleur de sel, pistachio, pistachio butter, pistachio cream, pistachio paste, tartine

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