My good friend and roommate's home cooked indian dinner - amazing and pretty dang spicy. I'm not the best with spicy food, but everything looked and smelled so good that I ate it even though my mouth felt like it was on fire. Vik's mom, Mrs. Thairani, knows how to cook!
Dine about town in SF started. For those of you that aren't familiar with what this is, it's a 2 week period in January where most of the fine restaurants in SF create prix fixed menus for $35 dinners that include an appetizer, entree, and dessert. Depending on the restaurants, certain dine about town menus are better than others. But it's a great time to check out new places and it's an excuse to eat...A LOT =)
Below was a kobe beef dish from Supper Club. I have got to say that I'm not the hugest fan of Supper Club, but this specific dish was really good. Supper Club has only one dinner a night and it's usually around $100 per person or so. Everybody gets the same dishes and there is entertainment to accompany the dinner- usually singers, acrobats, dancers, etc. Definitely an interesting concept and great idea, but not always well executed and I don't think the food is worth the $100 tab.
This dish below was a dinner I had with girlfriends at Ruth's Chris steakhouse. Now they have a great dine about town menu. You get a steak, side dish, salad, and dessert for $35. Pretty amazing. The food was awesome. I got a shrimp and steak combo, which is what you see below. Very yummy and great steak.
More recently, last night my coworkers and I went to Salt House. Salt House is owned by the same owner as Town Hall, another restaurant in SF. The ambience was pretty cool- exposed brick, dim lighting, and an urban space. I thought Salt House was a dine about town participant, but it turns out they only had a lunch menu. Oh well, no big deal. The food was still delicious. I must say that their appetizers are better than the entrees. The restaurant is known for their fish, which is definitely light and moist, but it's not that flavorful. I tried some of my friends' petra sole and cod. I felt like chicken and that's what I got (pictured below). It was damn good. Chicken breast pieces that were moist and had nice pieces of crisp skin on top of them. It was served on a bed of a pasta, leeks, and some bacon. YUMMY. We got some pinot noir to go with it and a few appetizers. My favorite was the foie gras. So good. The scallops were also excellent.
Lastly, I celebrated by birthday a week or so ago. Went to Roy's for dinner with my parents and my aunt and uncle who were visiting from Michigan. I've been to Roy's a few times already, but I really love the way they do their seafood and they have one of the best chocolate souffles. We all did their dine about town menu, which is phenomenol. I got an appetizer sampler, butterfish, and the souffle. The butterfish was amazing. Juicy, tender, and tasted like butter. They also didn't just give one piece of the fish, they gave three! Pictured below was their special bday present to me. More food! :)
Until next time.... =)
