Nephew #1 turns 17

Last weekend, my sister's oldest (nephew #1) turned 17...

What's a Filipino birthday party without pancit (as seen above) and freshly sliced (and deseeded) calamansi...

Return to Romesco's Mexiterranean for lunch

Just as I had hoped...

Our planning calendar meeting day culminated in a working lunch over at Romesco's...

The future SFFCC and Victoria Manolo Draves Park

As we wandered the SoMa looking for La Boulange earlier...

I noticed a building across Mission street with a big black board...

Tribute to Dr. Fred Cordova

This is a belated post that I meant to publish in early 2014...

If there was any book that changed my life, this was it:

Sadly, the author, Fred Cordova passed away a few days before Christmas and after hearing the news, it really  hit me how much his book made an impact on me more than twenty years ago...

La Boulange - Yerba Buena

Before driving off in our car to see the Golden Gate Bridge, we made a quick stop to a local bakery...

which WASN'T here (photo above). I took the photo because it has Inday Filipino Kitchen on the sign!

This was a busy area in the Financial District...

Dessert at Blush once again...

Astroboi and I were originally going to go to the Food Blogger Bake Sale in PB but spent more time in Mission Hills without realizing that they would be closing up soon (as alerted by Mary)...

Plan B was over in Kearny Mesa...

where we passed by what used to be U-Mart (the old Zion Market), which is now Hana Mart...

Our dessert destination was supposed to have it's "grand opening" today...

Meshuggah Shack

At night, this sign looks quite cool...

Astroboi and I thought we'd check what was "on the other side"...

Enjoying the pretty lavender blooms of the jacarandas...

Return to the Ferry Building - Humphry Slocombe

Trudging along the Embarcadero in the hot sun wasn't my idea of fun, but we wanted to get back so we could do some other stuff that afternoon. We still had dinner plans with my former student who is now a musician.

Back at the Ferry Building, we encountered crowds...

and a long line at our next stop, Humphry Slocombe, which replaced a gelato shop...

Lunch at Pier Market, Pier 39

After seeing the boisterous and rather pungent smelling sea lions on the other side of the wharf...

we looked around to see where we could have a quick lunch snack.   I thought the store above was cool, especially since I am a lefty myself...

TC was dead set on having clam chowder in a bread bowl, so we went here...

to a place that was both a tourist trap and also one that was voted "Best Seafood in SF", Pier Market at Pier 39.

Return to M-Theory

We thought we'd check out the used record and cd place up on Washington St.

I hadn't been here in awhile and we were both curious to see what they had in their racks...

I was hoping they would have their buy one get one free sale like last time, but...

Return to Gelato Vero Caffe's brunch

After my donut break at Donut Panic with Cathy, I headed over to Astroboi's place nearby...

He lives just up the hill from Grantville...and I totally needed to use his bathroom.

Coffee, you know...