The Daily Sabs

tonight a gang of us went to PPQ to celebrate life choices by eating a bunch of crabs. julie is leaving the sugar gang soon and wanted me to remember that i should keep hanging out with her because she has excellent food taste. duh, like my waistline could forget.

ps. the phone ate my original post and won't send pics, so all you get is the blurry group photo that was hastily taken because well hello, there were lots of crabs to eat.

pps. i think the eating of photos and posts might have something to do with the fact that my phone has almost 10k photos on it. just maybe.

This morning kellan confessed that she'd never had a banh mi
(Vietnamese sandwich) before. I told her that we could remedy that
problem today and planned on taking her to cafe dolci. While not the
best, it is definitely solid. Garrick heard our plan and was inspired
to go to out-the-door instead. At that point it was decided that we'd
all go there since out-the-door is on the up and up, while dolci is a
little sketch (to some, to me it is solid good but others find their
$3 sandwiches scary). O-T-D ending up being a delicious choice though,
so thanks for the suggestion GT.

Speaking of delicious, after work Randall and I finally checked out
off the grid down at fort mason. Omfg. Why hasn't anyone dragged me
down there before? It was like food truck heaven. I had a chairman bao
duck bao, lamb kabobs, a samurai snack, potstickers, duck tacos, fried
chicken, pineaple salted caramel shave ice, and a delightful guava
cupcake to finish it all off. Thank god I splitsvilled them with
Randall (except the desserts those were all mine) and thank god I've
been going to the gym.

Not pictured is Erin, who also joined us at the feastival. I was in
the nom-zone and forgot to take pictographs by the time she arrived.

Okay. So who's going with me next week?!

this evening randall and i headed over to baker and banker for a postponed birthday celebration. since we don't do fine dining much these days (thank you economy!), we decided to go ahead and splurge on the chef's tasting menu. i really enjoyed everything, and while it was all perfectly done, i actually thought it was a bit under seasoned. it didn't stop me from eating it though, it was definitely a great meal. the kicker though, was the dessert - a perfectly cooked (as in crispy on top, gooey on the bottom) peanut butter blondie, with bacon brittle ice cream and a stripe of chocolate. it was such a smile-inducing dessert, that it was sort of ridiculous that the dessert itself looked so unhappy. but then again, that made me smile doublyso.

ps. it took almost an hour to get home today. apparently someone was hit by a muni train at my station. the news is pretty unclear, i'm not sure if it was an accident or on purpose. either way pretty awful, i wonder how the scene will look in the morning.

pps. we were totally sat next to former mayor willie brown. i wasn't 100% sure (it was dark and i didn't really want to stare), but it was confirmed when he got up leave and put on a ridiculously fancy hat.

this evening randall and i treated chris and sam to a dinner at red lobster. it was chris's birthday and we thought it would be a good gift. a little while back chris saw a red lobster coupon at our house and asked if he could have it. unfortunately it had to be used with my credit card, so i couldn't give it to him. fast forward to tonight, one coupon later, and we all feasted. in fact chris had an ultimate feast. seriously, that was the name of his entree.