We start with a blueberry scone from the Legion of Honor museum cafe. I did a mini museum tour of SF (that also included a stop at the de Young) to check out the cool exhibits that depicted art from the Impressionist era. Seeing all the wonderful works of art, a large number of which have made the journey here from the Musee d'Orsay in Paris) made me miss the City of Light quite a lot.
After all that museum-ing, you can sure work up a good appetite. And given all the feedback I've been given about this restaurant, Aziza, I had to try it sometime sooner rather than later. Plus, it has a Michelin Star.
It all started with some harissa pretzel rolls. Delicious.
Onward to the beet salad with an oat/pinenut (kinda sweet-granola-like thing) topping. Also delicious.
By this point, I'm feeling quite impressed. Then came the main dish: lamb. Lamb belly, lamb loin and lamb shoulder served with a bit of fennel/corn/mushroom mix and some sweet onion puree. This knocked my socks off.
Along with the main dish, we opted for a side of cous cous that also tasted amazing. I came away satisfied with everything I tasted and I can't wait to come back again (though Gitane needs to get tried sometime too).
I'm waiting to snag a pic of the oysters from the Tomales Bay bbq, but here we have a pic from the Palo Alto Obon, which we hit up afterwards. I got in touch with my inner Japanese by eating some teri chicken & beef (shown above), listening to some traditional music, playing some games and watching a kendo demo. Sadly, we attended a day too early to participate in the bon odori. Next yr...
Having seen a large quantity of "local" (HI) people at the Obon, we kinda got inspired to make some spam musubi. Thanks to Safeway's late opening hours for aiding in our quest.
We also bought ingredients for this French toast. The key here being the use of King's Hawaiian Sweet bread. Pretty damn good if I may say so.
And finally, a (late) sunday dinner of pan-fried chicken, broccoli and rice. Yum.
By the way, I'd be remiss if I forgot to mention (and thank) my guest for the weekend: Grant. Cheers man.
Not a bad way to send off the month of July. 2010 just keeps on trucking...
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