Let's start at the newly relocated Exploratorium. Home to a lovely array of scientific, interactive exhibits, they keep their doors open late a day or two during the week and on the first Thursday night of the month, host a party with some unique exhibits, entertainment, drinks and food. This elaborate, "popsicle-stick-like" model/sculpture depicts many of the famous sights in SF combined in one giant piece. See if you can pick out all the landmarks!
Josh visited from Portland and I met Brad in the City and we wandered the museum checking out some of the cool exhibits (it was super crowded) before deciding to grab a bite from the cafeteria style restaurant. On my plate: roasted fingerling potatoes, 1/4 rack of ribs, coleslaw and 1/2 a roast chicken. All quite delicious if I may say so.
This huge concave mirror shows you an enlarged image of what you see in front of you and even lends it some illusion of three-dimensions. Really cool.
Now that we've come into the summer months, it's the perfect time to enjoy food trucks in SF and no other gathering tops Friday night's "Off the Grid" at Fort Mason (where I previously took Kurt) where you can eat at over 30 different vendors! Took Josh there on his last night in SF and Brad, as a new SF resident, also came to experience his first "OTG". We kicked things off at "The Chairman". I've shown plenty of pics of their delicious bao so instead of another, I'll instead show this Miso Clam Chowder that I tried. Tasted great as a clam chowder, but I was just a tad disappointed to not really be able to discern the miso. Oh well, the bao still is the best food truck food I've had in SF to date.
Next up was Koja Kitchen where we got two of their "Kojas" (rice cake patty sandwiches), one kalbi style short rib and the other coconut glazed pork belly, along with the kamikaze fries (bulgogi & kimchee topped waffle fries). The pork belly was a new creation to me and it tasted very different and delicious.
As dessert, we opted to try Side Pony (a sandwich place) that had an amazing sounding PBJ creation: grilled peanut butter, blueberry jam and fried plantain sandwich. Pretty darn good with all the right kinds of flavors.
Not content to have attended OTG one week, I went up again the following week with Kevin (recently returned to the Bay) and a bunch of work friends for another round. In addition to more Chairman/Koja/etc, I tried Bok Ssam ("Korean comfort food") for the first time. This Korean fried chicken and waffle sandwich was pretty good (pictured) as was their Korean BBQ wrap (beef bulgogi, rice and lettuce in a rice wrapper with gochujang sauce; not pictured).
Stephanie braved the long line at Bacon Bacon to try this bacon fried chicken sandwich with a side of bacon topped fries. Very bacon-y and tasty in the savory and unhealthy manner you'd expect. Didn't get to have much more than a couple bites since we took the strategy of getting a large variety of foods and sharing a little bit of each.
Those of you who haven't checked out all the great eats up in the City (especially all the mobile ones), definitely head up there. If out-of-towners are feeling a bit hungry and want to come visit, I'd be happy to go up there with any of you too! Also, stay tuned for a recent outdoor adventure...post to come!
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