Lunch at the Cliff House

Baby Spinach & Arugula Salad - Grilled peaches, Burrata cheese, Almonds, Poppy seed vinaigrette

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Dungeness Crab Cakes - Sweet corn relish, Cilantro aioli

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Wild Mushroom Frittata - Sundried tomatoes, Basil parmesan fingerling potatoes, Mixed baby greens

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Fresh Local Rock Cod - Panzanella salad, Heirloom tomatoes, Pain de mie croutons, Yellow pepper coulis, Black olive tapenade

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Grilled Sea Scallops - String bean salad, Sweet chili aioli, Crispy ginger

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Frozen Lemon Souffle - Fresh blueberries, Aged balsamic, Lemon Curd, Citrus Shortbread, Fresh ground black pepper

Late-night Snack: Katanaya

Katsu Don

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Uni-Ikura Don

Megalunch - Cafe Centro and Ike's

Salad Nicoise

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Blueberry Italian Soda and Lemonade

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Funky Fusion Chips

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 MILF, Ex-Boyfriend

Santorini

Pita and Olive Oil

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Pomegranate Chicken

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Gyro Platter

Curry and Macarons

Katsu Curry from Muracci's

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Macarons from Paulette (Earl Grey/Jasmine and Pistachio)

Shanghai Dumpling King: Crab Meat Soup Dumplings

Hooker's Caramels

Izakaya Sozai

Kitchen Kura

 

Octopus, radish, and green onion pancake

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 Beef tongue with lime and green onion

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Nanban chicken with garlic sauce

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 Taro milk tea.

Saigon Sandwich, Birite, and Tartine

 

Roasted pork bahn mi

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Nicoise tombo tuna with saffron aioli, olive tapenade and 

summer heirloom tomatoes on a Semifreddi’s ciabatta roll

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Tres Leches cake and Frangipane tart.

Off the Grid (Fort Mason)

For some terrible reason, Off the Grid, or a Friday night gathering of some of San Francisco's most sought after food trucks, takes place in the northern shores of the city. The small circle of trucks, much like Conestoga wagon circles of yore, hardly protected the throng of people within from the piercing cold winds and gathering mist without. Some strange polka-ish melody of the same couple of notes seemed to repeat over and over again, accented with bellowing foghorns. As evening fell, the queues took anywhere from half an hour to an hour to complete. Luckily, the food was delicious. After meeting failure at the San Francisco Street food festival, we revisited Kung Fu Taco and triumphantly came away with duck tacos with mango salsa. The duck was savory and good, and worth the relatively short wait, but seemingly something you could assemble yourself with the right ingredients. On top of it's mixture of Mexican and Asian food, the truck was confusingly also peddling macarons from Oui Oui Macaron, but never to turn one of those down, we both got blueberry and chocolate with green tea buttercream. They were incredibly fresh, with the perfect texture of smooth buttercream and delicate and chewy cookie. And then came the ordeal. Splitting up, Rosie went to Seoul on Wheels and Cheney aimed for Chairman Bao, the lines of both snaking across the entire area. Rosie waited in line for half an hour for a  beef "Sammy" that was had flavorfully marinated bulgogi in Vietnamese banh mi style. Cheney waited for a whopping hour to get steamed pork belly with pickled daikon and pulled pork buns that seemed inspired by Momofuku. She was sorely tempted to get one of the shaved ice drinks as well, but by that time it was bitterly cold. In fact, once she got the precious buns, we retreated to the most confusingly arranged and overpriced Safeway we'd ever been in so she could finish eating them, and we could get materials to make basil gimlets. The pork belly pretty much justified the ridiculous wait time with it's obscenely good combination of crispy meat and soft pillowy dough. It has now become Rosie's mission to hunt down the truck in SOMA in order to get one of her own.