NOLA {Part 2}

On to the best part, the food of New Orleans. The food did not disappoint; although the hubs was mostly looking forward to a crawfish boil, but crawfish was not in season!

Our first night there was Christmas Eve, and we went to Borgne one of John Besh's restaurants. Borgne is Besh's coastal Louisiana cuisine restaurant. They had a reveillon menu to celebrate Christmas.




The hubs had the Crispy Boudin Balls -- Duck & Andouille Gumbo -- Black Drum -- Citrus Olive Oil Cake


I had the Duck Poppers -- Alligator Soup -- Whole Stuff Flounder -- Pot de Creme


On Christmas night we tried another John Besh restaurant, Domenica, his Italian restaurant inside the Roosevelt Hotel (featured here. We had a Meat&Cheese Board (the duck liver pate was amazeballs) -- Clam Pizza -- Stracci (oxtail + fried chicken livers) -- Tagliatelle (rabbit + porcini) -- Banana Zuppa Inglese. The appetizer and pizza was great; the pasta was way over salted (they ended up remaking the hubs' tagliatelle)

(see that big fluffy pillow dough on the top left corner, they were pretty amazing: its Domenica's savory version of a beignet fried in DUCK FAT. so yummy with the duck pate. anyway..moving on before i drool...)

I think I'll stop here for now and do one more post of the more casual foods we had.

Hakkasan

1 Kearny St * San Francisco, CA

It's been a while since I've done a restaurant review post. Since +Steve Nguyen brought up the fact that my blog has been lacking reviews, I thought this would be appropriate, as he treated us to a holiday luncheon at Hakkasan.

Hakkasan recently opened this San Francisco outpost on the 2nd floor of what looked like an all but abandoned building on the corner of Kearny and Market. I've seen a lot of posts and reviews lately about it even before it opened, so I was glad to get an opportunity to check it out.

You walk into a very chic and sophisticated dining room separated by interesting wood frames. The centerpiece of the restaurant is gorgeous bar.

We started off with a few dimsum items:

Clockwise, starting from top-left: King crab noodle roll; har gau; crab and taro croquette; daikon cake

The dimsum was all cooked nicely. My favorite was the crab/taro croquette. It was perfectly crispy on the outside and the taro was smooth and creamy inside. This is usually one of my favorite dimsum items to get, but the crab version made it more luxurious. My least favorite was the daikon cake, not sure if the ratio of rice flour and daikon was off, but it turned out alittle too mushy for my liking.

For our main course, we ordered the spicy prawns, black pepper rib-eye with merlot, and chicken fried rice with salted fish.

The dishes were all executed well. The prawns were cooked perfectly, not overcooked at all.

For dessert, we had a steamer full of macarons. I don't remember all the different flavors, but there was a blood orange, burnt caramel, jasmine tea, and yuzu. I thought the macarons were good and a good deal (7 for $12...many places around here charge close to $2 for a macaron)

Overall, I thought this was a great meal, with the prices, definitely not an everyday place. But they had great service and a wonderful ambiance.

Paws: 4

Weekend Happenings

Happy hump day!! The sun has been shining and warming up our house, maybe a little too warm. Here's a few photos to recap this past week.


FortMason & catch-up w/ the Lums (Koja Truck // Cupkates)


babysat the nieces on saturday (sleep when the baby sleeps)

That's it for now! Hope everyone finishes their week off well...it's off to oyster land this weekend!

Catching up...

A few images from the past few months, mostly phone pictures. Will hopefully begin updating this regularly (as i always say...)



per diem


in'n'out


dinner w/ the Lu's


Father's Day Beef Wellington


Napa Trip


Dinner w/ the Ahn's

Going to try and be better at this....

I'm probably one of the worst at keeping up with my blog, but here goes try #212392...forgive me?

some food photos from the year:


lobster @FullyBelly


Beef Wellington ala Christine


Banana Cream Pie @Nation's (thanks E.Dang!)


Caldo de Camaron @LosPericos

I'll be back to share more!!