San Francisco Treat

The wife and I headed to San Francisco for a little weekend getaway/food feast. On our trip we managed to try as much food as possible and the following highlighted our culinary itinerary:

Jai Yun - 12 Course prefix chef's selection dinner for 2 @ the $80.00/pp level. We had a restaurants.com $75 dollar voucher to make this meal a steal.

Mama's on Washington Sq - French toast sampler (amazing in-house bread), dungeness crab omlette with avocado's and Brie

R & G Lounge - Crispy salt and pepper dungeness crabs

Leland Tea Comany - Cream Tea: (organic chai) two scones, double devon cream and fruit!

The Slanted Door - Modern Vietnamese focusing on local and ecological farmed meat and produce. We had their Crispy Imperial Rolls, dungeness crab cellophane noodles, shaking beef (filet mignon), meyer lemon meringue tart and blood orange sorbet with thai basil sauce.

The Little Skillet - Fried chicken and waffles

Ferry plaza farmers market - Cow girl creamery / Boccalone Salumeria / Hog Island / Blue Bottle Coffee / Il Cane Rosso / Out the door / Acme Bread / Far west fungi /

Chez Panisse Cafe - Alice Waters famed restaurant - Pizzetta, sea bass tare tare, pork leg, chicken paillard, squid, lime sherbet, pink lady apple and sour cherry tart, and caramel cream puffs.

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Ippudo + Minca updates

Update: 1/26/2010

I was able to get into Ippudo as a walk in single at the bar, with no wait. I promptly sat down and got to business and ordered a Sapporo, Hirata Buns (Pork) , and the Shiromaru Hakata Classic Ramen. Overall the bun's lacked the finesse of Momofuku's buns, and the classic ramen was good, great broth and nice textured noodles however over priced at $14 dollars with only a small portion of their simmered berkshire pork (you can get an additional serving for $4 dollars). Overall good quality but you are mostly paying for the atmosphere.

Update: 3/7/2010

We decided to hit up Minca again (no wait) for some ramen and to order their Toroniku Ramen (slow cooked pork belly with fresh cabbage) along with their basic (pork) broth and thick noodles, as it was sold out the last time we visited. I must say that it was the best bowl of ramen I have had in NY hands down. It is one of their more expensive items on the menu at $14 dollars but the portion was overwhelming, with a large bowl of soup, noodles and approximately 2-3 large pieces of melt-in-your-mouth pork belly. A must try if you want to get the best ramen in the city.