Twenty Five Lusk

Twenty Five Lusk is a new restaurant in SOMA that according to the Chef Dolan, in an Grub Street article interview, has been three years in the making to become "an approachable fine dining experience." I really enjoyed the dining experience. I have to say that the thing that I enjoyed more than the Scandinavian fire places, semi-private dining areas, the service that never allowed an empty glass of water on our table, was the Cauliflower Creme Brulee! Where had it been all my life? It was really delicious. You have to try it if you ever go there and you have to share it. I ordered one for myself and almost ate all of it. Leaving very little room for the rest of my meal. I will definitely go back to Twenty Five Lusk. If you want to learn more about others food experience, here some more Yelp reviews.  

A Simple Sunday Dinner

The last two weeks have been filled with many nights of eating out. Trying new restaurants and going back to some old favorites is always a fun food experience but sometimes you really want a home cooked meal. Tonight I was craving a healthy home cooked meal so I turned to my all time favorite easy meal - baked salmon. I can never ruin a salmon meal. It's just so tasty that you would really have to try hard to make it awful. I found a salmon with caramelized leeks recipe on All.Recipes.com that I have never tried before. To add some additional greens, I made this simple roasted Brussels sprouts. I cooked the salmon with the brussels sprouts at the same time in the oven at a lower temperature of 400 degrees. It took a bit longer than the recipe said it would but it tasted great. 

French Apple Tart

Every Thanksgiving we all gather at my aunt's place and she does pretty much all the cooking. I love to cook, so every year I eagerly volunteer to make something and my offer is usually kindly dismissed.  Last year, I was finally extended an invitation to make a side dish. This year my contribution was upgraded to making a dessert. I wanted to make a traditional Thanksgiving dessert but I've never made pies before and was worried about the outcome. A floppy dessert could have resulted in being demoted to making a salad next year. I found this French Apple Tart recipe on the Food Network and it was really easy to make. The taste results will be finalized next year when or if I get my invitation to cook a Thanksgiving dish.

Best Ribs in San Francisco @ Oola

Oola is one of my favorite SOMA restaurants and their baby back ribs dish is my all time, everywhere favorite ribs. I don't know what they put in that sauce, but it somehow tranquilizes me. It's the best prescription for a bad day. One bite into the tender ribs and all that has bothered me is forgotten and forgiven. If you are having an extra bad day order the Parmesan truffle fries as well. This combination will put a smile on any rib lover's face.

Flour + Water = Amazing Rich Chocolate Dessert

Last Tuesday I went to Flour + Water. 1 hour wait for a table + 4 lovely ladies + 2 bottles of wine + 2 slices of  calabrese pizza + a few bites of strozzapreti pasta + many bites of the amazing pumpkin tortellini + profusely licking the spoon that fed me the chocolate budino with expresso-caramel cream & sea salt = the evening left me with a big smile and a new dessert obsession with the chocolate budino with expresso-caremel cream & sea salt.

Greens Restaurant

Last Sunday night I tried Greens Restaurant for the first time. As the name suggests, everything is vegetarian. Even though most of my lunches are vegetarian and filling, I still have this misconception of vegetarian food as not being filling. Because of this, I checked the menu before I went to dinner and picked the most filling dish I could spot. I chose the the stuff squash -the Ronde Nice Squash Provencal.  Thinking if it is stuffed, it must be filling too..Right? It was definitely stuffed but not as full of flavor as I expected. However, I loved the polenta. I recently tried to cook polenta and learned that it is not as simple to make as it appears. This experience left me with an appreciation for good made polenta. The salad and entree were both very fresh and simple. The dessert was the best. We ordered an upside down cake and these amazing profiteroles. One of them was stuffed with Carmel ice cream and tasted just like the amazing Salted Carmel ice cream at Bi-Rite Creamery.  It was a really nice, healthy dinner and thanks to Black Board Eats 30% discount  the meal came to a good price as well.