San Francisco and what to do in it

hey i just wanted to put in a recommendation for the hotel i was at -- hotel carlton @ sutter & larkin ('tender nob' lol). great rates ($89-109/night) for a smallish king room w/ walk-in closet, friendly staff, would stay again.

<3 u SF, miss u already

Did you peek in at the restaurant, Saha?

I had breakfast at the Saha when I stayed at the Carlton. It was terrible, but I doubt that says anything about the restaurant.

Props to the Carlton from me too. Only bad thing was that the wi-fi was extremely slow.

I haven't been to Saha in a while but it was a pretty cool place to get a decent Arab dinner cheapish before going to shows at the GAMH.

didn't even get to saha -- i didn't really give it a chance tbh, was too eager to go 'out' and eat

Frances is absolutely as great as everyone was touting it to be. Wow.

i kinda want to try this Frances place now. maybe after a month of employment.

Steve, I have good news for you.

Hehe, actually knew about that. I get a discount there but it's still pretty pricy imo. shrug.gif

Good meat, good cheese, good wine...

The only thing that ever really tempts me into Bi-Rite is their ham selection... I can find better seafood, beef, chicken elsewhere for less.... but their hammmmmmmmm ugh.

I had their soft-serve ice cream this weekend. It was ridiculous.

4 reals? i tried a sample and it was non-ridiculously equal to their other ice cream (NB: cold night, i'm not huge on ice cream). MWhite, do you know if the Bi-Rite will have ice cream (to compete with the new Humphrey Slocum outpost in Faletti/Dellesio)?

4 reals. I love soft-serve though and it was the salted caramel flavor. I think a soup version of that might be great.

yeah the salted caramel soft-serve is dope. the line of hipsters waiting for their scoops of honey lavender and ginger brown sugar while the soft-serve window is walk-right-up = pathetic and anti-summer imo

MWhite, do you know if the Bi-Rite will have ice cream (to compete with the new Humphrey Slocum outpost in Faletti/Dellesio)?

I don't. Other competition is 3 Twins on Fillmore.

Honey Lavender ice cream sounds awesome right now. My sister and I made some in the south of France one summer.

"while the soft-serve window is walk-right-up = pathetic and anti-summer imo"

Yeah it's crazy. The line is around the block when you can just get your soft-serve in seconds.

disgusting savages

not that I don't take M. White's point, but it's one thing to crave the honey lavender and another to just turn up your nose at soft serve.

I turn my nose up at waiting in line.

Not really feeling the Humphrey Slocombe love. I like trying new flavours but the few I've tried haven't actually tasted that great, including something basic like apple sorbet. Haven't tried the coffee one though, and I should because I <3 coffee ice cream. They had a limoncello one that was awesome as well. But I'll go for Bi-Rite every time. (I have tubs of salted caramel and honey lavender in my freezer right now!)

Booked a meal at Range for my anniversary, anyone been?

well then stop by the soft serve window on Sunday for salted caramel

i have got to get there on a Tuesday for the spicy mexican chocolate...

and maybe tonight for balsamic strawberry

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It's been a while but I liked Range.

Btw, the cardamom ice cream at 3 Twins is delicious.

i'm not generally super-excited about humphry slocombe but i'll stan for their ancho chocolate 4vr

M have you tried Bombay Creamery?

Nope. Where?

humphrey slocumbe coffee = vietnamese ca phe iirc. blue bottle as well iirc. pretty f'n epic iirc.

i love VN coffee tho, ymmv.

but i'll stan for their ancho chocolate 4vr

I'm definitely going to try this

You can get pints of the regular non-soft-serve ice cream at the soft serve counter so if you are super craving Honey Lavender you're still good.

I probably eat less than a pint of ice cream per year.

Almost all of my lactose intake is in the form (ha ha - etymological joke) of cheese.

valencia between 16th and 17th

rosewater, rose petal, sesame, cardamom, fig, etc etc...

http://www.yelp.com/biz/bombay-ice-creamery-san-francisco

Hmm, that sounds familiar.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2509/3715674961_31a9cf94bf.jpg

Keep meaning to go there! I'll make a trip tomorrow.

btw if i could get my ice cream intake down to m. white levels i'd be a fitness model today ;_;

Next door is an Indian grocery, right?

yep. they're affiliated.

Bombay is good.

ahhh remember those heady days when Valencia was not a torn-up war zone.... seems so long ago....

Want no lines? Head down to Mr and Mrs Miscellaneous in the Dogpatch. That is some yummy ice cream!

I was there last weekend! Forced to choose between Maker's Mark ice cream and Anchor Steam ice cream. So cruel.

the ice cream at bombay is pretty good. we have hundreds of ice cream places in berkeley and I eat way more than I should, I feel kind of spoiled on this treat, but still haven't made it to bi-rite. three twins is great though, in fact, getting some today at the farmer's market.

i had some of that yummy bombay ice cream on the very hot day of bay to breakers 2009

you gotta go to bi-rite, come on.

stop posting and get outside you crazy indoor people.

gonna be in sonoma county for three days in august for a big family wedding, but then after that i've got two full days (16th & 17th) to fart around in the greater bay area doing whatever i want. thinkin i'm interested in some outdoorsy day-date activities for two, like i dunno renting kayaks and kayaking around, or renting bikes and biking around? or hang-gliding, do people still hang-glide? if anyone's got any suggestions, that would be cool, thanks!

There is some great kayaking to be done in Tomales Bay which is western Sonoma County. It's seawater but a really long inlet so it's pretty well-protected/sea-walled. Maybe the Russian River from Healdsburg to Jenner?

There's great biking of all types to be done everywhere.

Hang-gliding: gotta go to the glider port in La Jolla dawgg.