What I Did On My Vacation Relaxed by the pool Used the Turkish baths Had frozen tropical drinks while lying in the sun Swam laps Sweated in the sauna Lounged in the steam room Received my first Thai massage Got a deep tissue massage Enjoyed a Turkish Rub and Scrub Luxuriated in a shower with [...]
Date Night @ Marlowe
Date night last night at Marlowe in San Francisco. I like the environment, like a combo of industrial and old wood, and the music (a sucker for the Dirty Dancing soundtrack). “Snacks” may have been the best part: the famous brussels sprout chips were crispy, tasty, a little oily… The peaches with burrata and “smoke” [...]
Commonwealth
Caught the tasting menu at Commonwealth and shared a wine tasting. Not inexpensive, but interesting, modern and enjoyable. Amuse was a delicate sashimi-like dish… cocktail an odd liquid-nitrogen frozen sake combination which was intriguing but less a drink and more a granita. Tasting menu featured lots of offal (e,g. sweetbreads, my favorite). Would go again, [...]
Avoiding Three (Self-Induced) Interviewing Pitfalls
…that I needed a kick in the butt to get out of. A few months back, I left a great job because it just wasn’t a fit for me anymore. I took some time to rest up, and then to explore what was going on out there to figure out what I really wanted to [...]
I Was A Startup Weekend Virgin
Bay Area Startup Weekend Mobile was July 23-25. I signed up for it long before, but when it finally rolled around, I was completely exhausted after stressful week. I told myself I would go at least to see the pitches, and if I wasn’t interested in any of the ideas, then maybe I would skip [...]
Top Chef: Cold War (with a side trip to cJ’s Miami)
Also known as “the claws come out.” Miami Detour As soon as I saw that Michelle Bernstein was going to be the guest judge on this episode of Top Chef, I knew there could be some tension since both Michelle and Andrea are chefs in Miami. Andrea starts the day in a “good place” but [...]
Top Chef: Catch-Up Edition
I’m back from my technology hiatus and have now watched each of the three episodes I haven’t recapped at least two times each. I guess that’s what happens when I deprive myself… I go overboard to catch up (just ask my weight which knows what happens when I skip meals or diet — DOH!). But [...]
Unplugged
Remember when MTV started this new show called “So-and-so Unplugged” that featured our favorite artists performing their normally wired hits acoustically? You might need to think back to a time when MTV was actually music television. But anyway, I remember it as a revelation of how great music could sound back to basics, even when [...]
Ippuku is a Little Piece of Japan in Berkeley
I am so happy right now. Really. I just ate dinner at Ippuku for the first time, and I am so happy that a true yakitori restaurant has landed right here in my town. Ippuku feels like a little piece of Japan transplanted into Berkeley. Everything from the entryway to the seating (in-floor recessed seating [...]
Top Chef DC: School Lunch
We’re back for the second week of Top Chef DC and as I watch the opening montage, I’m thinking, I didn’t even notice some of these people last time. Like Andrea from Talula in Miami Beach — hey, I used to eat there too! It is a White House themed episode with a “bi-partisan” sandwich [...]