We're in California for the summer continues...
Last night I took BART into San Franicsco to have dinner with my friend Sarah.
Whenever I go into San Francisco (or anywhere) I always look up the address on Google Maps so I know where to go. I also often look at the satellite photos to get an idea of what it looks like. But now they have "street view" which actually shows you what it looks like from the pedestrian point of view. So yesterday I knew what my destination looked like, instead of walking too far down the street, trying to read the numbers on the buildings, etc.. We are living in the future. Amazing.
I'm always looking for a new, posh restaurant for us to try and discovered that there is an Asia de Cuba in San Francisco. John and I loved the one in Los Angeles and ate there every night when we stayed at The Mondrian Hotel a few months ago.
The San Francisco Asia de Cuba is in the Clift Hotel which looks gorgeous from the lobby, although I found the design to be a little dark. Dark as in not enough light. The restaurant is also gorgeous and the food once again was incredible.
The waiters start every sentence with "the portions are very large" which, frankly, we found annoying. Why do the portions need to be so large? Why can't they have normal portions? I ended up getting two starters which were fabulous but were almost too much food. Sarah got the lobster in curry sauce and said it was amazing. We got a little freaked out at the presentation when they put a little bucket (with a handle) with the lobster in it.
The service was super excellent and even though there was a lot of food we decided to be very bad and have dessert. Again. Well, the waiter described the desserts as enormous, huge, large and very big, so we had trouble deciding. We ended up getting a concoction called "The Bay of Pigs" and this mountain of stuff arrived that was truly terrifying. It had carmelized bananas, vanilla and chocolate ice cream, whipped cream, brownies and so much other stuff that I can't even remember. It was the size of a basketball. I'm serious. The woman at the next table took at photo of us which didn't turn out very well but you can get the idea. What you can't see in the photograph is that on the other side of the carbs sticking up out of the top is another mound of stuff, making one gigantic mound of stuff. We barely put a dent in it before I felt way too full and had to stop. I should have had the sorbet. Lesson learned.
It's always so fun to spend time with Sarah and I'm really excited that we will be moving only 15 minutes away from her so we'll be able to get together more often. Like, at my pool. Yay!
