Monday, May 5, 2008

May Day with a Bang!

The beginning of my time off has started this month. My last day of work was on May Day and as soon as I got off work it started with a bang. I had some eclectic selection of friends get together for wine at Hotel Biron, my favorite place, hidden between Gough & Market on Rose Street. It made me appreciate my eclectic selection of friends, all with their faults & critiques of life, coming various places in their lives at 20 years of age to 50 years of age. We had 2 bottles of Brunello, forgetting which year, and a few of us moved on to Zuni Cafe next store.

I got a phone call from my old roomie and her boyfriend who accompanied my friend who was still there from the wine bar. I had never been to Zuni Cafe but the owner of Hotel Biron worked in the kitchen their for 8 years and I hear about it because the staff from Zuni go over to Hotel Biron for a glass of wine after work. The food wasn't that impressive but they were certainly the best mojitos I ever with lots of fresh mint.

We split up but I decided to stay with my friend & her boyfriend. We drove around San Francisco to Twin Peaks, Noe Valley, and Diamond Heights until 4am the morning.

We watched Pink Floyd's The Wall which had too many war scenes for my preference. I came back to the East Bay the next day after being awake for too many hours.

I took my friend to 900 Grayson after all my partying shenanigans. I was recommended this place by my San Francisco Chocolate/Foodie buddy LikeThatLikeThat. It's located in West Berkeley and the food is delicious. Not to mention it's one of the few places where you can get a glass of White Bordeaux which is rare. They have an outside patio and everyone who works there is really friendly. Right now they are only open 8am - 3PM with a breakfast and brunch menu but they are working on being open for dinner.

I went to the best vegan BBQ ever yesterday. I highly recommend the Masala Veggie burgers from Trader Joe's. There was also potato salad, carrot cake cupcakes, bean salad, and it just didn't stop with the good food. I saw some people I hadn't seen in a long time who are busy working and such.

I look forward to discovering more of what my life is going to look like the next two months.

1 comments:

artnoose said...

Yeah, those Masala Burgers are good. We dumpstered some right around the time that Orange Kitty adopted our house, and I fed a little to her because we didn't have anything else for her to eat. She loved them. It's one of the few vegan foods she likes.