Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Breakfast: Esalen's banana-coconut bread. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. Continued maintenance for a student's laptop. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Content work in Drupal. Lunch at the JCC: chicken schnitzel sandwich with fries. Content meeting with Millo, Marissa, Jennifer, Susie, Eric, and Paula. Rode Muni bus 1 to downtown. For dinner I met Phil, Drew, Danny, and Romy at 750 Restaurant and Bar in the Hilton across from Portsmouth Square. Drew had identified 750 as a possible place for one of our regular dinners. I thought it was a casually elegant space, but it just wasn't the ambience we were seeking for a dinner. We instead dined at nearby Restaurant Ducroix and it turned out to be a delightful find. It's a small, charming French restaurant with excellent service and very good food. We ordered a few appetizers: french fries, vol au vent, and one or two others. For entrees, Romy had lamb shank, Phil had duck, Drew had salmon, Danny had a nicoise salad, I had sea bass with potato gratin and carrot puree. All the food was very good to excellent except I thought the chicken in the vol au vent was a tad on the tough side.