Friday, August 25, 2017
Breakfast at home: Nona Lim ramen noodles with beef broth from a jar of bouillon, baby bok choy, chives, garlic, ginger, mushrooms; 1 pint of water. Rode Uber Pool home. Sprint standup wherein Susie announced that she is making a run to Arsicault Bakery, having wanted to try their croissants for a very long time. The bakery opened in 2016 and received Bon Appetit's best new bakery of 2016, and it's only a 10-minute walk from our workplace. She soon returned with croissants for everyone. Mine was ham and cheese, and it was the best croissant I had ever eaten. It's extremely butter; my fingers were quite greasy when I was done. The flavors, crispness, airiness, and pillowyness are all perfect. Identity retheme work: mostly print styles. A small web update for Lucia in the curriculum course listings. Lunch from The View Cafe: one pork bun, two pieces of dim sum. Rode Uber Pool to the Castro. Got my reading glasses adjusted so that they are less tight around the temples. Rode Uber Pool to a bar called Benjamin Cooper, which is very small, with decor that is subtlely steampunk-western. When I arrived at 6 pm there were only a handful of empty seats. Drew and Phil arrived around 6:30 pm. We had one round of drinks. Afterwards we walked to Hotel Nikko for dinner in the lounge at Anzu from the Summer of Love menu. Danny met us there a little after we were seated. Three-course meal with wine pairing for Phil: oysters rockefeller (oyster & spinach baked in a half shell, the original Rockefeller sauce; paired with Taittinger, NV, Brut, Champagne, France), boneless rainbow trout (almandine butter sauce, English peas, saffron jasmine rice; paired with Domaine de Triennes, 2016 Rose, Provence, France), bananas foster (banana sautéed in rum with vanilla ice cream; paired with Eldorado 12 year old dark rum); two-course meal for Drew: melon and prosciutto with basil granité, chicken cutlets cordon bleu (pomme de terre macaire (crispy mashed potato cake), French beans); Danny canceled Phil's order of udon noodles for him and instead ordered The Rock; two-course meal for me: melon and prosciutto with basil granité, boneless rainbow trout (almandine butter sauce, English peas, saffron jasmine rice). Rode Uber Pool home.