Turtle Tower & Saigon Sandwich

I recently flew to San Francisco – one of my very favorite domestic cities - to attend the 2nd Annual Foodbuzz Fest (here’s last year’s write-up).  Follow along for the next two weeks as I recap my weekend trip!  Directly after the farewell brunch, I headed back to our hotel and settled out the bill, packed up again all neatly since I had to check my luggage – um, a big scary knife made an appearance in the swag bag – and then walked over to Turtle Tower.  Since the first time I went to Turtle Tower a year ago, I [...]

Second Annual Foodbuzz Blogger Festival – Tasting Pavilion

I recently flew to San Francisco – one of my very favorite domestic cities - to attend the 2nd Annual Foodbuzz Fest (here’s last year’s write-up).  Follow along for the next two weeks as I recap my weekend trip!  After the AM breakout sessions, I was dying to try the Alaskan seafood we’d seen demo’d but been unable to try.  It smelled fabulous – well, the halibut did, I Tweet’d my unhappy nose with the smelly salmon – so after Blondie and I walked to the Metreon, we walked straight to the back where they’d set up an area to make [...]

Second Annual Foodbuzz Blogger Festival – Welcome Reception & Street Food Fare

I recently flew to San Francisco – one of my very favorite domestic cities - to attend the 2nd Annual Foodbuzz Fest (here’s last year’s write-up).  Follow along for the next two weeks as I recap my weekend trip!  Rolling pork loins of my dreams… hello, Roli Roti.  Much like last year, Friday evening’s festivities included a welcome reception and street food fare… this time at Fort Mason in a giant (empty) warehouse.  Mission Minis once again greeted us with cupcakes everywhere.  I had one.  It was a cupcake.  Cheese platters at each numbered table for us to munch on… where [...]

Off the Grid – San Francisco

I recently flew to San Francisco – one of my very favorite domestic cities - to attend the 2nd Annual Foodbuzz Fest (here’s last year’s write-up).  Follow along for the next two weeks as I recap my weekend trip!  After I’d landed around 11am, Marc of No Recipes and I tried to connect via Twitter and text messaging to meet up for lunch.  Unfortunately, we wound up crossing wires somewhere, and instead I waited for Blondie of Blondie & Brownie, my roomie for the weekend, who quickly suggested hitting up Off the Grid, which was parked behind City Hall that day.  [...]

PPQ Dungeness Island

Directly following my trip to Peru, I left on a research trip to the West Coast for two weeks.  What was I researching?  Glad you asked: a book on Stadium Eats!  Um, yeah, without a deal in sight currently (hint, hint, anyone reading this who is interested!), I went to preemptively scout out the 6 West Coast stadiums and eat my way up and down the West Coast at the same time, starting in San Francisco, working my way down to Los Angeles, then San Diego, back up to San Francisco and then to Seattle!  Phew!  Tune in at 4:15 [...]

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