SF Foodbuzz Food Bloggers Fest – Outstanding in the Field (dinner on Saturday)

click to enlargeHere’s the big one!  The dinner everyone wants to hear about… Outstanding in the Field, a giant warehouse, and a billion (okay, not a BILLION, but a lot) of food bloggers.  You’re going to have to ignore my awful photographs and look at someone else who probably has way better pictures, because cold warehouse + poor lighting + jabbering away + wine refills + plus plus plus… let’s just say my photographs leave something to be desired, mm’k?  I watched them prep these awesome bowls of soup – mushroom dashi, maitake, shimeji and enoki mushrooms.  Very sweet and [...]

SF Foodbuzz Food Bloggers Fest – Tasting Pavilion (Saturday afternoon)

Also on Saturday, happening around the sparkling wine session I attended, was the Afternoon Tasting Pavilion at the Metreon.  I didn’t take too many pictures for whatever reason, and don’t remember the names of everything, either.  I just know I picked up a ton of swag and lugged it around for the better part of the afternoon… which translates to a great workout!  And more prizes to be given away on the blog eventually.  Ha.  Some sort of ceviche that I recall being yummy.  Mezzetta’s booth had these awesome basil-strawberry martinis.  Pretty yummy.  I wrote about Mezzetta once a very [...]

SF Foodbuzz Food Bloggers Fest – Cheese & Sparkling Wine Sessions (Saturday)

As part of the Foodbuzz Food Bloggers Festival, we were asked to sign up for informational/tasting sessions for Saturday’s festivities.  I immediately signed up for CHEESE – Cowgirl Creamery – and sparkling wine.  Good thing, too, because I later heard that they filled up so quickly, a lot of people were forced to take the other sessions!  (Of course, the other sessions had swag, but I was happy with my choices!) The morning cheese tasting session… See the woman in the white coat?  She kind of reminded me of the cheesemonger on Sex and the City, in that long ago [...]

SF Foodbuzz Food Bloggers Fest – Welcome Reception & Taste of SF Street Food Fare

This post is woefully out of order in terms of pictures, but I’m trying to pretend like I ate a normal amount in a normally-paced sort-of meal that first night at Foodbuzz Fest, even though I totally didn’t… the first night of the fest was reserved for the welcome reception, where most people mingled and met many new faces, and the Taste of SF Street Food Fare.  (Please note: I did not mingle and meet new faces.  Instead, I saw some NY food bloggers and basically hung out with them the entire weekend, meeting only a few new people, really.  [...]