Tartine Bakery

On Friday morning before we met up with all of the other girls to head back to Napa for the weekend, John, Angie and I walked from our hotel to the Ferry Building to get our morning coffee. Afterwards, we weren’t that hungry and decided to go on a walk to Tartine Bakery (and we’d get a cab when we got tired). Funnily enough, we didn’t get tired at all and managed to walk the entire three miles from The Ferry Building to Tartine Bakery. It was worth the walk because we definitely ordered one of everything they had.

The lines are kind of long but it moves very quickly – while we were waiting to place our order, I snapped some photos of their beautiful cakes, tarts and croissants:

If I lived in San Francisco, I would definitely buy all of my cakes there:

Lemon cream tarts!:

Look at the huge pile fresh raspberries on the tart:

Delicious morning buns and tea cakes:

Savory options:

Our haul:

Hazelnut tart that had chocolate ganache and was so good that we wanted to go back and buy another:

Fresh lemon tart:

A banana tart that had such a great flaky crust (that wasn’t too sweet, either!):

The best chocolate croissant that had two lines of chocolate, one more than usual!:

Our only disappointment of the day, the morning bun (although I think if we ate it there, it would’ve been better):

And a ham and cheese croissant:

Worth a trip to pick up pastries, cakes, savories, ANYTHING. They have great desserts and their coffee is great, too!!

The Inn at Meadowood

Our dinner at the Inn at Meadowood was really wonderful – Angie, John and I did the tasting menu that included a lot of fun dishes (including our first amuse bouche, a small puffed pocket that resembled a Totino pizza roll). We had a great view of the golf course, fun conversation (including awkward pauses when our dishes arrived because we thought the waiters were listening in on our conversations…and possibly hitting on John). The dishes:

Vegetables from their garden:

They presented these dishes on books that were written about the vegetables from the Meadowood garden:

These were kale with saffron:

Fresh carrot bread bonbons:

Pumpernickel macarons:

Our first official course was whipped yogurt with pickled plum shiso:

A close up of the shiso leaves:

Aji cured in green tomato, artichoke, almond:

Potatoes cooked in beeswax, assorted sorrels (my favorite):

Sour pasta borage, geoduck, clam, dills:

A fun presentation of day lily, lobster and caviar:

Their delicious homemade rolls with sea salt:

Cod, peas, mustard and spring onions:

A closeup of the spring onions:

Bouillon of roasted meats (pre-Bouillon):

Chicken whelk, turnip green, juniper:

John being plated the cote de boeuf, morels in kasu, dried oyster nettles:

More delicious bread:

Cheddar, malt, caramel, broccoli and brown butter:

Transitioning to the sweeter fare with the koji sorbet, unripe apricots:

And the most delicious dessert I have EVER tasted, the chocolate cherry tart:

The chocolate tart close-up:

We finished with a candy dish filled with candies (where everything was edible, including the wrappers that were made of gold and silver and the plastic-looking wraps!)

Afterwards, we did a tour of the open kitchen and complimented the chefs on their taste in music (because it was a combo of easy listening and hip hop. The chefs all take turns playing their iPods):

I really loved all of the dishes, especially because they were mostly light and had multiple variations of fish and only one serving of heavy meat. The dessert was amazing (I’m still thinking about it!) and we had such a fun time together. One thing I loved about Meadowood was all of their plates – I asked if we could buy them somewhere but they’re made by someone locally specifically for the restaurant from clay that’s found in the area. I loved all of it and wished they sold it at the restaurant!

San Francisco with John and Angie

For my bachelorette party, Angie and the bridesmaids planned a really wonderful weekend for me in San Francisco. Angie, John and I arrived on Thursday morning so we could spend a little more time together before the other ladies arrived from New York, Chicago and San Francisco. Laura even upgraded me on the flight from New York to San Francisco so the flight there was really wonderful (with breakfast, lunch and so many snacks!) Our flights arrived about an hour apart and I met up with John and Angie while they were waiting for the rental car, so the timing worked out well. As soon as we got into the car, we found the first In-N-Out we could find (right next to the airport!) and ordered animal style cheeseburgers, a strawberry shake, and fries:

John arranged for us to stay in San Francisco and Angie made a dinner reservation for us at The Inn at Meadowood:

The Inn at Meadowood is a beautiful resort with a very lush golf course and a newly remodeled restaurant. One of the reasons I wanted to dine there is because it’s the only other Michelin three-star restaurant in California (The French Laundry is the other). I wanted to see what it was like so Angie and John agreed to dine there with me:

We had a really fun dinner there and then drove back to San Francisco afterwards to spend the night together in the city! On Friday morning, we walked to the Ferry Building, got coffee at Blue Bottle, then walked to Tartine Bakery, which was a 4 mile walk (but we needed it because we ordered one of everything when we got there!) After our breakfast adventure, we met up with all of the other girls at Teresa’s apartment and then drove to Oxbow market to pick up cheese and cupcakes for the weekend:

Oxbow has a lot of different vendors and restaurants and an outdoor seating area, too:

We bought a bunch of cupcakes from Kara’s Cupcakes:

And then settled into our amazing bed and breakfast that David and Laura recommended, the Oleander. This week: more photos from our dinner at Meadowood, breakfast at Tartine, bachelorette pictures and more!

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We’re Married!

Ken and I have had an amazing summer filled with so much fun: soon after my birthday, my dad arrived from Taiwan, David and Laura got married, and then Ken and I got married three weeks later. We just got back from our honeymoon and now I finally have time to download all of the photos from June and July to post here! We’ve had such a fun summer and are definitely enjoying married life now. Here are a few shots from the wedding – I will be posting photos from my bachelorette party (in Napa!), David and Laura’s wedding (in New York!), our wedding (in Chicago!), and our honeymoon (in Amalfi, Positano, Sorrento, Paris, Bordeaux, Barcelona and Madrid!)

For now, a few photos from our wedding:

The beautiful bridal party:

All of my gorgeous bridesmaids:

More later this week!