A personal blog detailing dining and eating experiences
Apparently the number pizza place in Manhattan.
Got a pepperoni pizza and a mozzarella sticks. The pizza was great (but won’t say is absolutely THE best). It is pretty light (crust is not too thick), cheese is good, and not too much sauce. Mozerella stick was pretty standard. I would come back again (but wouldn’t go out of my way). Also paired my dinner with a merlot (which also was pretty standard).
We stopped by here for lunch at Zadar.
I ordered the Penne Carbonara and added chicken, with a merlot to compliment it. Food and drink were great.
Went to this fancy restaurant for the first night I was in NYC.
From the starting bread, to the mushroom cheese pizza, to the steak, to the chocolate cake with chocolate mint ice cream, the food was really good. Also, the merlot went great with the food.
This Brazilian steakhouse had great food. The only one thing I will complain about is they definitely try to sneak in serving you alcohol (they handed us mimosas, which many people accepted because they thought it was part of the meal). They also handed us jumbo shrimp cocktail, where people also thought it was included.
For the meal itself, most of it was great (can’t remember which one I liked the best). One type of meat we did end up ordering was the dry aged tomahawk, which I remember tasted amazing.
We ended up pairing the dinner with some merlot, which was a great compliment.
Also, the salad bar had a good selection.
Lastly, since it was our birthday, they did give us a complimentary dessert (but definitely doesn’t cancel out all the other non-free things mentioned above).
I’ve been to the winary several times, and it’s a great place to bring people who are visiting San Francisco.
This time around I did not do the tour, but the tour is pretty interesting if you have not done it before.
For the wines, everything listed below is what I drank, except for the moscato. Instead, it was recommended that I try the La Fantasia. And I will admit, it was a good choice (and I actually grabbed a bottle. Also, the last chocolate (the red heart shaped one) goes really well with it since it is the sweetest chocolate. (As an aside, the free chocolates on the top left of the picture tasted really bad compared to the paid ones).
Also, an interesting piece of info is that if you don’t want to do the tasting, but you want to enter, you can pay $20 (instead of $30) if you “forget” your ID.
Got the lasagna. It was ok, but would not get it again.
For drinks, the old fashioned was pretty good. The merlot was alright.
The Sauvignon blanc was ok, but not as good as the Rutherford Ranch Proprietor’s Selection Sauvignon Blanc. The Province, a mix of 3 reds and 2 whites, was really good.
The Carnival is a “French colombard”, which is a sweet white wine (although it’s not super sweet). It’s alright, but a bit light (and not as thick as the Sauvignon blanc).
The merlot is pretty thick, but a bit of a “darker” taste. Cyrene says it’s very “peppery”.
The Cabernet Sauvignon, although the most expensive in the tasting, was not actually my favorite. It was the thickest, and “darkest”.
