Joe's Ice Cream

5420 Geary Blvd
San Francisco, CA 9412

Occasion: Nice little dessert after dinner at PPQ!  07.29.12

Green Tea Ice Cream

Their ice cream is not only super delicious, but their portions are also very generous.  I've had my fair share of green tea ice cream from different ice cream shops and I can honestly say that this place has some legit stuff.  It's creamy, it tastes like green tea and it's perfectly sweet.  Love at first lick!!!

PPQ Dungeness Island Vietnamese Cuisine

2332 Clement Street
San Francisco, CA 94121

Occasion: Double dinner date for some crab! 07.29.12

Peppercorn Crab

My favorite between the two different preparations of crab.  It's deep fried, dry and not too messy to eat.  It's absolutely packed with a peppercorn spice.  

Seabass 

The meat is so soft that it seriously melts in your mouth.  There's a great combination of sweet and savory.  This is so good.  Though this is not their signature dish nor is it what they're known for, this is one dish that is definitely worth a try.

Roasted Crab 

It's soaked in garlic and butter and it's delicious, but it can get messy.  And if you know me, I'm not a big fan of messy!  Though I'd like for it to be more garlicy, it's still good in my books.

Garlic Noodle

How do you have crab without garlic noodles.  You can't!  Perfect pairing with some crab meat! I don't think their garlic noodles are the best, since I like it loaded with garlic flavor, which this place kind of lacks in.

Kara's Cupcake

3249 Scott Street
San Francisco, CA 94123

Occasion: Cupcake delivery from Phil!! Thanks! 07.28.12

Passionfruit Cupcake

Vanilla Cupcake filled with passionfruit filling and topped with Vanilla buttercream frosting

This is probably my favorite flavor here! I love the tangy yet sweet filling with it's light buttcream frosting.  It's sweet, it's delicious and it's very light.  Perfect little afternoon snack and perfect little dessert.

Brenda's French Soul Food

652 Polk St
San Francisco, CA 94102

Occasion: Brunch for 4 over great conversation and delicious food.  This is one of our favorite brunch places in the city!! You need to try their watermelon iced teas (comes with free refills). 07.21.12

Banana Foster French Toast 

Super decadant, filling and delicious.  They're very generous with the portions here and it's definitely more than enough for four of us girls to share.

Beignet Flight Plain, Chocolate, Apple and Crawfish 

Since the other three have never been here before, we all decided to get the flight.  I've never tried anything other than their crawfish beignet because it's probably my favorite thing to get there! After trying it for my first time, I've ordered it every time ever since.  It was a good change to get a variety to share with everyone.  The plain one is simple, but still good.  The apple was surprisingly really good and reminded me of apple pie.  Chocolate was way too rich and was able to have a bite of that.  The cheesy stuffed crawfish beignet did not disappoint and is still my favorite

Catfish Poboy 

Just mediocre and did not stand out that much. Perhaps I was really full already.

Chaya

132 The Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA 9410

Occasion: Double date brunch with my big sis! 07.22.2012

Sunday Angus Beef Burger 

Fried farm egg, bacon, avocado, grilled onion, lettuce, tomato, spicy aioli with blue cheese

Not only did it look amazing, I had also overheard some lady near me raving about the burger.  I don't usually order something so heavy and rich as my first meal, but the fat girl inside of me just had to order it!  The meat was juicy and the bun was slightly toasted. I love the idea of having all these ingredients in a burger, but it was just too sloppy to eat.  It's hard to keep everything together and enjoy everything all in one bite without the burger falling apart.  I've never been a big fan of eating with my hands especially for messy burgers, therefore I appreciate food that can be easily enjoyed with a fork and knife.  It was a very rich and filling entree especially with their fries on the side.  I was only able to finish half of this, but it was so good!