Monday, January 24, 2011

Cars & Coffee and Making my Tastebuds Happy


This weekend I went to Cars and Coffee in Irvine -- a weekly event the beau and I have been trying to be a part of...not only to see awesome hot rods, but maybe even Wayne Carini and his glorious moostacche.

The dilemma that delayed us from venturing to Cars and Coffee was that it's only from 6am-9am on Saturdays and we live in San Diego. Basically, we could never get our asses up early enough.

We managed to wake up at the crack of dawn this weekend and planned to stop by a couple food places while up north: Slaters 50/50 and El Taco, both in Anaheim.

Cars were creamy and food was A-mazing! Sadly, Carini's mustache went unseen.

Weekend Menu:

Slaters:

50/50 Burger (half ground beef, half bacon) with avo, a fried egg and chipotle mayo accompanied by sweet potato fries with pumpkin dipping sauce. If that wasn't awesome enough, we ended lunch with a Bacon Brownie --- that's right, cake like brownie with pieces of bacon baked into it. YUM!

El Taco:

Flautas with creamy guac and a burrito style quesadilla with their homemade salsa --- while this place is fast food like, it was simply flavor-awesomeness!

In between these two meals, we walked around Laguna Beach and played Frisbee by the wedge in Newport.

Perfect weather. Perfect Day.




Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Eating Our Way Through San Francisco!

So it's been a while! Happy New Year and hope the resolutions are going well.

I just got back from an Amazing trip to San Fran and Berkeley! The goal of this trip was to Shoot Pix, Eat, and Explore on foot (no cars allowed except public transit) and this post is about all the yummy food we had on our trip (pix too!). If you're planning a trip to SF or Berkeley soon, keep these places in mind for food!

Enjoy! My tummy sure did!
In no particular order ---


900 GRAYSON in Berkeley

BI-RITE Creamery -- Salted Caramel Ice Cream, San Fran



BOCCALONE -- Sausage and Provolone Sandwhich, San Fran

Cafe INTERMEZZO -- BLT + Avo and Thai Noodle Soup, Berkeley

CENTRAL CAFE - San Fran

DELFINO Pizza - Panna y Sausage, San Fran

YANK Sing -- Dim Sum, San Fran

PAPALOTE --- Shrimp Quesadilla, San Fran (btw, Bobby Flay did a throw down at this place)

TARTINE BAKERY -- Dessert!, San Fran

TARTINE BAKERY -- savory quiche, San Fran


CIAO for Now!