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The New Krung Thai Restaurant has great chicken Satay, and Pad Thai. The Thai iced tea uses shaved ice, so if you let it melt, it's kinda like a shake.

The food portions are huge. I didn't have room for dessert.

The ambience is low light with candle light. It's a great place to go out on a date, and then afterwards head over to Santana Row for drinks.

I'm going to go again.

The New Krung Thai Restaurant
580 N. Winchester Boulevard
San Jose, CA 95128

I went to downtown San Jose yesterday to drop my pal, Dersh, at the San Jose Museum of Art.




Dersh thought the salad she ordered was great. It even had an orchid on it, and I had the lemoned chicken. It was deelish.

The server asked me how I was which was pretty professional. We got our food pretty quickly during a lunch hour.

In Baltimore, there's the Brewer's Art that everyone else knows about.



Then there's the Brewer's Art that's a secret.

If you're looking for highly experimental beer, then try their "Resurrection." It's made with yeast that's been killed and then brought back to life with lots of sugar.

Also, the salads and pizzas are excellent.

I had the proscuitto, duck endive salad with thin slices of toasted peanuts, and three thousand plus miles later on the west coast, I'm still thinking of it.

Recipe for "Turkey Meatball Munster Curry"

- Your favorite Curry Sauce in a jar (Whole Foods or Trader Joes)
- Add curry sauce and meatballs to sauce pan cook on low heat
- Chop to your preferrence and relative proportions: red bell peppers, onions, tomatoes, cilantro, garlic
- Sautee above in olive oil
- Once sautee is reduced where ingredients are slightly carmelized ADD to sauce pan with turkey meatballs and curry sauce
- Add cubes of munster cheese and cook all ingredients on low heat for about 2 minutes where cheese is still in cube form
- Once on the plate add fresh cilantro on top



Happy 4th!

At around sixish I got a call from my pal, Marjorie. She said, "I'll be there in 15 minutes." There's nothing like getting a ride from Cole Valley to Potrero Hill when you need to get there, because you can bet your ass, and a cold one at that, that you'll be waiting for quite a while for the 22.

I asked Marjorie who she was hoping to meet at the Click.TV party, a Vloggercon related event:

I'm contemplating diving into the world of video blogging, so I'm off to this year's VloggerCon.


Anybody else going?

Mayor Jerry Brown's plan to throw in 10,000 new Oakland Residents into the downtown area bears fruit every 1st Friday of the month. That's when art mongers go to various cafes and galleries to see art, and that art is a great way to kick off a new month.



The last Friday was no exception.

I checked out art at Ego Park, the Mama Buzz Cafe, the Esteban Sabar Gallery, and the Front Gallery. There was some art along Broadway, too:

I was doing some work in Laurel Heights this afternoon, and after work I had a total hankering for some comfort food.

If you're looking for the best Macaroni & Cheese in town look no further than Rigolo's on 3465 California & Laurel.


A divine combination:
Macaroni, Creamy Gruyere Cheese Sauce, Proscuitto, Truffle Oil

Oh my gods, oh my gods, The Mac'n Cheese has: lots of creamy and thick gruyere. Tender, savory pieces of proscuitto, and your macaroni was also bathed lavishly in truffle oil. It is simply the best mac'n cheese in San Francisco & dare I say it, "The world!"

$8.95 gets you a bowl of mac'n cheese that left me sated.

Rigolo's
3465 California & Laurel
(415) 876-7777
www.rigolocafe.com
Monday - Saturday 7am - 9pm
Sunday 8 am - 9 pm

Cafe Mondo on 602 Mission Street and 2nd Street is just a hop away from right after work hotspots like 111 Minna.

I had the manicotti special. It's not real, Italian manicotti, but it hits the spot for just under $8. Don't let the square of cheese melted on top deter you.

Where is the best manicotti in San Francisco?

After shopping with Devon McClive for art supplies at Urban Ore (yelp), I worked up quite an appetite and so had a hankerin' for a good breakfast.

The art supplies purchased came out to $14.07, which ain't bad for an art project inspired by Calder (wikipedia).


An early hanging mobile by Calder


Parasite by Calder

The Rockridge Cafe jumps with the hustle and bustle of breakfast eaters, even at around 2pm. I had the spinach, goat cheese, bacon omelette, which used to be a special, but was ordered so much that it's now part of the regular menu. Having this dish is worth the trip to the East Bay alone!

Urban Ore
900 Murray Street @ Ashby
Berkeley, CA 94710
Mon-Sat: 8:30 am- 7:00 pm
Sun: 10:00 am- 7:00 pm
Receiving closes everyday at 5:00 pm

The Rockridge Cafe
5492 College Avenue
Oakland, CA 94618
(510) 653-1567
http://www.rockridgecafe.com/
Open Daily, 7 Days a Week from 730am - 3pm

Medjool on 2522 Mission street and 21st street is probably the best place to catch the sunset in the Mission.



You can sit on their deck, keep warm with their heat lamps, and enjoy drinks made to order.

This Saturday for a friend's 32nd birthday, (Hi, Evie!) I got to enjoy:

• pita bread with hummus and tabouli
  
  
• shrimp with spicy chutney
  
• spinach salad with bacon bits
  
• a Hendrick's Martini with a slice of cucumber
  
• lamb meatballs
  
• lemony dolmas with rice cooked in a chicken broth
  

The food's fabulous, and the view of the Mission is great, too.


credit: flickr://eye-uh

Where are you getting your drink on, today?

I just love this speech by Mario Savio that goes like this:


We have an autocracy which runs this university. It's managed. We asked the following: if President Kerr actually tried to get something more liberal out of the Regents in his telephone conversation, why didn't he make some public statement to that effect? And the answer we received -- from a well-meaning liberal -- was the following: He said, "Would you ever imagine the manager of a firm making a statement publicly in opposition to his board of directors?" That's the answer! Now, I ask you to consider: if this is a firm, and if the Board of Regents are the board of directors, and if President Kerr in fact is the manager, then I'll tell you something: the faculty are a bunch of employees, and we're the raw material! But we're a bunch of raw material[s] that don't mean to have any process upon us, don't mean to be made into any product, don't mean to end up being bought by some clients of the University, be they the government, be they industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone! We're human beings!
[Applause]

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!

You can listen to this speech, if you've got Real Player.

I was at the Lucky 13, yesterday, on the advice of Adam Perry, drummer for The Love X Nowhere. Adam recommended the Lucky 13 a few blog posts ago, and so far it's my top pick.

$2.50 pints of beer until 8pm.

2140 Market St
San Francisco, CA 94114-1319
(415) 487-1313
Cross Street: Church Street


Any other suggestions?

Sushi Bay serves up Bento Boxes for pretty cheap. Here's a comparison between Sushi Bay's traditional Bento Box and Sawaii Sushi's Bento Box match up.

                 Salad Stuff Rice Chicken Miso Sushi Extras Price

Sushi Bay            x        x       x                x    $5.50 

Sawaii Sushi         x        x       x     x    x          $6.95

Sushi Bay's traditional bento box is really good but you don't get Sawaii's extras, miso soup and a California roll. Sushi Bay's traditional bento box came with a few other extras: pickled bean sprouts, savory tofu, tempura shrimp, chicken katsu (breaded and fried), an orange slice.


Sushi Bay
355 Kearny St
San Francisco, CA 94108

After the SF Web Innovators' Mixer at Adaptive Path, I went over with Anthony Baker of Think Big Ideas to 21st Amendment on 2nd Street and South Park.



I ordered a half glass of Mac's Scotch Ale and boy, did I get a buzz going! The fish and chips were great, and came with a salad - a pretty good deal if you ask me.