Our last day in San Francisco

For our last day we took a nice little rainy tour of the ton Berkley and the University of Cal Berkley. While in Berkley we had the chance to eat at a very famous restaurant called Chez Panisse. Chez Panisse was a nother restaurant that was big on local produce and organic produces. They made their own ice cream and own fruit soda. The set up of the restaurant was crazy. It used to be an old house and the way that Alice Waters set the place up to fit a restaurant was awesome. The kitchen was the best part of the entire restaurant but enough about the

restaurant and on to the food. For lunch I ordered a spicy carrot soup with cumin and mint to start off with, Grilled Soul Food Farm chicken breast with curly endive salad, roasted parsnips, and sage and for dessert a coconut ice cream with bittersweet chocolate sauce. To begin with we received a complementary sausage pizza that was to die for. It was one of the best pizzas I have ever had the chance to partake in eating. It blew every other slice of pizza I had in California out of the water. After having two tiny slices of the world’s best pizza my spicy carrot soup came. The carrot soup had the same texture as the artichoke soup but this time the soup had a taste. I enjoyed the soup but nowhere as much as I enjoyed the chicken. The chicken was amazing it looked almost like duck. The fat and skin was left on the beautifully prepared and well-cooked chicken and the endives and parsnips were a great add on. The little side salad was funky for lack of a better word, it was the weirdest tasting salad I have ever had to endure. After the main course came the highlight of the day, coconut ice cream. The home made ice cream was to die for and addition of a coconut cone was without a doubt the best part of the entire trip. The coconut cone was so sweet and sugary and crunchy that it topped any meal that I had in the bay area.

After consuming the the flavorful and delicious ice cream our next meal wasn’t for several more hours and several more inches of rainfall. We were on an adventure for dim sum, which I had been looking forward to for the whole trip. After failing twice to find a restaurant that served dim sum, we settled for a little Chinese restaurant in China Town.

The food was less than average to me. I ordered a nice big serving of wanton soup, fried rice and the chef’s special chei mein. The chei mein is better at PF Changs than it was at this little restaurant but I guess it’s the experience we paid for right? What experience that is I’m not quite sure but the food definitely wasn’t the best. The Wanton soup had too many vegetables cut up into it, so much that I could barely get a wanton onto my spoon, the steak, chicken and shrimp in my noodles didn’t taste like the majority of meats that I have had in my time and the friend rice was pretty good. I was more than disappointed by my last meal in San Francisco but I left with a full belly and that’s all I really wanted at that point.