Monday, October 5, 2009

October 2009: 6 Year Anniversary

Six years we have been at this. Six fun filled years of cooking, eating, drinking, talking, laughing and making fun of Bonnie. Some have left and some will hopefully be back. Others have joined. And we keep going strong, with more ideas and endless possibilities for our little cooking club. I’m still holding out for Oprah and maybe even an exotic getaway cooking club one year. Italy girls? One can dream.

In honor of our happy anniversary and keeping with tradition, we opted to dine out for the big day in the big city.

We went to RN74 for dinner. We were all excited to try the award winning chef Michael Mina’s new restaurant in SF. The atmosphere was simple and elegant. I liked the touches of red.

Cheers to us.

For firsts, we started out with the Slow Roasted Beet salad........
Prawns........
Ravioli's. We also ordered the Hamachi Sashimi, not pictured.

For seconds, a couple of us had the Halibut.

Some had the Grilled Prime Beef.
Janet had the Sea Scallops.
And here is what Bonnie had. Chickpeas and Romano Beans. This is why we make fun of her. Here are the Chickpeas with some sausage for the table. Much better.
We talked. Told funny stories.
And of course, had dessert.
Walnut Bread Pudding.
Warm Pumkin Beignets. We also got the Frozen Chocolate Souffle, no picutre of this one.
We had a wonderful time and it was great that we almost had everyone together. We were missing Hiedi.

While we had a great time, I think the consensus was that the meal left us a little underwhelmed. The food was good, nothing really impressed us all that much. Especially with this being a Mina restaurant. I think most of us agreed that we would probably not go back. The service was also sub par. And that was too bad.

Girls, please leave a commet for your take.

After dinner some of us headed out for drinks at a new bar/club - Eve. Where they made a very tasty French 75. Ashley, also had a great drink. We encounter strange service here as well.

As always it was great time.

Happy Anniversary, Cooking Club!

Posted by at

2 comments:

  1. The GVZsOctober 6, 2009 at 8:16 PM

    Excellent recap, Angela. I agree with you on all accounts. I think for me it was underwhelming because there was nothing really that SPECIAL about any of the dishes. The scallops were really good, but I have had really good scallops before. I wanted to have something unique and surprising. I also found all of the dishes we had to be very similar in ingredients and taste. Lots of thyme. Which, while tasty, can be a little bland. The company more than made up for it, though!

    ReplyDelete
  2. BonnieOctober 6, 2009 at 8:27 PM

    Excellent post!
    I loved the beet/peach salad with the dijon dressing and chopped almonds. The wine menu on the wall that flipped was pretty cool. Decent parking. Nice bathrooms. I agree with Ang & Gil-not impressed at all. And for some reason I suggested this place and all I ate was a peach, beet, chickpeas, and romano beans?

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)