San Francisco ... Quince

So this post is not going to feature my food, but it is going to feature some things that will probably be remade at some point in the future.  Before I get to that though ... I have to give a shout out to the Hotel Adagio in San Francisco ... very awesome and at $200 a great deal for an Autograph Collection hotel in a major city.

We started the night at the bar in the hotel ...

I have to admit that the desire to go to this bar was partially due to the $10 platinum credit, but mostly do to the sweet mustache/monocole logo.  After this we were off to North Beach and our eventual destination ... Quince.

The dinner was good, but not great ... that said there were a couple of fun things that I may be incorporating into dinners in the near future.

The black glass to kick off the dinner was an awesome touch.  Especially the fact that it was loaded with Sancerre.  Yep, I have 8 of them at the house so this is totally coming to a dinner soon.

This one was fun, sweet shrimp with an avocado puree.  Yep, I can totally make that.

This was probably my favorite course but the one that I am least likely to be able to make due to Shell's dislike of one of the main ingredients ... CAVIAR.  Served with an oyster and a champagne foam this was awesome.

The final course I am throwing up here tonight was a ridiculously awesome pasta course ... suckling pig tortellini with black truffle slices!  I am not sure where I am going to find a suckling pig, but I do know that Shells will be making pasta sometime soon.

Tomorrow night I get to eat my upteenth restaurant meal for a show night, but I'll be back for a post Sunday night before heading back out on the road.