Perennial crops constantly grow and can live for years. Most crops, however, are short-lived; therefore, they need to be replanted after every harvesting cycle.
For the 2014 Gourmet Walk's wintertime holiday dinner, we gathered at a restaurant just off Market Street that is popular with our Chocolate Tour fans.
Owner Pim Techamuanvivit and chef Michael Grimes serve up authentic Thai dishes made with seasonal produce and sustainably raised or caught meats. They are unafraid to experiment with flavors unfamiliar to the American palate and with varying levels of heat.
Zuni Café, an iconic San Francisco dining establishment, has menu items that are so beloved that they have been a staple on the menu since the restaurant's opening in 1979. Inside of this narrow building on the busy Market Street corridor, it is surprisingly easy to find intimacy in the labyrinth of rooms inside.
For a very special birthday dinner, I got to eat some of the best Mediterranean fare in the city, which consisted of fresh seafood, local produce, flakey phyllo dough, and of course, baklava ice cream.
In the heart of downtown San Francisco, my fellow tour guides for Gourmet Walks got together for another delicious and memorable staff meeting.
While the dishes typify that found in the Piedmonte region of Northern Italy, the cuisine of Perbacco embodies the best of California cuisine because the food is prepared in such a way that the ingredients shine.
NM did keep the beautiful rotunda and stained glass dome. Today, lucky diners can sit around the rotunda and eat a meal full of robust flavors and history.
What could be more Bay Area than The Plant Café? Both casual and upscale, this café serves food with sustainable, local, and organic ingredients, the majority of which are plant based.