restaurant outing tomorrow - any pointers?

Her Subj. wrote:
yesterday night i split every plate. mind you it is a tapas-style
place. the service is deplorable, but the food was excellent:

the speck
escarole
pork cheeks (amazing!)
market fish (from the wood burning oven)
artichokes with ricotta
strawberry rhubarb tart
ice cream

a lot of food?


not for a special outing, no. it all seems mostly healthy, too.


i also went to la brea bakery and bought a pain rustique...and ate
about half of it since last night.

why are you upset? if it's just a normal bakery loaf of bread then
that's not a big deal. that's 24 hours, not one sitting, and bakery
bread is really at it's best for a day or two.

Sara,

Thank you for making me feel not-so-bad about my consumption last
night. It was definitely rich food (esp. the pork cheeks), but very
good. I forgot to mention I had table bread with their harissa spread,
which was unbelievable! Look at the pictures that accompany this review
for a feel of the richness of the food...

I am obsessed with fresh bakery bread and I consume it like crazy. The
La Brea Bakery Pain Rustique loaf was about 2lbs in weight. Oof.

My food this morning is as follows:

2 Okinawan sweet potatoes (beautiful dark purple interior!)
1.5 cup of Nature's Path "Optimum Recovery" cereal (this is a new,
rather tasty cereal!)
~3oz of pain rustique with various spreads: grilled veggie tapenade,
homemade strawberry jam, and red pepper tapenade (yes, very strange mix
of sweet and savory)
~1/2 cup of cranberry trail mix
1/2 baby banana

in the afternoon: 2 bites of tofu, 150 calories worth of potato chips

i didn't have much throughout the rest of the day because i was
extremely full from the morning, and i also think i ate way too much
than i really needed to, considering i was still full from the night of
feeding before.

i am at 140lbs now, +5lbs from a few months ago. i really need to start
actively monitoring my consumption. but i can't resist food...i feel
like i have to eat all of it or it will be taken away from me, even
though i know it won't...i feel as though my "carnal" instincts are
getting the better of me. Ugh.

HS

wrote:
Her Subj. wrote:
yesterday night i split every plate. mind you it is a tapas-style
place. the service is deplorable, but the food was excellent:

the speck
escarole
pork cheeks (amazing!)
market fish (from the wood burning oven)
artichokes with ricotta
strawberry rhubarb tart
ice cream

a lot of food?


not for a special outing, no. it all seems mostly healthy, too.


i also went to la brea bakery and bought a pain rustique...and ate
about half of it since last night.

why are you upset? if it's just a normal bakery loaf of bread then
that's not a big deal. that's 24 hours, not one sitting, and bakery
bread is really at it's best for a day or two.

woops, here's that review:

http://dailygluttony.blogspot.com/20...atter-aoc.html

woops, here's that review:

http://dailygluttony.blogspot.com/20...atter-aoc.html

Her Subj. wrote:
woops, here's that review:


http://dailygluttony.blogspot.com/20...atter-aoc.html


Sounds great! And $40 a person isn't that much for a great meal.

I love the La Brea bread cookbook, btw.

Martha
who loves Acme Bread here is SF, on par with La Brea

Oh, the meal was very good! I don't like going to restaurants with
menus that I can replicate myself at home. I don't mind spending a few
bucks on food that would take me a whole day to prepare.

Have you luck with the La Brea cookbook? My starter died! And yes, I am
familiar with Acme in SF...it is a bread lover's institution!

Black Metal Martha wrote:
Her Subj. wrote:
woops, here's that review:



http://dailygluttony.blogspot.com/20...atter-aoc.html


Sounds great! And $40 a person isn't that much for a great meal.

I love the La Brea bread cookbook, btw.

Martha
who loves Acme Bread here is SF, on par with La Brea

The La Brea book is my second favorite baking book (second to Baking
With Julia). I have hundreds of cookbooks, collecting is a passion of
mine.

Sorry to hear about your starter. I've often thought about getting one
started, but I'm afraid it would create alien life forms in the back of
my fridge.

Martha


Her Subj. wrote:
Oh, the meal was very good! I don't like going to restaurants with
menus that I can replicate myself at home. I don't mind spending a
few
bucks on food that would take me a whole day to prepare.

Have you luck with the La Brea cookbook? My starter died! And yes, I
am
familiar with Acme in SF...it is a bread lover's institution!

Black Metal Martha wrote:
Her Subj. wrote:
woops, here's that review:




http://dailygluttony.blogspot.com/20...atter-aoc.html


Sounds great! And $40 a person isn't that much for a great meal.

I love the La Brea bread cookbook, btw.

Martha
who loves Acme Bread here is SF, on par with La Brea

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Her Subj. wrote:
woops, here's that review:


http://dailygluttony.blogspot.com/20...atter-aoc.html


Sounds great! And $40 a person isn't that much for a great meal.


For a "good" meal that doesn't include any wine, $40 is at the high end.
For a great meal, it's downright cheap.
--
the volleyballchick

Nunya B. wrote:
"Black Metal Martha" wrote in message
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Her Subj. wrote:
woops, here's that review:



http://dailygluttony.blogspot.com/20...atter-aoc.html


Sounds great! And $40 a person isn't that much for a great meal.


For a "good" meal that doesn't include any wine, $40 is at the high
end.
For a great meal, it's downright cheap.


Exactly. And for all those plates, that's not bad at all. I went to a
company dinner that was spectacular this week and fortunately, I didn't
have to pay for it. It was around $40 per entree. But, the lamb chops
were the best I've ever had. If I could afford it, I'd go there again.
(Forbes Island: touristy, but amazingly good.)

Dining in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area isn't cheap.
"Cheap" restaurants would be most anything under $20 per person
including everything. "Mid-range" would be around $20-50 and
"Expensive" is above.

Martha

Nothing on the menu even sounds remotely like food. I hope you took
your anti-trendy-neo-popculture-Britney-Spears-ate-here-pill before you
left home.

Whatever happened to pulled pork BBQ and baked beans anyway?

sheesh.

chula
who prefers real food