For my birthday I got extremely spoiled. First up was dinner the weekend before my birthday at Alice Water's Chez Panisse Cafe restaurant. We were up at the University of California, Davis while my boy took a brewing class. On the way home on Saturday we stopped in Berkley to pick up a Spanish clay cooking pot (ours broke) and ended up trying to see if we could get into Chez Panisse. Well, after a 20minute wait we were in. The food while simple and made of local ingridents was just fabulous. So much flavor in a simple dish. I could taste almost all of the ingredients. We book had a nice night out.
Next, on my birthday (Wednesday) we headed to Absinthe. The Chef, Jamie, was on next top chef a season or two ago and for the last 5 years here in SF I have wanted to stop in. I made reservations, we pre-partied at our house and then headed down to this neighborhood restaruant. Again our meal was fabulous. Even my picky boy was happy!
