Sons and Daughters of Bush and Powell Street

If you haven’t been to this restaurant and you like the sort of French style multiple courses tasting dinner this is number one in my book.   The ambience is relaxing for the most part however, you occasionally get someone talking as though their hearing aid was turned off.  We had someone like that behind us but the food and the service overwhelmed any negative I could bring up.  The food, OMG, the food was delightfully spectacular.  Every course was absolutely delicious and unique.  The presentation was colorful, with purpose and meaningful structure that needed sufficient adoration and interpretation before extracting the first bite.  Taking your time to let every taste bud in your month get a sampling is an understatement to say the least.  It’s not our once a week or once a month restaurant but it is acceptably priced. The service was excellent, exceptionally attentive.  Every course received a new and complete set of utensils and the chef sent out three special dishes to fill in the time between courses which was completely unexpected and unnecessary in my opinion however it did incentivize me to generously tip.   Five of five stars from me.  Visit this colorful and brief web site.

Sons and Daughters

Make Room on the Planet!

Something Nice!

I have heard the phrase that many Americans are “morbidly obese” and even though healthcare costs continue to rise, people are not changing their eating habits. Thousands of people are falling ill to diabetes, high blood pressure, and any number of related heart problems that are deceases attributed directly to being overweight. Fast food businesses continue to show huge profits, why is that? Having time on my hands to ponder worldly problems like this, I believe I have a solution for making more room on the planet. My idea is to require every person that falls into the “morbidly obese” category to lose enough weight (not original I know) and to bring their body fat index down to a medical industry recognizable and healthy level. This in turn will reduce the diameter of most humans affecting the space occupied by every person. In turn we all get a little more elbow room you might say.   There are many benefits for being a healthier, smaller, or more narrow (physically I mean) person whichever description is politically correct. Consider other problems like the short list below that can be solved too:

• Eating less means less trash and garbage in landfills (Environmentalist happier)
• Less water is used when the body is smaller/thinner (Water conservationist happier)
• Comfortable seating/standing for all on public transportation (Traveling public happier)
• Airlines can compress seating space (like they haven’t already) (Airline industry happier)
• Lower fuel costs due to lower transported weight (Shipping costs lower, car owners happier too)
• Fewer sheep have to be sheared for the garment industry (the sheep will be warmer)
• Most people will be able to fit in smart cars (Global warming alarmist happier)
• Fewer swayback horses (Animal rights advocates and PETA people happier)
• Fewer  back injuries (Everyone happier, pharmaceutical firms unhappy)
• More cops that can catch the criminals (Taxpayers happier)
• Fewer broken office chairs (Facility’s asset management happier)
• More food for the rest of us. (starving people fed)
• Etc.

The result is harmony in the World!

Hungry in the morning? Try SEARS!

No not the catalog store!  After riding the trolley from Beach Street to Market and Second Street, I walked up to Powell Street and had breakfast at the SEARS restaurant.   The food was good as well as the friendly conversation.  My waitress’ name was Carol and she has waited tables at SEARS for 22 years. SEARS is one of the landmarks in downtown San Francisco that was established 1938.   A friend recommended it to me.  Have breakfast on the way to the office or before you hit the streets exploring.  I had a veggie omelet but the person next to had hot oatmeal with a mountain of the freshest strawberries that I have every seen and on top of that another and separate bowl of strawberries and blackberries, I mean to tell you the one bowl would have been enough for me. 

August 26, 2010