Anniversary Date

It was a beautiful "Indian summer" day in San Francisco yesterday.  Andrew and I decided to celebrate our "nine years of togetherness" anniversary by dining at one of San Francisco's Italian restaurants, Flour + Water.  We've been planning to try it for about a year now, and never got around to it.  Maybe because it's so hard to get a reservation or because walk-ins have to line up well before the restaurant opens to get a seat.  And we did just that.  We arrived 45 minutes early, first in line, and first to get seated.  Score!

Pack member Andrew notes that we have become food snobs since living in San Francisco and had high expectations for Flour + Water.  It didn't disappoint us.  Here is his review:

Hi folks, Andrew here....We started off with the "crispy trotter."  Crispy means fried, and trotter means pork, so it was bound to taste good.  It was a very nice dish, balanced, and the fried pork was about as delicate as fried pork can be.  We also got the Pizza "Pepe"--Pizza with peppers, tomatoes, basil, and cheese.  This is hard to screw up if the ingredients are good.  The ingredients were very good, so this was a very good pizza.  For our entrees, I got the beef cheek "radiatore" and Natalia got the sunchoke cappelletti with brown butter and sage.  The radiatore was excellent, it tasted like a jewish mother's beef brisket mixed with pasta, in a good way.  We liked it a little better than the cappelletti, but that was also a good dish.  It was subtle and grew on us more as we kept eating it.

{Crispy trotter with rabe, baby carrots, prunes & fig mostarda}

{Top: pepe pizza.  Middle (in the bowl): black pepper radiatore with beef cheeks - Andrew's.  Bottom: sunchoke cappelletti with brown butter & sage - Natalia's}

{We skipped desert and had Porto instead}

{Natalia's outfit: sweater by Urban Outfitters; jeans by Paige - similar here; shoes from Italy.  Andrew's outfit: his least-wrinkled shirt and the white pants he wanted to wear before Labor Day passed}

It was a good good delicious night!

Thanks for visiting!