Another Hotel Room, Another City

I've been told recently that I'm a bad blogger. In trying to remedy this, I am attempting a post post. You think I'm insane? Really I'm just adding a blog from the Fall AGU (that'd be American Geophysical Union) in San Francisco. And it's really not that late- we were there just last week. Pete's page has more information on this. This is our swank room on the 25th floor of the Argent hotel.

While we were there we spent some serious dough on the vast array of multicultural food selections in San Francisco. I have to say, we didn't make it to Teuscher, but that's okay as we still had two dark chocolate champagne truffles waiting for us upon our return to Boulder.

Let's start with the sushi. The quality of fish was spectacular at Nikko Nikko Sushi, however, I can't seem to find a link. I guess I should check my credit card bill. We also went to Mas Saki. This place was definitely more posh, totally a 20-something hang out. I would think it perfect for a classy night pre-clubbing. Totally swank. However, the rolls that they're known for- ehh- rolls. I like rolls, don't get me wrong, but big rolls, just make me feel like a puffer fish. I think I prefer ones that at least resemble the idea of bite-sized. And I do prefer nigiri when the quality is there, which I thought it was a little lacking for the Bay area. But, like I said, I'd go back. The atmosphere was awesome. Another cool thing is, say you forget or don't get a chance to eat before going to the SF airport. Well guess what? If you're flying United, at least for us, we had a sushi restaurant right at our gate (gate seventy-something). For airport food- it was great and not even that expensive. Ok so I only got the unagi bowl, but I was pleased as I thought all we'd be able to get would be a cold pre-prepared sandwich.

Hmm, what else. I suppose one other restaurant stands out: Mangarosa (although, I have to admit they're website leaves a bit to be desired. Why is it so small?). This brazilian-style restaurant somehow found it's place into the Italian sector, which was actually what we were going to eat, and is the only thinkable genre we seemed to miss during our 5-day trip. Although, I suppose we didn't eat American, but I don't consider that a significant loss. Anyway, mangarosa was quite pricey, but I had the "funnest" (yes, I'm going to use that here) dinner ever. It was called pumpkin and prawn risotto, but really that still gives you no idea of what you get. It was a baking pumpkin filled with a stew and a side of basmati rice. The stew was spicey and had 9, yes 9, large shrimp. My favorite was scraping the sides of the pumpkin. Pete also got it. Their calamari appetizer was also extremely tasty, the squid being so fresh.

As far as AGU, I'll put up a post later. ;)