that’s whacked

a weekend to digest

Monday, Aug 1. 2005  –  Category: Food, Musings

i consumed a ridiculous amount of food this weekend. it started out early saturday morning with wendy and i heading down to Fremont with val & jason to this great little Chinese restaurant (finchi cafe, i think?)… it’s next to the Lion Supermarket at Warm Springs & Mission. $8.95 all you can eat Chinese buffet breakfast. mmm…. rice porridge, and all that funky weird looking stuff that Chinese people eat for breakfast. and it was great

after that, we headed to the Gilroy Garlic Festival for even more eating. we had some crab aioli garlic fries, garlic fried alligator, garlic sausage sandwich, garlic ginger chicken stir fry, garlic mushrooms, garlic scampi, garlic bread, garlic ice cream, and about 5 cups of frozen lemonade cause it was so freaking hot out. after all these years of hearing about it, i’m glad we finally went… i was amazed at how well run the festival was. from the moment you see the “Garlic Festival - exit Madsen Ave.” sign on 101, there were people directing you in to the massive parking lot fields, and shuttling people onto buses to take them to the fairground. and at all the entrance/exit gates were people handing out free cups of water to try and beat back the heat. overall, i’m very impressed at how smooth all the organisation was.

after a long day in the sun, we had a stinky garlic-smelling car ride back to Oakland where we bbq’d some hot links up and dropped back a few beers.

on sunday, to celebrate wendy’s birthday, we went to Gary Danko in the city. wow! what an amazing restaurant. the food was brilliant. we each had a 4 course meal. best course for me? easily the foie gras… or maybe the seared ahi… but the loin of lamb was pretty damn good too. and the peaches flambe for dessert!!! wow. yeah, you get the picture. definitely highly highly recommended restaurant to go to if you’re looking for a great dining experience.