Miso chicken and saba shioyaki lunch combo – Wasabi Bistro

Miso chicken and saba shioyaki lunch combo - Wasabi Bistro
Served with rice, miso soup, and salad. $10.95
Wasabi Bistro, San Francisco CA

This was plenty of food for a lunch set, and decently priced too. I wasn’t a fan of the miso chicken – it was just grilled chicken slices with a miso glaze on top. The saba shioyaki (salt-grilled mackerel) was interesting. It was super crispy on the outside which was nice, but it was also way too salty! The interior was still moist and juicy though.

Side salad - Wasabi Bistro
Side salad.

Miso soup - Wasabi Bistro
Miso soup.

Chocolate mousse napoleon – Maven

Chocolate mousse napoleon - Maven
Creme fraiche and lemon ice cream, malt, brandy. Bloomspot 4-course chef’s tasting menu with cocktail pairings for two.
Maven, San Francisco CA

I liked this dessert because it tasted great, but it was really difficult to eat. The cookies were a bit too hard to break through so the chocolate mousse just kept oozing out every time you tried to cut into it. Hmm…

Maven's Milk Punch cocktail - Maven
Maven’s Milk Punch Cocktail: rum, Maven’s bourbon, vanilla, milk, hazelnut.

West coast oysters – Anchor & Hope

West coast oysters - Anchor & Hope
Lil’ Skookum WA, Fanny Bay BC, and Kumamoto WA. $17.50
Anchor & Hope, San Francisco CA

I met some co-workers out for happy hour at Anchor and Hope one day. The bar area was packed during that time of day, omg! I tried a few things, but by the time David arrived happy hour was over and we still wanted more oysters. We ordered a sampling of west coast oysters because we prefer the smaller sized variety from that area. I remember that they tasted pretty good, but they weren’t properly cleaned and there were a few shell shards in the half shell. Lame.