As part of the weekend’s birthday celebrations, we took the recommendation of the probably overly touristy restaurant, The Stinking Rose. Maybe the best restaurant name of all time, part of the lure, the other part being that it’s a garlic themed restaurant. Yes, please! When in Rome, we started with their roasted garlic infused oil,…
Tag: California
Flour + Water, San Francisco
If there’s one thing that will have me setting a 1AM alarm, it’s the phrase “pasta tasting menu.” At the acclaimed Flour + Water, they offer just that, and even more so a special one to commemorate 15 years, with each course one of their “greatest hits.” If a reservation could be scored, this would…
Hotel G- San Francisco
Hotel G certainly has some good marketing, website, and Instagram activity. The Geary Street establishment masquerades as a boutique hotel with some fun hipstery/design touches in the rooms. Reality was a bit bleaker as the drafty, older hotel, squeaks with every step to the bathroom (great for blocking out the adjoining room’s tv) which can’t…
One65- San Francisco
Special birthdays require special desserts and what could be better than a few gorgeous creations from the Michelin starred One65? Answer: nothing. Elegantly delivered to an average locale, these creations convinced even the biggest non-chocoholic (moi) that this makes for an excellent birthday celebration. At $13 each and a wee DoorDash delivery, elegance and indulgence…
S.O.P.A.
Palm Springs. Land of breath taking landscapes, gaggles of gay guys, and some fairly stuck of bachelorette parties. A lot of them. Very glad to check that off the bucket list, but not an experience that I need to quickly repeat. Well, unless it’s for a stay and a meal or two at the restaurant,…
V Hotel Palm Springs
I had the Ace hotel booked for Palm Springs, again based on friends’ recccos, despite hating the one in NYC. However, Just before arriving, I cancelled and decided to try the new V Hotel Palm Springs. For $90 a night, what could really go wrong? It just opened in March, so probably at least not…
CazabonÂ
After an atomically awful personal week coupled with a shite storm of a work week, my trip to California could not have arrived at a more perfect crossroads. With meetings in San Diego next week, I decided to spend the weekend prior in Palm Springs, having heard amazing things from friends with travel tastes I…
Viceroy Santa Monica
The long work week/weekend had finally come to an end! I was elated. A last minute major deal tossed into an already slammed early morning and late night schedule was not what the doctor ordered. The moment I finished work, I hauled arse to check out, into an Uber and was off to the stunning…
Cowboy Appetite at The Ranch
The last evening of our exhausting, Disney-ccentric convention brought a group dinner at The Ranch in Orange, CA. The Ranch is an upscale restaurant that looks like your fancy father’s den that has been decorated by your mom. If that makes sense. The team is predominately European and the blokes from the UK were thrilled…