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Bay Area Dining Group #1 - Pacific Catch

While sipping some good wine and eating an average yet over priced steak, a few friends of mine, the girl, and I talked about starting a dining club. Simply a group of people that get together every week or so and go to a restaurant. We are going to try to vary the price range and type of food. And yes if you were to take the name above and make it an acronym it would be B.A.D.G - yes we are bad.

First place to try was Pacific Catch in the marina. We started off a few doors down at yuzu
while we waited for one of the only tables in the very small very crowded pacific catch. I hear the food at yuzu is not that exciting, though I have not tried it. Yuzu did have something going for it, they were having a special on one of my favorite beers - Hitachino nest red rice ale. They also had the white ale which is very good and then i braved one i had never heard of called Koshihikari Echigo Beer. I actually didn't like this one at all. Strong rice flavor with kind of a coors light aftertaste. Oh well - our table was ready at pacific catch and so i downed the beer.

We ordered a few different items. There were crisp and nicely salted sweet potato fries that were surprisingly good. The warm edamame with sea salt was better then most Japanese places in town that i have been too. Fresh, flavorful, and with plenty of sea salt. Oh and not wet with cooking water like you sometimes find. After that most of us ordered wasabi bowls. A big bowl of seaweed, daikon, rice, ginger, wasabi and most importantly pieces of ahi, ahi poke, or grilled eel. This is some straight forward food and rather cheap. If it was off the mark you would know, but they hit on pretty much everything. Yeah it isn't easy to get a table and the place is a mad house but damn i can't wait to go back.

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Eat local or i will beat you up

The girl writes passionately about eating local. It's not just for good quality fresh food anymore. The point is to create a more sustainable earth that isn't going to explode in a few years. Unfortunately, this includes being careful even at the farmer's market.

At the SF ferry building market - some farmers drive 2 or more hours to get there. Is this really local. I still want to support them but we need to keep all of this in mind. There is lots of great produce close to SF that we can buy.