Okay, the last food blog post about our SF trip, finally! It's been fun reminiscing about all that glorious food, hope it hasn't been to boring to read.
Saturday was our last day in SF, or should I say our last morning. We had an early afternoon flight but were being picked up by the airport shuttle mid-morning. We still had a culinary adventure ahead of us though, since we had done much of our packing the night before we had enough time to go out for breakfast. We walked to Dottie's True Blue Cafe, a small place on the edge of Union Square in the Tenderloin district. This is another of those SF restaurants that is notorious for it's around the block lines but we got there early enough that we were actually standing just outside the door on the sidewalk. It still took us about 20 minutes to get a table, but we had the time so didn't mind the relatively short wait and it was definitely worth the wait (and the weight!)
We ordered coffee for A. and a decaf latte for me and shared a pear toffee oat scone that was so fabulous! While the pear flavor was not very discernible, and the toffee pieces small and negligible, the scone itself was so good that I was actually glad that the other flavors weren't competing with it's whole grain oatiness.
We both ordered off of the specials menu, handwritten on a whiteboard hanging high up on the wall. A. got the zucchini bread French toast with pecans and maple syrup and a side of their own mild Italian sausage (a link that had been cut in half and flattened before cooking). The zucchini bread was a yeast bread, not a sweet quick bread and was cut in thick slabs. It was all very, very good. I ordered the Sweet Potato, Gruyere, caramelized onion tart which came with scrambled eggs, fruit and biscuits. The tart was amazing, a kind of free form crust with a light colored (not orange) filling which reminded me a bit of this potato gratin I make with Gruyere, butter and olive oil. Kind of like the best mashed potatoes ever, not sweet at all. The biscuits seemed to me like angel biscuits (baking powder and yeast) and were heavenly with butter and their raspberry jam. I gave A. the fruit since it had strawberries all over it and I'm allergic to them. I could eat less than half of what was served but enjoyed every bite and was so glad we decided at the last minute to go there. I wrapped one of the biscuits in a paper napkin to take with me on the airplane.
We left there and walked a bit around Union Square and took some pictures here and there including at the Chinatown Gate which was a couple blocks from our hotel. We went back to our hotel room for a bit, then checked out and waited for the airport shuttle. My intention in getting to the airport early was to eat lunch in the airport before the flight but we were still stuffed from breakfast so instead we got a couple iced decafs from Peet's (also picking up some bags of coffee beans to take home with us). Right before getting on our flight we bought a turkey sandwich at Peet's and took it on with us. By the time we were served drinks on the plane it was about 2:30 or so, and while we weren't all that hungry we split the sandwich since the turkey wasn't going to keep that long unrefrigerated. Our flight actually got in 45 minutes early but that time was eaten up by a delay with our luggage. It was twirling around a carousel marked Los Angeles, 5 carousel's down from us, while we all stood at the SF carousel waiting for almost an hour. When we finally got to our house that night we both had a bowl of cereal and went to bed, feeling that we probably did not need to eat again for at least another week. Thankfully with all the walking and hill climbing we didn't gain much weight from all that eating, but even if we had it would have been worth it for the delicious week we had.
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