Funky Lil Kitchen = FAIL

If you have nothing good to say, you shouldn’t say it. But, you can write it on a blog.

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Reading, Pennsylvania: Canal Street Pub & Restaurant

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Udupi Palace

I was able to experience my first Southern Indian food! At Udupi Palace, a restaurant named after the city in South India notorious for the vegetarian cuisine, I ordered the Channa Batura. The channa part is the spicy chick pea curry and the batura (sometimes spelled different, like bhatoora) is a puffy fried yogurt bread. The bread was soft, chewy, sour and paired perfectly with the heat from the curried beans. Win.

Udupi Palace
1007 Valencia St
San Francisco, CA 94110-2405
(415) 970-8000

Bi-Rite Creamery

Bi-Rite Creamery is:

• the ice cream shop to the amazing Bi-Rite Market
• organic and local ingredients
• cups and spoons are biodegradable
• tastes done with silver spoons
• made of Strauss Family Dairy
• rarely more than 5 ingredients (nothing artificial)
• daily changing, creative flavors
• delicious

Clockwise from top left: Vanilla Lavender (honey and lavender freshly gathered from nearby Mint Hill), Salted Caramel, Coffee Toffee (made with local Ritual coffee beans), and Creme Fraiche. All were outstanding, but I fell in love with the Creme Fraiche. Yum.

Bi-Rite Creamery
3692 18th St, San Francisco, CA‎
(415) 626-5600‎

Bombay Ice Creamery

Cardamon Ice Cream.

A spice that is used in both savory and sweet dishes results into a warm, inviting, subtly spicy, and nicely sweet ice cream flavor. Yum. Check out their many other unique flavors too! Like Saffron, Rose, Falooda, and Kesar Pista.

Bombay Ice Creamery
552 Valencia St
(between 16th St & 17th St)
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 861-3995

Panchitas

I was recently in San Francisco and was able to eat at some delicious restaurants. Over the next few posts, I will share my dining experiences.

The first restaurant my friend and I ate at was the Salvadorian Mexican restaurant, Panchitas (No. 2). I have only had Salvadorian a few times before in my life, but this little gem reminded me that I should have it more often.

Of course, Salvadorian Suprema Beer. A pale lager. Delicious!

Pupusa De Chicharron Con Queso (Pupusa with pork meat and cheese) AND Pupusa De Queso Y Loroco (Cheese pupusa). Mmm… pupusas. Cheese and just about anything is good in my book.

Platanos Con Crema (Plantain with cream). This was my favorite! I could eat this everyday. Yummy!

Yuca Con Chicharron (Yucca root with pork meat) - Mmmm, yucca root! I prefer them over potatoes.

Panchitas No. 2
3091 16th Street
San Francisco 94110
(415) 431-4232

Blue Plate

This past week my boyfriend and I went out for dinner at the always satisfying restaurant Blue Plate. It has become a safety restaurant for us. It’s not too expensive, it’s not too far, and it’s not a Mexican restaurant. This tiny little nook on Montana raises the bar for comfort food. Unlike most restaurants that offer breakfast, lunch, and dinner, everything I’ve tried on the Blue Plate menu has been delicious and I always leave satisfied. This time around I ordered:

Matzo Ball Soup - Simple and delicious. It came with oyster crackers.

Chicken Chow Salad - I love this salad. Romaine lettuce, grilled chicken, grilled vegetables, feta cheese, avocado, cucumbers, and tomatoes. I could eat this everyday.

Coconut Ice Cream Ball - Vanilla ice cream rolled in toasted coconut served with chocolate syrup on the side. I never enjoyed coconut until recently, but it is as if a whole new world of delicious combination possibilities has opened up. Usually when I “share” with my boyfriend, he takes a bite and puts his utensil down. This was not the case, but instead turned into a barbaric spoon scooping war. Seriously. Chocolate syrup was shed. On the table, on the plate, on the floor, and on the face. Everywhere.

Blue Plate
1415 Montana Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90403-1711
(310) 260-8877