Vegetable personalities

Greetings again from San Fran, city o' food. We once again ate our way around the city.

First, we rented bikes (clanging, cheap monstrosities) and rode over the Golden Gate Bridge. Most of the bridge was wreathed in fog, but when you got to the Sausalito end of the bridge, you could see the water with sailboats in it and the mountains. Something about mountains + high bridge + wind made me a little nervous. I was glad to turn around and go back over the bridge to the foggy part where you couldn't see anything and therefore forgot how high you were. D made the point that glass-bottomed airplanes probably wouldn't sell very well.

On our way back from the bridge, we passed Fort Mason Center which houses Greens! So we had our second meal at Greens. Curried golden zucchini soup and a summer sampler than included little filo pockets of cheese, farro salad with heirloom tomatoes and roasted red pepper hummus. Mmm. D had a pizzetta.

Then I went to yoga, which was good, though the studio itself is not as attractive as Laughing Lotus in NYC. Maybe they should use Laughing Lotus's designer and get themselves some sorbet-colored walls.

After yoga, we had dinner at Kokkari Estiatorio, a Greek place that is quite happening. I saw a woman well over 6 feet...maybe a model? We did the usual vegetarian-at-a-Greek-restaurant thing and got a bunch of appetizers in lieu of an entree. We had:

grape leaves
a peach salad with walnuts and feta
a watermelon salad with pine nuts and feta
tzatziki (yogurt sauce with pita triangles)
zucchini cakes
spanakopita
butter beans

Keep in mind that the portions were pretty small and the food was for the most part pretty healthy. We're not gluttons, really :) And dinner was preceded and followed by long, hilly walks.

I'll miss San Fran. I want to find out whether I got into yoga school or not!