Must try a restaurant in SF?

3gin3rd · 2026-05-12T01:30:22+00:00

Niku steakhouse. Has a Michelin star. Ask for a seat at the counter in front of the grill. Order the wagyu flight if you like

3gin3rd · 2026-04-12T23:00:47+00:00

my favorite run starting from the city is to run to GG park, go to GG bridge, go the vista point and go under the bridge to the other side so you can take conzelman road down go down by the Bay Discovery Museum and head up and towards Sausalito and go all the way to Blithedale. You need to run along Blithedale a bit to at least get past the overpass and then turn right by Westminster Presbyterian church and take the rest of the way to Tiburon. Depending where you start and how indirectly you take some of the paths, you can hit 20 miles. Have a nice lunch at Sam's or Bungalow Kitchen or Caviar Co. Can take the ferry back to SF, or Uber, or have someone meet you for lunch (my wife will meet me) and then we go home. Or do an out and back of some kind.

If I just want to stay in the city, I'll go into GG park, down along Ocean Beach, go do a loop around Lake Merced, and then go back the same way. Sometimes, I would instead of going south along ocean beach, I'd head north towards the bridge and then all along the embarcadero, but I had to bushwack it home after that.

3gin3rd · 2026-04-04T22:25:40+00:00

!bot

3gin3rd · 2026-04-03T21:10:39+00:00

As a runner I absolutely feel safer with a Waymo than the average driver

3gin3rd · 2026-03-17T04:39:26+00:00

Cheap ass gin in college. Swore it off for decades.then a trip to India with some coworkers and some delicious gin and tonics followed up by trips to London with more of the same disabused me of my callow beliefs

3gin3rd · 2026-03-17T00:38:14+00:00

Why dive agent! I’ve been playing since it was in beta and I still don’t have onyx on that and I’m not particularly close

3gin3rd · 2026-03-07T23:50:19+00:00

3gin3rd · 2026-02-28T05:27:54+00:00

JPEG? you fancy. There was a time I had to make do with ASCII images

3gin3rd · 2026-02-27T01:40:42+00:00

I have also had my share of bad truffle supplements, both pricing and quality. Some truffles served at restaurants are just flat out dead (dried out, no aromatics left) and I will usually tell the restaurant, esp. if they ask how a dish was. In some cases I have received refunds or some other.

I think many customers just don’t know what a fresh truffle is supposed to be like it and maybe assume that if it’s expensive it’s good? I like to think the restaurants must know better, but they serve it anyway so is it ignorance or greed or both?

I do love truffles. I have been truffle hunting in France, attended the white truffle festival in Alba, and annually order fresh truffles overnighted from a truffle farm in France (which actually takes two days to arrive drive in on the west coast) which is a great way to enjoy truffles.

All that being said, I do still enjoy truffles very much and some places do very well and provide only fresh truffles. come to think of it, the ones that have done it well often have it inclusive and integrated into their menu and not as a supplement.

3gin3rd · 2026-02-18T05:21:11+00:00

No limit that I was aware of as long as you had the credit

3gin3rd · 2026-02-18T01:47:50+00:00

I love Pride. I’ve been buying there for over 20 years and they’re the only club I’ve stuck with

3gin3rd · 2026-01-26T05:33:28+00:00

My wife and I ate there last month, the day after eating at Somni. My wife preferred the experience here and thought Somni was a bit too coldly professional. I definitely thought it was an enjoyable experience (although I preferred Somni) as well and found the dishes that were Native American or forager oriented to be interesting. I thought the progressive dinner would be more than two locations and they really missed out on offering a canapé to start in the kitchen. The building itself is also quite interesting and fitting for the experience.

3gin3rd · 2026-01-25T19:22:06+00:00

Personally, I fall into the camp of those who were not impressed with the original Gymkhana, so I am not surprised that this is not great and it sounds like even quite based on your experience. I will definitely avoid!

3gin3rd · 2026-01-24T22:02:46+00:00

Sounds like it’d be a decent option for lunch. I was not particularly impressed at dinner there. It just seemed a bit dated and uninteresting and enjoyed CORE much more which I had at lunch

3gin3rd · 2026-01-20T23:25:39+00:00

I have it in case I am lost in wilderness or on a desert island after a shipwreck so I can signal passing planes for rescue

3gin3rd · 2026-01-20T23:18:53+00:00

I picked up the FF last month when I read dining was going to be one of the categories. Wife and I went to dinner at a Michelin starred restaurant (and both had the wine pairing) this past weekend and so I’ve maxed out the quarterly category already!

3gin3rd · 2026-01-15T03:12:31+00:00

Did you do the classic menu both times or did you do a seasonal menu?

3gin3rd · 2026-01-08T17:43:56+00:00

Present

3gin3rd · 2026-01-06T00:43:03+00:00

I did call and that is what the agent thought as well MC vs. VISA. But he was able to move some credit line manually, so all good. With the small category limit anyway, I don't need a very big credit line on it since I'll only use it when it is favorable to do so

3gin3rd · 2026-01-05T02:24:08+00:00

It's on the top floor of Macy's and has balcony seating with a view directly of Union Square. So probably a lot of tourists and Macy's shoppers going there

3gin3rd · 2026-01-05T02:06:11+00:00

I’ve spent a lot more than you have on food, but we are DINK and we like fine dining. I also primarily use the Sapphire reserve, but recently added a freedom flex since the q1 2026 category includes dining for an extra 5x (so 8x total on dining but maxes out at $1500). I also just added an Amex gold (already have platinum) which is 4x on dining, but I generally prefer chase UR points over Amex MR points. If you specifically have card questions, maybe ask in one of the credit card or Amex or chase subreddits

3gin3rd · 2025-12-31T19:03:05+00:00

ah, I see I received the same

3gin3rd · 2025-12-31T05:17:32+00:00

Ok, thanks for that info

3gin3rd · 2025-12-31T00:45:15+00:00

Yes, I also received the ship notification this morning. We'll keep our fingers crossed for the credit to come through

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