Ecco Restaurant

September 30, 2008

On Tuesday night, I went for a work dinner at Ecco Restaurant in Burlingame, a goodbye for one of our team members, Eric, who is moving onto another project. I love work dinners.

For starters, everyone got their own tomato salad and individual crab cake, which was very tasty:
We also shared the seared duck foie gras with toasted brioche, sauterne, carmelized apple and red onion:
For dinner, I had the Seared Filet of Angus Beef with wild mushrooms, Old Madeira Wine Sauce and gorgonzola. The beef was a little overdone, but very tender and still easy to cut with a butterknife.



Good luck Eric!

Shin Toe Bul Yi

September 29, 2008

Monday was Wendy's actual birthday, and a few of us went for Korean BBQ dinner with her in Parkside at Shin Toe Bul Yi. Key stayed true to his roots and ordered the entire dinner for us in Korean. I like it when someone else takes charge.


There was the typical assortment of kimchee and the other side dishes. Of course, we had some Kal-Bi and Bul-Go-Gi. This restaurant is also known for its fried chicken (??):


The meal was delicious and fulfilling. I heart Korean BBQ!

Kiddies Sunday

September 29, 2008

On Sunday, Will and I went to a work bbq in Redwood City at Red Morton Park and then went down to Santa Clara to see my sis and the kids. Good quality kiddie time all day long.

Chan-er Turns 33!

September 28, 2008

Wendy's big 3-3 birthday is on the 29th, but we took some time on the weekend to celebrate her birthday.

On Saturday morning, I went for a long run (~11 miles) with Kali and then Will and I started sorting out moving stuff in the afternoon. We took a "moving" reprieve and went to hang out with Wendy and the Spanish surfing contingent at gorgeously-sunny Dolores Park.

For dinner, a good crew of 12 went for dinner to CONDUIT Restaurant for Wendy's birthday dinner.




I had the carpaccio with arugula and spicy peppers to start, yum!
Will and a couple other folks started with the tortellini of braised oxtail, french onion and gruyere. This might have been the winner for the starters, it was delicious!
Gail had the tomato salad with watermelon, basil and ricotta salata. For dinner, a bunch of us had the braised Short Ribs with potato, torpedo onion, carrot and horseradish. This was wonderful, scrumptious, the beef was so tender it almost melted in your mouth. Apparently, CONDUIT is known for this dish, and now I can see why...
Shaun had the roasted pork with sweet corn, fava and bacon. There was nothing left on his plate, so I'm assuming it was good.
Sue Hee had the fettucine with beef-pork sugo and parmagiano reggiano.

After dinner, our plan was originally to go to 500 Club, but early arrivals to that little dive bar alerted us to the fact that there was a funeral wake celebrating the life of some hipster named Bob, so we relocated to Elixir Bar.






Happy (early) Birthday Wendy!