Post #521996 by TikiMookie on Sun, Apr 4, 2010 5:07 PM

Matt took me to SF this weekend for my birthday and we found a few things. Picked up the TV 75th Anniversary mug in Emeryville, CA. (and had a scorpion) Went antiquing and found a few others.

We stayed overnight in the city, walked to the Fairmont Hotel and had dinner at the Tonga Room. It's so beautiful. It looks like they cleaned it up nicely, unfortunately, the food was just so so (too sweet and bland) and I had a pineapple daiquiri which was ok. I ordered a mai tai with dinner and it was so bad I had to send it back!! Tasted like bad medicine... very disappointing.

Then we took some hair raising cab rides (I'm serious, they go at least 70 MPH flying down the hills of San Francisco - Think of the movie "Bullet" with Steve McQueen).

Made it safely to Smuggler's Cove, really fun place. I had a Test Pilot and Matt had the Smuggler Cove Rum Barrel and a painkiller. The bartender, Melissa, was a bar tending marvel! We ended the night at Bourbon & Branch, a 1920's style speakeasy, that requires a password to gain entrance, and some very talented bartenders.

(Our last cab ride to the hotel was unbelievable. Somehow we arrived unharmed. We stepped out and Matt leaned in to pay him and he was asleep, snoring. Matt had to wake him up to pay him. Have you ever heard of a narcoleptic cab driver?) Be careful in the city :)

Note to Duane:

I found the Harvey's Bowl at Midway!