Satiated cravings for fancy dinners out...
Saturday night I tagged along to a birthday dinner with a friend. We started at the birthday boy's (protecting the innocent) loft, which is located right downtown in an awesome redone building. As soon as we walked in the door we were greeted with a menu of our options from the bar. However, as we looked a little closer we found that it wasn't as fancy as we thought, but instead geared for nothing but fun. First, the appetizers were nothing more fancy than bagel bites, and salami & cheese cubes (yum!). For drinks they had a whole list of mixed drinks, beers, shots, juice and more. I chose the Bacardi Silver that was on the menu and found it actually was the only one he had. Someone had left it at his house, so he put it on the menu. ha!Now let me set the scene, because really this is the only reason I'm posting about this place - it was fascinating. The birthday boy is a bit of a fanatic collector, to put it lightly. Of precious coins, you ask? Stamps, maybe? (well actually I'm sure he has those too seeing as how he had mini-collections of everything under the sun!!) But what anybody will notice just stepping into his huge loft are mini-shrine collections of: Star Wars memorabilia, Don Mattingly paraphenelia, a Laura Dern wall of framed/autographed photos (among quite a few other on the same wall), Belinda Carlisle & the Go Go's, Morrissey/Smiths and more..... and that's just downstairs!! Upstairs we found mini-collections of 80's buttons, trophies, animaniacs toys and the
Every guest got their photo taken with the i-zone camera and then set down to make a mini happy birthday card for the birthday boy. We insisted our photo be taken by the cardboard Princess Leia in the bathroom. (oh ya, the downstairs bathroom was completely decked out with Star Wars stuff).
Overall it was great and to me it showed great signs of creativity and passion - way better than a cookie cutter pottery barn house any day!! (plus I have my fare share of toys and stuffed animals too - so I certainly can't knock it!)
The night progressed on to us all sitting down to an amazing dinner at Butterfly on the Embarcadero where the pre-fix menu for our large party left us all stuffed! Very good food though - hard to stop eating delicious food, especially when you wanna try it all! yumm! The rest of the night was hilarious... meeting this new group of people was very "entertaining" to say the least - but they were all so warm & welcoming to me, which was darling. Also, note that Butterfly makes a special "lemongrass" mojito where they use vodka instead of rum - and add lemons! Very yummy!
