Had an awesome time meeting Miss Brooke tonight!
Brooke is sassy, hilarious and I love it. When I arrived, she toured me around Pacific Heights, which I became obsessed with because its SO pretty!
And then we ate at probably one of my new favorite restaurants, La Med! This was my kind of place….really cute and quaint with awesome hummus. Healdsburg lacks good hummus joints.
I had a cup of chicken and rice soup to start—
And then we both ordered the same thing, the Mediterranean salad plate that came with salad, hummus, baba ganoush, tabbouli and potato salad. SO GOOD.
San Francisco has the best food ever. Enough said.
And then after our early bird dinner, Brooke drove me over to the Castro to hit up her favorite cookie joint.
It was actually highly inappropriate and hilarious. I chose a pumpkin cookie, which was delish:
And, on my way out, I stopped at Coffee Bean for a winter dreams tea latte because I’m addicted.
Time for BED!
Hillary @ Nutrition Nut on the Run
January 6, 2010 at 9:37 pmYou’ll have to elaborate on the inappropriateness of Hot Cookie. I can only imagine if it was in Castro =) Another fun day in your life!
Danielle (Coffee Run)
January 6, 2010 at 9:38 pmThe scenery is gorgeous! I wonder what inappropriate things were going on inside the cookie place? lol
Sarah
January 6, 2010 at 9:39 pmSo jealous you get Winter Dream lattes – so miss Coffee Bean!!!
amber
January 6, 2010 at 9:45 pmahh coffee bean! How fun! Those restaurants look awesome! You City girls need to hit me up next time! =)
Kristi
January 6, 2010 at 9:53 pmYay for fun times in the city by the bay! I miss my hometown so much. Jenna, do you know about the secret slides of San Francisco? I guess you’ll be needing another trip back to the city for the slides. We usually hit up “Miette” for macarons afterwards.
Brooke
January 6, 2010 at 10:02 pmSO MUCH FUN! GREEK GOODNESS ON A PLATE! Next time we are going to beignet flight it up and I am going to shoot you some lovey eyes over a bottle of Merlot. And then we are going back to Hot Cookie for macaroons and maybe a browse at “What Your Mother Doesn’t Know”. Your know my number, babez.
LOVE LOVE LOVE!
Brooke
January 6, 2010 at 10:07 pmp.s. I hope you got my last comment on your other post and I was serious about that cheese sleepover ordeal..
Sana
January 6, 2010 at 10:07 pmI am sooo obsessed with tabbouli!!! So my new fav thing!
Stef
January 6, 2010 at 10:12 pmso fun that you guys got to hang out, isn’t La Med awesome? i love the fillmore. and that cookie place is great too! brooke sure knows how to do SF right 🙂
Leo @ cupcakes in Paris
January 6, 2010 at 10:34 pmI’ve never been to California but reading your blog makes me wish I could be with you walking around Pacific Heights or tasting wine in the wine country.
Awesome photos!
Mama Pea
January 6, 2010 at 10:38 pmThis was surprisingly mild. I expect Brooke to have a much more scandalous recap 😉
liane
January 6, 2010 at 10:40 pmThe greek plate looks amazing! why does their salad dressing always taste 1001 times better than any I try and make?!
s
January 6, 2010 at 10:50 pmwoohoo for fun times with homegirl.
Tracey
January 6, 2010 at 10:58 pmIt’s so much fun to follow your adventures! I, for one, can relate much more to your current lifestyle of eating out, socializing and enjoying “foodie” activities than your prior days of a vegan/vegetarian diet and hard-core exercising! I love this chapter of your life – hope it continues and just gets better and better!
Suzanne de Cornelia
January 6, 2010 at 11:07 pmWhen I lived in PacHeights & La Med was a fave place, love the atmosphere. That whole part of Filmore is cool. Molly Stone Market down the street on California has a cute van and drives you home aft get groceries. Nice as can walk everywhere all day, wind up there and then get a free ride.
Tonight, I was looking at ‘Stuff White People Like’ list…very funny: San Francisco, scarfs, Apple Products, expensive sandwiches, architecture, sunglasses,wine, living on the water,
Farmer’s Markets, Whole Foods……..Sheesh I feel like such a cliche. ha
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/full-list-of-stuff-white-people-like/
Karla
January 6, 2010 at 11:34 pmYay for La Med! Glad you enjoyed!
ellen eats beets
January 6, 2010 at 11:41 pmOh I am so jealous of your night! Two of my absolute favorite places. Hot Cookie is just insane. Only in San Francisco!
Chelsea (Chelsea's Chew and Run Fun)
January 7, 2010 at 3:19 amI love the Castro. My best friend and his partner lives there. I’ve heard A LOT about Hot Cookie from them. Haha. Glad you had a lovely evening in the city.
That Greek food looks gorgeous!
christie, honoring health
January 7, 2010 at 3:25 amGlad you had a great time! I can only imagine what you girls were getting into in the cookie shop!
Jessica @ How Sweet It Is
January 7, 2010 at 3:37 amWhat a great meal and bloggy meet up!
Morgan @ Life After Bagels
January 7, 2010 at 3:39 amyou’re such an adventurer . . . I should really do that in my city since I’m sure there’s tonnes of things I haven’t seen yet and I’ve lived here for 5 years now.
sirenjess
January 7, 2010 at 3:55 amDidn’t you just love the pictures on the walls of Hot Cookie????
Whitney @ Lettuce Love
January 7, 2010 at 4:46 amGreat looking meal!
amanda
January 7, 2010 at 4:46 amI really wanna check out Hot cookie because I am a cookie monster!!
Laura Georgina
January 7, 2010 at 5:33 amI renewed my affair with Greek chicken and rice soup over Christmas and we plan to continue it till the day I die…. Your food looks awesome 🙂
Kalli@fitandfortysomething
January 7, 2010 at 5:35 amWhere the cookies actually hot as in warm? I miss this place in Colorado I used to go to that was called hot cookie and the cookies were warm and delicious. The dinner looked so yummy!
Diana
January 7, 2010 at 5:46 amWow! Looks BeAuTiFuL!
Diana
Anna @ Newlywed, Newly Veg
January 7, 2010 at 5:47 amlol…gotta love someone who has a favorite cookie joint 🙂
That med. plate looks awesome– I love dishes like that!
Heather @ The Joyful Kitchen
January 7, 2010 at 5:50 amanything with “med” in the title by law has to be good…boulder has a great place called “The Med” that is absolutely phenomenal!
San Francisco is such a great city…glad you ladies had a great night 🙂
Heather @ Side of Sneakers
January 7, 2010 at 6:01 amThe winter dreams tea latte sounds delish!
eatmovelove
January 7, 2010 at 6:16 amA cookie joint?! My kind of place and only another reason to move there…hmmm – that coffee sounds divine as well.
Nice day with a good friend 🙂
Oh and today is the last day for my Oikos give-a-way if anyone wants to participate ! 😉
katherine
January 7, 2010 at 6:19 amAw Fillmore Street! One of my closest friends lived there and had a roof deck with one of the most amazing city views I’ve ever seen. Definitely felt like living on top of the world.
Thinking about a move to SF someday? 🙂
Casey @ Spicy&Sweet)
January 7, 2010 at 6:20 amMmm…your dinner looks yummy. And it’s so beautiful out there. 🙂 Reading your blog makes me want to move to CA! Maybe someday 🙂
Anne Marie@New Weigh of Life
January 7, 2010 at 6:25 amDinner looks fantastic!
Lauren @ Eater not a runner
January 7, 2010 at 6:35 amInappropriate cookies? Sounds like a good time!
ShutupandRun
January 7, 2010 at 6:37 amWhat IS a winter dream latte?
Jenna
January 7, 2010 at 6:50 amOmg Jenna you don’t know how jealous I am thAt you met Brooke!
La med sounds like it had awesome food! And that cookie place looks great as well:) so glad you finally got to meet up with her!
JennA
Niki
January 7, 2010 at 6:52 amThe cookie place looks fab! You always have the best looking meals! Can’t wait until I get to visit Northern CA!!
Kati @ Living Well
January 7, 2010 at 6:56 amHot cookie!? 🙂 Yum!
Jenny
January 7, 2010 at 7:12 amI just made it out to San Fran for the first time a few months ago and completely fell in love. It’s so quaint but a city at the same time – you get the best of both worlds!
Heather (The Single Dish)
January 7, 2010 at 7:14 amThat med plate looks awesome, right up my alley. You should make your own hummus!
Whit
January 7, 2010 at 7:18 amA Homegirl meet up!?!?! With cookies?
Paige@ RunningAroundNormal
January 7, 2010 at 7:20 amSounds like a blast! Those pictures do look very pretty.
The Mediterranean plate made me drool!
skinnyrunner
January 7, 2010 at 7:20 amok seriously jealous of you and the cookie place now. those cookies are monstrous!
Jenny
January 7, 2010 at 7:20 amWhat a fun dinner! That cookie joint looks really fun. That is such a foreign concept in my neck of the woods.
Beth @ DiningAndDishing
January 7, 2010 at 7:32 amthose cookies are making my mouth water!! another delicious day of eats 🙂
Sheri
January 7, 2010 at 7:35 amHave you been to El Mansour yet? It’s one of my fave places in San Fran. If you like Morocan you should check it out.
PS-Love your blog!!!
Katy @ These Beautiful Feet
January 7, 2010 at 7:35 amSan Fransisco is pretty amazing, I have to go back asap! Hot cookie sounds pretty entertaining! I am curious now, haha. Brooke seems super sassy and fun glad you had a fun night! 🙂
BethT
January 7, 2010 at 7:46 amI’m pretty disappointed you didn’t get a weiner cookie at Hot Cookie.
Janice (O.S.M.B.)
January 7, 2010 at 8:02 amIntrigued by how inappropriate a cookie shop could be…
M
January 7, 2010 at 8:05 amI’ve been to Hot Cookie…There walls are adorned with pics of LOTS of people wearing Hot Cookie underwear and nothing else!
Cynthia (It All Changes)
January 7, 2010 at 8:20 amEverytime you show us food from San Fran it makes me want to visit more and more.
Jil
January 7, 2010 at 8:47 amYour meal looks absolutely divine! Yum!! A good hummus is hard to find! Glad you found some — even if it isn’t in Healdsburg!
Ali @ Food, Fitness, Fashion
January 7, 2010 at 8:49 amThat salad plate looks awesome and much like my dinner from last night!
Zeus' Mom
January 7, 2010 at 9:19 amJenna, You are doing yourself a disservice by not trying La Med’s Chicken Pomegranate. It is OUT OF THIS WORLD!!
Rachel
January 7, 2010 at 9:27 amHot Cookie looks yum. You’re so lucky to get to go to all of these awesome restaurants and shops! I’m jealous 🙂
Carolyn
January 7, 2010 at 9:41 amI would weigh a thousand pounds if I lived where you do. As it is I’m in trouble soon because restaurant week here starts in a couple of weeks. 😉
Jolene (www.everydayfoodie.ca)
January 7, 2010 at 9:54 amI have seen cupcake places – but a cookie place!! That is my kind of dessert shop 🙂
Amanda @ Cakes and Ale
January 7, 2010 at 10:38 amNothing like a good Mediterranean combo plate like that! We have this place here in Chicago called the Pita Queen that I love because they have the best veg combo plate. Just like what you have above, plus grape leaves and falafel!
Diana @ frontyardfoodie
January 7, 2010 at 10:58 amI’m obsessive over Mediterranean food…especially hummus! That looks incredible. Now I want to go back to San Fransisco. hehe
Megan (BitesoftheApple)
January 7, 2010 at 1:11 pmOmggg…LOOOOOOOOOOVE homegirl!! What a stellar duo!!!
eatingRD
January 7, 2010 at 1:36 pmbeautiful pictures! Looks like you had a great time! That Mediterranean plate looks nummers 🙂
Julie
January 7, 2010 at 1:59 pmYeah. SF *does* have the best food. After I moved to San Diego I was like, You call this a latte? Needless to say, I didn’t stay long. Next time you go, check out Cafe Trieste. It’s me favorite coffee place.
Nicole (dishin')
January 7, 2010 at 2:10 pmSuch pretty views and good looking food!!
Katie
January 7, 2010 at 2:17 pmThere’s a bakery like that in the Marais area of Paris… lots of phallus-shaped breads!
Julie I
January 7, 2010 at 2:29 pmJenna, I love your blog (I am a bay area girl, runner, and foodie) but i am sorry…. HOOK ‘EM HORNS!!!!! haha enjoy the game 🙂
BethT
January 7, 2010 at 2:32 pmYou and Homegirl should also try Anthony’s Cookies in the mission. No phallic cookies, but the cookies themselves are divine.
Staci
January 12, 2010 at 9:45 amOh my goodness I just found your blog and now my mouth is watering. That food looks amazing!!