2 G's

No 2G as in dollars.  It was the first letter of the restaurants we had our meals.  So wonderful!  Unbelievable was all I could say.  The first one was in Berkeley.  We drove over from San Fran.  The name: Gather.  Here's the link: http://www.gatherrestaurant.com/  Go there!  From San Fran, one can take the BART all the way there.  Or drive if you have a GPS and dare to drive.  It was just insane how people drive here.  I had a Corolla, should have a tank!  Anyway, this article is all about food and not driving.  

At Gather, I had a Pollenta, lentil and poach egg dish.  The flavour.  Iron-wife had a hearty tofu skin sausage with potatoes and leeks I believe.  Wonderful taste.  Did I mention enough about that?  Our dishes were about USD 13 plus taxes.  Soooo good.  It wouldn't have anything to do with the 2-hour workout we had before hand :-P

We drove around Berkeley afterward.  What a d! ve at some places!  Only pockets of cute places.  Really sliding downward. 

We drove home through the Bay Bridge with a quick stop at Treasure Island.  Nice view.  Iron-wife has the pictures, will post later.  After the hard rain last night, the view was spectacular.

In the afternoon, we walked all the way to the Fisherman Wharf from the hotel.  Took the long way.  We burned a lot of calories today.  We headed to Greens for dinner.  It is the Mecca of vegetarian food.  Apparently, the chef is very famous. Restaurant link: http://www.greensrestaurant.com/   This place was located in building A of Fort Mason, at the far end of Fisherman Wharf.  Wine was good: Pinot Noir 2007 California.  Sampler plate of appetizer: sweet potatoes, beets, brown rice with walnut.  Then the Lentil soup.  Wow... Our main courses, they were fantastic.  Iron-wife had the mushroom Shepard pie; I had the chili.  Soooo Soooo good - except mine!  It was good but there was goat cheese.  That's one of the food that I couldn't stand. Strong goat cheese would make me throw up.  Bummer as the chili was good less the goat cheese.  The mocha Iron-wife had as part of the dessert was the best I had.  Convinced her Starbucks was no where close to this calibre.  She agreed.  Not cheap though.  USD 150 later.  

With all the good food, we decided to walk home from Greens.  Almost an hour walk up hill about 1/2 of the time.  We sweated.  The cool San Fran evening weather didn't stop us.