It's true what's said about San Francisco night-lifers - you're either a Marina person, or a Mission person.
We're the latter, so we rarely venture into the Marina district: it's the other side of the city, almost always cooler and damper than The Mission, and full of, well, Marina people.
Despite that, we had a fun night of dinner at Blackwood, with drinks at a nearby bar - I forget the name.
It's strange that a Thai fusion place should prepare arguably the best bacon we've had in years, but it does.
Three of us shared Millionaire's Bacon, with grilled organic asparagus and homemade smoky Maple syrup sauce. All four shared the Samosas: yellow curry puffs stuffed with creamy red potato, caramelized onion, and carrot served with cucumber avocado salad. I started with Marina Strips: grilled Wagyu strips wrapped around baby hearts of palm, with a spicy lime beetroot sauce that I mostly left on the plate. Amo had the Marina Tower: tuna ceviche. roasted rice, kaffir lime, lemongrass, mango, and avocado with crispy chips.
For our main course, we had East Feeds West: crispy
pork shank slow cooked in Asian five spices, Indian vanilla stick,
served with broccolini, Thai vinaigrette, and coconut sticky rice. The ladies had Green Curry, with chicken and rice.
All in all it was a great meal at a comfortable, modern restaurant that distance, weather, and social bias will mean we rarely visit.
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