Berkeley, August 21, 2010—
PORTLAND FAMILY WAS VISITING Berkeley for the weekend, so we drove down to meet them for lunch in the café, where I had escarole and green bean salad with anchovy, garlic, and soft-boiled egg; then
rib-eye roast beef with shell beans and roasted peppers — Padrones, I was happy to discover — with a little chimichurri dressing the beef, and a nice jus to mash the last of the beans into.
Did we have dessert; yes we had dessert: pluots and figs, and a bowl of raspberry ice cream with sliced nectarines. Memorable, all of it.
Roussette de Savoie, Château Bergin, 2008; Zinfandel, "Chez Panisse" (Green and Red Vineyards, Napa Valley), 2008
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