Ever since we moved to SF, we’ve been going out to a nice restaurant once a week.  It’s great to live in a city with so many good restaurants and this is how we were able to try some of the best over the past 5 years.  It used to be Wednesdays but at one point it migrated to Tuesdays.  Well, with the baby countdown in our midst, we made sure to continue this tradition and we’ve been to some pretty good places.  In the past three weeks, we’ve been to places that all start with “Chez”: Chez Spencer, Chez Papa Resto, and last night we went to Chez Panisse Cafe.  It wasn’t on purpose but turned out to be a funny coincidence.

Anyway, last night was considered possibly one of our last nights out to dinner and it was appropriate that we had dinner at a place that we first visited over 10 years ago.  This time we ate upstairs in the more casual cafe and we had a nice time.  We enjoyed the Duck a l’Orange with blood oranges and a garlic souffle and the handmade pasta with trumpet mushrooms and fava beans.

The best part of the night was the dessert.  We usually share one but we splurged and had two!  Both were so yummy: ginger cake with candied kumquat and chantilly creme and the meyer lemon and pink lady apple galette with vanilla ice cream.  Yum.

Hopefully we’ll be able to have some nights out after Kumquat arrives but I know that it won’t be as frequent.  I’m just glad that we had the last five years to indulge.  Cheers!!