Update: The winner of the giveaway is Nina from San Francisco! Thanks for the email, Nina; enjoy your sundaes!
Yeay, ice cream! The weather is (sort of) heating up, and it’s time to enjoy a nice ice cream sundae at one of Ghirardelli’s San Francisco ice cream and chocolate shops. If you’d like to try two sundaes for free, leave a comment below or email me at brocandchoc [at] gmail.com for a chance to win*!
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Avital Tours is a name I had heard before — but not until she contacted me about a media tour of The Haight had I considered actually joining a tour. But, since I know surprisingly little about the food scene in The Haight, and I wanted to experience one of these famed food tours, I happily accepted.
The tour took place on a bright, sunny day with eight or so other bloggers. Avital herself was there, but another local foodie and food writer, Virginia Miller, was the guide. The tour was three hours long and took us walking in a relatively small area while providing information about a variety of non-food-related historical facts as we made our way to five food and drink establishments.
A fun little map of the Haight provided by Avital is shown above (click to enlarge); the five stops we experienced are described below.
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I received an email from Jougert Bar and an invitation to come try it out. I’m not down in Burlingame often, but the dishes looked so yummy and interesting, I thought I’d at least share. They offer a myriad of greek yogurt concoctions with all sorts of interesting add-ins. Some are sweet, some savory, and you can even create your own. See some of the photos and descriptions below, and if you get over there to try it out, leave a comment to let me know how it is!
Black Diamond (sweet): Greek Yogurt, Blackberry, Dark Chocolate, Almond, Fresh Mint, Sea Salt, Agave Nectar. photo from jougertbar.com
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Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream is a quaint little shop in the Mission where you can get rad flavors of ice cream any day of the week. I’m only still learning the lingo of the SF food scene, but apparently HS is all the rage. And I have no idea what’s up with the name, btw. (Update: Per this NY Times article, “Mr. Humphries and Mrs. Slocombe were characters on the bawdy old British sitcom ‘Are You Being Served?'”)
The line outside Humphrey Slocombe on your typical sunny Saturday (or so I’m told).
One time, I went to this ice cream shop in Berkeley that had a line out the door. And I was like, “oh, wow, this place must be amazing”. A double scoop of basil and lavender ice creams later and I was done with that place. So when I heard that Humphry Slocombe serves up their own unique flavors, I braced myself for some seriously weird hippie shit. They did not deliver. Which is to say, it was amazing….
Cue heavenly sounding boys choir. (Halleluja…)
Loard’s is an Establishment as far as I’m concerned. Capital “E” and everything. The decorations are from a decade when my parents roamed the play yards (and I mean that they were children, not just really creepy adults) – pink and white stripes installed with enough vigor and enthusiasm to last a century. And boy do I hope it does.
I have frequented this shop pretty much since I was a kid but became especially attached after obtaining my driver’s license and being miraculously allowed to chauffeur myself down for a sundae anytime I darn well pleased.
Pink stripes aside, Loard’s ice cream is legendary. It is deliciously creamy and the choice of flavors is unrivaled …