Luna Park

Luna Park has captured by tastebuds by storm and kept them as hostages. And I like it.

After the deliciously large salad and sandwich my friend, Jodet, and I enjoyed for lunch one day after work, we decided to get some dessert. After discussion over the menu and a suggestion from the adorable waiter, we finally picked the make your own s'mores. Yes, you heard that correctly: make your own s'mores. I repeat: MAKE YOUR OWN S'MORES.

Out from the kitchen (the magical land where the best dessert ever came from), appeared two dishes full of baking marshmallows, melting chocolate, and crispy graham crackers. In other words, the most heavenly dessert man could have created was coming out of the kitchen straight towards us. And we devoured it. WITH PRIDE.



Go here. You will not regret it. At all.

They also had goat cheese fondue, but we did not get that. Next time.

Fall 2010 SF Fashion Show

Finding the gems in the dust...

The fall show for 2010, attended by almost two hundred people, had some gorgeous outfits and interesting jewelery/makeup, yet I felt there were so many duds. The included looks are the enjoyable ones, but perhaps I am way too critical? (Never. Ever.)





Excited for the Spring 2011 show.

Heart Isn't the Only One Fond of "Barracuda"

You'd have me down, down, down, down on my knees
Now wouldn't you... Barracuda?

Yes, yes I would.

A couple of us went to barracuda the other week for a dinner and it was some of the best sushi I have consumed in the city thus far! I ordered an avocado roll, cucumber roll, and a tempura vegetable roll. They ordered a tuna roll, and some other interesting looking stuff.

The only problem: the horribly high level of tackiness of the interior design is bad. Fake bamboo and Christmas lights? Come on.

The style of the bar was nice and the barman even gave us a free shot because of my roommate's birthday. But it doesn't matter how amiss the decorations were, the food was great. The sushi was fresh and tasty, as well as being presented in a clean and appealing way.

Located in the Castro district, on Market Street, between Sanchez St. and Noe St.
View their website.

You know it's the holidays when you get to see...

Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

This year, there were the most amount of wings ever used in any VS fashion show. It was also Chanel's first year for wearing wings: I was surprised she didn't get them earlier! Furthermore, there was six different parts this year: sports, PINK, heaven (with Akon), barnyard, wild animal, and romantic firework (with Katy Perry). All the girls were so gorgeous, nobody was looking at Katy or Akon, at all. They were looking at this:


As my roommate said, every girl will go throw up now.

"The Sexiest/Weirdest Night In Television" (buddytv.com)

"Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show takes more than genetically blessed supermodels to come to fruition—it takes a village." (Harper's BAZAAR)

I absolutely loved the accents of feathers used in the wings. There were a lot of gorgeous colored peacock feathers and bleached white feathers; the designer team for the show is extremely innovative when deciding what to use for the materials. There were many natural aspects, such as straw, feathers, and flowers, that made the show so much more beautiful. Check out HB's backstage video about the wings below:

He makes them feel so awkward.

I wonder how they walk on that glitter filled runway. I like my glitter, but this runway made it look almost too ridiculous... and the sequins did not help. I am not saying that their use of sequins with bras were as bad as any Ed Hardy get up but they could use a more innovative, or expensive, type of product.

Other things I had a problem with: The boxing getup/sports part/ugly soccerball beanbag thing. That whole segment regarding to sports was really, quite, well... awkward and disturbing. THIS and THIS are not hot.

I did love the romantic part though. It was well, romantic. The effortless look of sexiness was completely evident here: THIS and THIS are hot.

But if you were wondering why Miranda Kerr wasn't in the show... She's pregnant with a pirate's baby.

If you missed it the first time around, there will be moment to relive the fantasy lines on December 8th at 8/7C on the CW!

I don't care if it's Tiffany & Co., it's still tacky

I know Tiffany & Co. has been around since the dawn of time(seriously though, it's been almost 200 years), but this is too much tackiness and childishness for me. Yeah, the colors are pretty and yeah, it's tiny and 'cute'. How have we gone from Holly Golightly's favorite store to creating such a horrendous thing? The only people I can actually fathom wearing this on their keychains are spoiled seven-year-olds or mothers in their late 50's trying to regain their youth. Perhaps even a grandma getting a trinket in Hilo Hatties from Hawaii to add to her vast collection of snowglobes and shot glasses? I feel I have gone too far making jest of this item; I shall stop.

Now I will stop.

Okay, now I will stop.

Granola Munchers like Me

V is for Vegan.

I recently found out I am not the only granola munching, blackberry picking, hippie in San Francisco; there are many more vegetarians out there! The San Francisco Vegetarian Society, which I did not know existed until 2 weeks ago yet it has been around for 25 years, held the 11th annual World Vegetarian Festival Weekend in Golden Gate Park. The festival was full of grocery stores and companies promoting their businesses and food. The delicious, raw, and vegan cuisine samples were delectable to try and buy.

The events were also a lot of fun to attend; I got to see a favorite author of mine, Rory Freedman, author of Skinny Bitch, Skinny Bitch in the Kitch, and Skinny Bastard. She talked about the title, how she hates it, and what influenced her to create such an influential novel. I loved how she mentioned during the festival that although she hates the title, it is the main thing bringing people to read the vegan eating novel covered up as a diet book.

Rory Freedman during the Veg Fest

There was also the first ever vegan fashion show held in San Francisco. The Show was featuring many fashion designers and apparel companies. Some of the companies were Mission Savvy, whose 5 separate lines have different missions, Pansy Maiden, which specializes in fashionable, handmade, vegan bags, Lion's Share Industries, who has an impressive amount of vegan inspired t-shirts, Rico Jeans, which has 60% recycled cotton jeans, and Vaute Couture, famous for the upcycled windbreakers. The president of the Vegitarian Society, who is 76 and has the legs of an 18 year old, was also featured at the end of the show. View the entire fashion show below.

To see SFVS's official website, go here.

Date, on a Lake

Date time with Joseph, a wonderful friend of mine and we love going all over the city, seriously. This time, we decided to rent a boat on Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park and reenact The Notebook (if only). Stow lake was way too much fun, we had quite an adventure.

Although the water was green, I kinda liked it like that.

This waterfall, Huntington Falls, is supposedly one of the two hidden waterfalls in the city. Also, apparently, it's a popular cruizing spot for men...

The boat was $20 per hour, which perhaps could get a bit steep, but the boat seats four and splitting it four ways would be nothing. There are paddle boats (for lazy people, like us) and row boats (for the physically gifted in the upper arm muscle department). They also sell pink popcorn, which is a fricken tradition to buy there! Then we wandered. All the way over to Haight Street, which is about 2 miles of wandering. I love the houses all around Haight Street, so gorgeous and have many beautiful courtyards.




God, the weather in the city has been so perfect these past few weeks! I'm going to be enjoying it while it lasts. You do the same.