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February 06, 2006
le virage
le virage
Originally uploaded by in retrospect.
i spent the weekend at home with my dad in walnut creek and managed to get a record of the fantastical le virage restaurant on north main street.
i remember when i was a tiny four-year old girl perched on the armrest in the back seat of my mother's vw hatchback staring out the window and would gaze at this restaurant painted with scenes of people clearly having such a fabulous time, i wanted nothing better than to eat a le virage.
but it was, in 1975, the fanciest restaurant in town and not suitable for a small child. apparently.
i had forgotten about the restaurant for years until one day i was taking the BART train to my father's house and remembered my long forgotten fantasy of dining there.
and it had closed just two weeks prior.
so this trip i had to at least capture the scene that captivated the culinary imagination my very early childhood.
Posted by heidijanet at 10:06 PM | Comments (1)
February 02, 2006
four things
i've been tagged by judi to present my rendition of four things, and since i can refuse her nothing, here i go:
Four jobs I've had:
1. pulling chairs on the slopes of Snowbird (aka liftie scum)
2. setting records on a daily basis for how many plates loaded with slabs of red meat can be shuttled from the kitchen at Lone Star
3. live-in nanny for two small children and a full-grown woman
4. welding shop
Four movies I can watch over and over:
1. the godfather (highly recommended in the theatre)
2. the misfits
3. who's afraid of virginia wolf?
4. the notebook *blush* (yes, i'm embarassed for me too)
Four places I've lived:
1. san francisco, california
2. greenwich, connecticut
3. fort collins, colorado
4. salt lake city, utah
Four TV shows I love:
1. six feet under (RIP)
2. grey's anatomy
3. forensic files
4. america undercover
Four highly regarded and recommended TV shows that I've never watched a single minute of:
1. survivor
2. the bachelor
3. the oc
4. fear factor
Four places I've vacationed:
1. acapulco, mexico
2. vail, colorado
3. savannah, georgia
4. napa, california
Four of my favorite dishes:
1. marinated venison with spaetzle and red cabbage at suppenkuche in cole valley, san francisco
2. croque monsieur at cafe claude on claude ln. in san francisco
3. carpaccio at the steps of rome on columbus (again san francisco)
3. sloppy, greasy pepperoni pizza tossed by a sweaty, italian man in a wife beater and an apron on a hot july afternoon on fire island, new york
Four sites I visit daily:
1. electrolicious
2. defective yeti
3. salon
4. metafilter
Four places I would rather be right now:
1. in bed
2. in a tent
3. on a sailboat
4. city lights bookstore
Tag Four other bloggers:
1. ariel
2. martin
3. mimi smartypants
4. uhhhh...running short on bloggers that haven't already been tagged.
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