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Feb. 21st, 2025 10:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madbakerOur friend Trish came up from San Jose for the evening. She really likes a bar in SF, and it's always good to spend time with her. The bar is on the other side of the city from us so we don't tend to go there otherwise. We drove over... and found out it was rented out for a corporate event.
After some Yelp searching for nearby cocktail bars (no, we weren't interested in the Harry Potter-themed bar) we settled on a speakeasy-style bar. The entrance is one of two residential doors (hence the bar's name, "Left Door") and we buzzed in. It's a nice, restrained, art deco-style decoration rather than Prohibition-era. Without a reservation we sat at the short bar. Decent drinks, good food menu, and I'd go back with a reservation so we could sit in one of the rooms on couches and have a nice dress-up evening.
We then drove to a nearby Fronch bistro (where we did have reservations) for dinner. We all opted for the two-course meal and had either Fronch onion soup or calamari, then a lamb shank or scallops. Quite good but filling and no one really wanted dessert.
Home by 8 but I still slept more poorly than I would have liked due to the food and wine. Also I think we're having salad for dinner tonight to compensate for yesterday's calories. Still, it was a nice evening with a friend we don't see as often as we'd like since she's no longer active in the SCA.
After some Yelp searching for nearby cocktail bars (no, we weren't interested in the Harry Potter-themed bar) we settled on a speakeasy-style bar. The entrance is one of two residential doors (hence the bar's name, "Left Door") and we buzzed in. It's a nice, restrained, art deco-style decoration rather than Prohibition-era. Without a reservation we sat at the short bar. Decent drinks, good food menu, and I'd go back with a reservation so we could sit in one of the rooms on couches and have a nice dress-up evening.
We then drove to a nearby Fronch bistro (where we did have reservations) for dinner. We all opted for the two-course meal and had either Fronch onion soup or calamari, then a lamb shank or scallops. Quite good but filling and no one really wanted dessert.
Home by 8 but I still slept more poorly than I would have liked due to the food and wine. Also I think we're having salad for dinner tonight to compensate for yesterday's calories. Still, it was a nice evening with a friend we don't see as often as we'd like since she's no longer active in the SCA.
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Date: 2025-02-23 02:42 pm (UTC)She gave me a Princess' Order of Grace when she was on the Mists throne, which blew me away - I did not think of myself as being a notably courteous/inspiring person.
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Date: 2025-02-26 09:42 pm (UTC)A thing I have learned, since being on either side of that sort of recognition, is that we never know the impact we have had on others, or how what we feel on the inside about what we're putting out in the world actually shows up to other people. Intention matters, as does follow through, but what also matters is where those other people are meeting us in the context of their broader experience.
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