4 Chicks & A Restaurant

West of Pecos - Texas-style, ranch-theme, and southwestern-ish food at this cute spot on Valencia x 16th in the Mission. We were missing our fourth limb today, because Steph is ONE week from giving birth to her baby girl! We reminisced about how many kids have been born in our group since the start of Restaurant Club in May 2005!!!  It's crazy: Katya, Matthew, Nick, Izzy, and soon - baby Wiley. We agreed that R. Club shall continue so long as we are living and able :) Food highlights: brussel sprouts (sounds bizarre, but this app was sweet, crispy, with some kind of delicious creamy sauce), and the lobster (or crab?) salsa thing was also pretty amazing. Green chile mac n cheese was mediocre. Gail and I ordered the artichoke filled with crab and shrimp for dinner. Very creative, and I thought, delicious. Not too heavy. Dionne had the big, juicy burger. I loved the mousse we had for dessert because it was thicker than most. Overall - great food, loud, but cute environment, a...

That's the name, and that's the address of this TWO-week old restaurant (at the time of visit!).  Can't believe we scored a seat at this bright, spacious, and yummy new restaurant.  The menu was small enough that we probably tried at least half the items on the menu.  Every thing was really great.  The corn-filled ravioli, pictured below, was incredible.  As soon as you bite into the pasta, the corn comes exploding out of it in a sweet, creamy bite.  Yeah, it's that sexy.  The "deconstructed" marshmallow thing was superb.  The hangar steak was a hit.  Steph still pregnant!  This was a Sunday night, but it worked for us.  Highlight of my weekend.

Blue Plate in the Mission was Stephanie's pick.  Steph is pregnant at this R. Club!  Hurrah.  I think the food was pretty good.  I can't remember at this point.  But I do recall it was reasonable and of course, we had a great time.  This was an oldy but goody.  August 16, 2013.

Dionne's pick.  A tiny little place in lower pac heights.  Very cute.  Great appetizers.  Entrees were ok.  Very pricey.  This was the first R. Club after Gail gave birth to Isabel.  Was wonderful getting together!  R Club lives on...year 8!!!