Hi All, just got back from vacation so apologies for the long absence. Let’s get the ball rolling for a May offline. Usual dates are weeknights, Mon-Wed. I was thinking of the following themes:
Looks like I’ll have to miss this one, as I’ll be away around that time. Haven’t met up with the SF crew in a while, so hopefully the outing after this one will work.
I’m always up for a big-Balla wine dinner… I have lots of nice bottles and not nearly enough opportunities to open them. If we do Italian reds, could we focus on Barolo? I haven’t tried many and it’s a region I want to get more exposure to.
I could do either day but my preference is to link up with Mike.
Mike, if that fails and we do this on the 19th do you still have lunch on the 18th and dinner on the 23rd available? Or do you have any chance to do a South Bay thing say in Los Gatos?
Lunch 18th almost certainly, though I’d be looking at 1:30-ish or so—I’m seeing Ed Kurtzman in the morning and want to give him a couple hours. 23rd probably, but need to confirm that. Ashish—I have a 2005 Produttori di Barbaresco Rio Sordo on the list to bring out, if you’re willing to “bend” to include Barbaresco
OK… so if we raise the number of attendees to 10, the voting tally for the date is as follows:
18 - 4 votes
19 - 3 votes
18 or 19 - 3 votes
If we stick to 8 people, votes will tally as:
18 - 2 votes
19 - 3 votes
18 or 19 - 3 votes
Now we have a big problem… I just checked…
Alegrias is closed on Mondays AND Tuesdays 2. The Palace is ALSO closed on both Mondays AND Tuesdays (recent development).
So the only place open on Mondays and Tuesdays is Bella’s (or another restaurant we have not listed).
Zazie is open both Mondays and Tuesdays but only Tuesdays (19) has free corkage. Also if we go 10 people, we again have to go with a family style menu… which is not bad but is a lot of effort to set up. Not sure if they will allow multiple bottles to be brought in if it is not free corkage night. Lastly I was only able to get a reservation for 7 people for May 19 on Zazie though open table (same for the 18th). Entering 8 people made both dates unavailable.
Please start suggesting solutions and/or alternative venues.