Hi all, it’s been too long since we had an offline and I’d like to rectify matters. There’s a nice little French bistro that I know on 5th St called Mathilde, where K&L has held all kinds of successful events, and I’d like to see if there’s interest in a small offline of about 10 people or so. The owner of Mathilde, in one of those little quirks of fate, was my landlady when I first moved to SF and I have always had a soft spot for the place. If you’re interested, please post here and I’ll add you to the list, and also send me your email address via DM when you get a chance. First come first served, and I’ll start a waitlist if there is excess interest. Finally, please do not reserve a spot unless you are sure you can make it!
Date/time: July 23, 7pm
Place: Mathilde French Bistro (315 5th St, San Francisco 94107)
Theme: bring whatever pleases you that you’d like to share with others French wine please, anything within that broad constraint
Food: traditional. I love their duck confit and the tarte tatin is excellent. Menu here: Menu — Mathilde French Bistro
Corkage: I’ll try and negotiate down corkage, but no promises, and we’re going to tip bigly regardless
Payment: we’ll order as normal, leave a generous tip, and split the check. Please be prepared to Venmo/Paypal me at the end of the evening. Trust me, it’ll be a good value
“Anything that pleases to share” is a pretty broad theme! Will you want to coordinate in advance, so we don’t end up with 10 Ausleses? And I assume this will be non-blind?
French is good, it’s mostly what I have anyway haha
Good question! Their glassware is… adequate. I recommend bringing your own
Oh yes, please feel free to post about what you might bring. Here and there people have brought mystery bottles in foil and that’s cool if you want to do that, but by and large this will be non-blind
Now that we’re <2 weeks away I’ve been thinking about what to bring, and have the following shortlist:
2013 Pierre Peters Chetillons that I want to sample early, for science
2004 Ramonet Vergers
2001 Moine-Hudelot Chambolle Feusselottes
1995 Lynch Bages
1989 VCC
Let me know what you guys are thinking, and if you have any preferences wrt the above
Somehow I missed this posting and delighted to see offlines starting up again in SF. I’m late to the game to join this one but will certainly try in the future. Cheers everyone!