Snowflake
10-16-2006, 02:20 PM
Rank the Swank - Restaurants and Bars
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The Fairmont Hotel
950 Mason Street (top of Nob Hill)
San Francsco, CA
October 15th
http://www.fairmont.com/sanfrancisco/ (http://www.fairmont.com/sanfrancisco/)
The Lowdown
Afternoon Tea with the old gang of mine
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The Gig
Afternoon Tea
The Grub
Nob Hill Decadence Afternoon tea
The Scene
A group of former co-workers get together to dish about 4 times a year for an afternoon tea.
As a newly returned former co-worker this was my reintroduction to the annual afternoon tea dish and bitch fest. I was not dissapointed.
This was my first visit to the venerable grand dame The Farimont at the top of Nob Hill for an afternoon tea. No question, this venerable lady has one of the most spectacular lobbies in the city. It was a pleasure just to arrive and pause and await my companions in splendor. The Fairmont was completed shortly before the 1906 earthquake and the photos of the hotel perched at the top of the hill looking much like the Parthenon (while everything around it was flattened) is incredible.
I ordered the Nob Hill Decadence tea (glass of house champagne artisinal cheese plate and assortment of sandwiches, smoked salmon on pumpernickel, cucumber with goat cheese and egg salad, assortment of pastries and scones with lemon curd and devon cream)
Now, you may be thinking this sounds like a load of food. It's not, but I always walk away from a tea feeling full (must be all the tea). This was no exception. The choice of teas was, I felt, on the skimpy and unadventuress side (the Ritz offers at least a dozen, including several fruit tisanes; as does The Four Seasons) The pastries were very good, though I felt the scones were overcooked.
Service was top notch and there was a harpist playing all sorts of tunes, from classical to the odd musak kind of pop arrangements that sort of made me laugh. More at myself because I realized I could name them all.
If we go again, I might spring for the Nob Hill Deluxe tea, only because the sandwiches offered differ in that there is a dungeness crab sandwich. but it also comes with caviar, and call me a philestine, I'm just not fond of roe, of any sort.
Of the hotels in SF that serve afternoon tea, I'd rank this lower, but only because I'm probably too picky. There is always Lovejoy's tea room in Cow Hollow and The Ritz and The Palace and then there is the Top of the Mark which really is my favorite (happily, just across the street and on the menu for the Xmas tea)
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The Fairmont Hotel
950 Mason Street (top of Nob Hill)
San Francsco, CA
October 15th
http://www.fairmont.com/sanfrancisco/ (http://www.fairmont.com/sanfrancisco/)
The Lowdown
Afternoon Tea with the old gang of mine
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The Gig
Afternoon Tea
The Grub
Nob Hill Decadence Afternoon tea
The Scene
A group of former co-workers get together to dish about 4 times a year for an afternoon tea.
As a newly returned former co-worker this was my reintroduction to the annual afternoon tea dish and bitch fest. I was not dissapointed.
This was my first visit to the venerable grand dame The Farimont at the top of Nob Hill for an afternoon tea. No question, this venerable lady has one of the most spectacular lobbies in the city. It was a pleasure just to arrive and pause and await my companions in splendor. The Fairmont was completed shortly before the 1906 earthquake and the photos of the hotel perched at the top of the hill looking much like the Parthenon (while everything around it was flattened) is incredible.
I ordered the Nob Hill Decadence tea (glass of house champagne artisinal cheese plate and assortment of sandwiches, smoked salmon on pumpernickel, cucumber with goat cheese and egg salad, assortment of pastries and scones with lemon curd and devon cream)
Now, you may be thinking this sounds like a load of food. It's not, but I always walk away from a tea feeling full (must be all the tea). This was no exception. The choice of teas was, I felt, on the skimpy and unadventuress side (the Ritz offers at least a dozen, including several fruit tisanes; as does The Four Seasons) The pastries were very good, though I felt the scones were overcooked.
Service was top notch and there was a harpist playing all sorts of tunes, from classical to the odd musak kind of pop arrangements that sort of made me laugh. More at myself because I realized I could name them all.
If we go again, I might spring for the Nob Hill Deluxe tea, only because the sandwiches offered differ in that there is a dungeness crab sandwich. but it also comes with caviar, and call me a philestine, I'm just not fond of roe, of any sort.
Of the hotels in SF that serve afternoon tea, I'd rank this lower, but only because I'm probably too picky. There is always Lovejoy's tea room in Cow Hollow and The Ritz and The Palace and then there is the Top of the Mark which really is my favorite (happily, just across the street and on the menu for the Xmas tea)