This post has nothing to do with motherhood, or my Grandmother’s passing. Except that since becoming a mother I’ve had less time and money to eat out fancy, and my Grandmother loved a good white-tablecloth restaurant, so tangentially, it fits.
I was just thinking today that I wanted to make this list, so here it is, grouped into buckets and listed in no particular order therein and mainly Oakland but I’m including a few Berkeley places because I break rules like that:
Bucket Half-Empty
(a.k.a. fabulous restaurants I’d really like to try someday)
Bucket Half-Full
(a.k.a. fabulous restaurants I’d like to eat at again someday, and again)
Oliveto (although this one could go above since I haven’t been there since the new chef started; one of our last meals with the previous chef, Paul Canales, as well as one of our last date nights pre-parenthood happened a week or so before Jonah was born and involved truffles)
Bucket Turned Invisible
(a.k.a. fabulous restaurants that exist no longer but I’d eat at them again if they could re-materialize)
Downtown (oh my lord, will anyone ever provide those perfect little anchovy-stuffed fried olives again?)
Bucket Totally Full
(a.k.a. fabulous but not too spendy places I do eat at once a year or more)
Aunt Mary’s (bonus points if you can spot the pic of me and Jonah in the About Us slideshow)
Yum! Jason and I try to get out for a date once a month, this month didn’t happen, but when we do we try to go somewhere that we wouldn’t take the kids too.