I awoke this morning contemplating a question a friend asked last night, "What will you miss the most?". A single, short answer is really quite impossible to give as I have been spoiled by the Bay Areas many treasures over the past 26 years of my life.
So in true lazy summertime form I spent the better part of this morning compiling the following "Best of The Bay Area" list for all two of my followers (shout out to Mom and Kacie) in the hopes that you continue to take advantage of everything this place has to offer.
Starting with food:
#1 Best burger and shake: Peninsula Creamery in Palo Alto, hands down no exceptions
#2 Best breakfast place & item: Hobbees Blueberry Coffeecake
#3 Best pizza: I'd be committing heresy if I didn't say Pizza My Heart (although I do have another list ranging from high class to a greasy mess if you are interested)
#4 Best sushi: A tie between Minatos in Japantown and the place in Capitola above the ice cream shop.
#5 Best frozen treats: Another tie between Jon & Bons Frozen Yogurt in Chico & Micheals Gelato in Palo Alto
#6 Best sandwich: Alotta's in Los Altos
#7 Best pasta place to take your married girlfriends so they can drool over the Italian waiters: Pasta! in Palo Alto & Mountain View
#8 Best farmers market: Campbell's on Sunday morning's
On to outdoorsy stuff (since we have to work off all the food we just ate):
#1 Best place to volunteer: Village Harvest and Urban Sprouts - JUST DO IT!
#2 Best daily run (ok you caught me, daily walk): The Dish in Palo Alto & Rancho San Antonio in Los Altos & Crystal Springs in San Mateo & the UC Santa Cruz track at sunset & Bidwell Park in Chico
#3 Best hike w/ a view: Point Reyes or really any hike in Marin County
#4 Best kick my ass and call me Sally day hike: Purisma Creek off Skyline -down Harkins Trail to the redwood forest and then up (and I mean UP) Whittmore Gulch trail.
#5 Best climbing gym & yoga classes: Planet Granite in Belmont
#6 Best beach: hmmm...I was quite fond of that one secluded beach Erica and I found off Highway 1 until we were run off by that old, really tan naked guy
Drinking and Dancing Establishments:
#1 Best day drinking: Zietgiest in SF (#1 they have Great White ON TAP, #2 Good, and I mean good, Bloody Mary's) and possibly Half Moon Bay Brewery when there is a band playing.
#2 Best place to see any band: The Little Fox and maybe even the Big Fox in Redwood City
#3 Best dancing: Yes, I have to do it and say Santana Row. Oh that actually kinda hurt, I must also say I much prefer the impromptu living room dance party with friends to the 60 year old overweight guy your "friend" claims wants to dance with you @ Rosies (can we say awkward and completely inappropriate on said friends part although we still say thank you to said friend for trying to help a sista' out).
#4 Best local winery: Ridge (take a lunch and enjoy the view) & Savanah-Chanelle (blueberry wine baby, blueberry wine)
#5 Best BBQ: Any friends backyard
***Oh man, I just realized how long this is and how many list making rules I broke in writing it (seriously you can't have two, even four, items under one number, c'mon Nicole you know better). In a nod to the readers time I cut out the following categories: Best Places to Live (remember the 19 skunks), Best Day Outings (which included the Tactdial Dome in the Exploratorium) and Best Local Shops (Keplers Books being #1). I will close this out with a little secret, I kept the original title of the list until the end of this blog as I knew the common reader would read no further purely by the precedent it was setting with its length:
"The Places I've Spent my Time and Money and Created Many Nostalgic Memories With Friends Since Graduating College".
P.S. Yes I did really just write Best 19 times, I was going for a new writing style called obsessive repetition.
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