622215 Sun May 24 07:51:59 -0700 2009 1 1 San Francisco Bay Area 0 4710508 10+ course lunch there yesterday with Ulterior Epicure and A Life Worth Eating -- I'm hoping they will chime in on all the courses, but this is just a quick recap: 1. Beat salad with fresh ricotta. Damn fine fresh ricotta. 2. Fried brussels sprouts. They are still over-salting this dish. 3. Tuna conserva, puntarelle, garlic, anchovy and mojama; they have added garbanzo beans to this dish and I seem to prefer it the older way it was presented. 4. Beef tongue with pickled horseradish crema. Fabulously tender and rich. 5. Zuppa with porcini mushroom bread dumplings, chives, and pecorino. WAY too salty. Inedibly so for me. 6. Bay scallops with agreeti, preserved lemon and chilies. Couldn't taste the chilies, but I didn't care. Perfectly prepared morsels of goodnes. 7. Sweet potatoes with pancetta, fried chilies, and pecorino. Easily my favorite dish of the day (well, 'cept maybe dessert). 8. Tripe with fennel, chilies, pickled onions, mint and parsley. I could taste these chilies -- almost too spicy for me. 9. Jones Farm rabbit with frisée, carrots, pancetta and mustard. Still a great dish. 10. Ricotta fritters with orange marmalade and crema fresca. OH.MY.GOD. 'Nuff said. We were seated early and tended to well in the beginning, but as the restaurant filled up, there were LONG spans of abandonment which was surprising considering there were people waiting for tables. If you have customers waiting, it would seem to me you want to get the tables turned. The busboy was amazing though. He must have filled my water a dozen times and was on top of cleaning our table and getting left-overs boxed. Sun May 24 07:51:59 -0700 2009 16933 Carrie 218 1 4712512 I forgot a service snafu -- We had to ask for the bill after we had been sitting for some time (ten minutes or so?). As we were perusing the numbers and putting in our cash, the waitress dashed over with a second bill; seems she had forgotten to charge us for my latté. Just seem like bad for to me. Your guests HAVE the bill and are obviously ready to pay. Once the mistake is realized, swallow the extra $2.50 instead of interrupting and drawing attention to the fact that a mere cup of coffee hasn't been included. Mon May 25 07:08:50 -0700 2009 4710508 16933 Carrie 218