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I love your meals.
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A fish taco from a local chain, Cholita Linda in downtown Berkeley. I think they’re the best fish tacos in town.
Afterwards, I decided to try their carnitas taco. Not as successful–so-so carnitas, and the cabbage and crema didn’t enhance it so much as cover it up.
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Back at our favorite sushi place we’ve been going to for their lunch special for probably 20 years now. It’s not the best or fanciest sushi in Berlin, but it’s reliably good, the dude behind the counter knows us after all these years, and the miso soup remains the best I’ve had anywhere.
The lunch special is 14€ and includes the soup, 3 plates from the belt (you can also order à la carte, of course), and tea.
I started with escolar / white tuna / butterfish nigiri
& finished with two orders of my absolute favorite, the aburiyaki sake.
My PIC’s all-time favorite is the sunshine roll, an unwieldy concoction of sweet water shrimp, salmon-avo-surimi-masago-tartar and ikura.
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No, um, aftereffects from the escolar? I got some that was mislabled as some other kind of whitefish, and the aftereffects were immediate.
Never. Not even once, and it’s one of my favorites.
I always heard one has to consume larger quantities than, say, a few slices of sashimi or a couple nigiri. Did you have a big piece of it? Also, sorry that happened to you. Food-related illness is no fun.
I had a typical portion, maybe 3 ounces or so. It didn’t persist, luckily.
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Oh. Well, that’s still less than one would get in 2 nigiri or 3 slices of sashimi. Or maybe I’ve just been lucky 
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Home made or ??
Home made with boxed (De Cecco) spaghetti.
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Late lunch was from the Northern Spy Restaurant in Canton, MA after the Titanic Exhibition. The site of the restaurant is at the center of the Paul Revere Heritage Site, and is the location where Paul Revere founded the Revere Copper Company in 1801. But before that, the Continental Congress commissioned him in 1776 to oversee the construction of a gunpowder mill at the site.
I’ve just had a day full of history today, haven’t I?
A tuna melt on VERY thick cut Iggy’s sourdough with cheddar and an aioli, with some of the best fries I’ve ever had alongside. Couldn’t finish it, so the other half and rest of the fries are my late dinner as well!
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Pretty mediocre birria tacos at a new food hall in Berlin, based on a popular food hall in London. No rich broth for dipping — actually, no broth whatsoever, as “we don’t serve it like that here.” Beef was tasty enough, but… as ChristinaM can attest to, the Mexican food in Berlin leaves a lot to be desired.
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Chicken thighs, salt and peppered, garlic, thyme and bay…let marinate for a day.
Baked at 225* convection to 180*, sautéed skin down briefly in skillet along with the tomatoes and seasonings.
Lotsa’ onions, mushrooms, Marsala, fresh thyme, rosemary and parsley. And an extra chicken thigh skin which was the cook’s treat!
Dessert was Pistachio almost tiramisu, savoiardi were dipped in undiluted cold brew coffee, pistachio crème patisserie is the filling, top dusted with chopped and finely chopped pistachio.
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With guanicale?
