Like everyone else, J and I are trying to be more careful with money. Being who we are and living where we live, it's impossible to completely eliminate dining out. What we've done is opt for a combination of lower end dining and dining out for lunch, happy hour, or snacks instead of dinner.
This Saturday, we stopped in at Nara Sushi on Polk for $1 happy hour sushi after getting a haircut down the street. The quality was fine for everything, and the salmon was quite good. The $1 pricing is per piece, runs 3-6pm every day, and includes about ten of the most basic nigiri choices. $2 hot sake is also available.
Today, we took a walk through Chinatown and North Beach and stopped at Stella Pastry for a
sacripantina ($4.78), one of my favorite desserts in SF. I think Stella has the best tiramisu in the city, but for my money I usually order the sacripantina because I don't want coffee or chocolate competing with the fluffy cake and lightly boozey Italian cream. To take home, I got four Italian cookies ($1.48).
This Saturday, we stopped in at Nara Sushi on Polk for $1 happy hour sushi after getting a haircut down the street. The quality was fine for everything, and the salmon was quite good. The $1 pricing is per piece, runs 3-6pm every day, and includes about ten of the most basic nigiri choices. $2 hot sake is also available.
Today, we took a walk through Chinatown and North Beach and stopped at Stella Pastry for a sacripantina ($4.78), one of my favorite desserts in SF. I think Stella has the best tiramisu in the city, but for my money I usually order the sacripantina because I don't want coffee or chocolate competing with the fluffy cake and lightly boozey Italian cream. To take home, I got four Italian cookies ($1.48).
4 comments:
Is $1/sushi piece really that special? I feel like you get the same sushi at the same price from any other preset sushi/sashimi combo.
That said, the $1 pieces in your picture seem to be of way better quality than what I'm finding in DC.
$1 is about as cheap as it gets in SF, especially in our part of town. If we venture way out on the bus we might be able to find places where a chirashi or sashimi plate equals a little more than $1 a piece, but this is walking distance in a neighborhood where it's usually closer to $2 a piece.
That's not to say I don't hope to be proven wrong. Anyone?
Best tiramisu? I am jumping on the next flight to SF!
Stella really does have the best tiramisu. I don't even like tiramisu 90% of the time. Especially at Asian bakeries. Bleh.
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