Valentine's Day at Ferry Market

What choices!  What color!  What FUN!  To be at San Francisco's Ferry Building on Valentine's Day was bliss!  A celebration was underway, "Food From the Heart".  The food we saw and the food we ate definitely found its way to my heart! The Commander and I arrived back in the Bay area on Valentine's Eve just before midnight after driving 17 hours.  The Grapevine met our new Little Red Truck, with snow, sleet, high winds - and stalled traffic, adding 3 hours to our already long drive. But it was worth it!  To wake up in our "Luxury Urban Loft" (luxury??) at Jack London Square, BART to San Francisco's Embarcadero, and loll the day away at the unsurpassed Ferry Market is like a dream.  We bought the loveliest French Breakfast Radishes and Rainbow Chard, and a sweet bunch of colorful anemones!  We ate Clam Chowder and Crab Louis with Acme bread while gazing at the Bay - and into each other's eyes (corny, but true).  Then we had a chaser of Tempura Soba soup and Tonkatsu (Delica is probably my personal favorite of all the eateries).  A Chai Latte from Peet's, a take-home Pain Epi from ACME & Mt. Tam from Cowgirl Creamery rounded out our market visit.  Oh!  And a tiny carrot cake for two from Miette!  (This was prettily wrapped for us in a small pink box with simple white string.)

Everything is just so pretty!  I never cease to be amazed at how lovely and colorful and vast the offerings are here!  And at how many, many, many, many people there are!  But that's ok!  Why wouldn't everyone want to be here on a Saturday in February?  Especially with their Valentine! It is one of the greatest places on earth!