Hi bento friends! Please join me for a stroll along the San Francisco waterfront from our first visit to this wonderful place...
Fisherman's Wharf is famously touristy yet we loved walking it in the bracing wind, taking in the piquant vintage restaurant signs and of course gorgeous shellfish bounty...
Soaking in the bright sky and sun, we walked briskly to the Ferry Building Farmer's Market
Explosive colors of flowers and fruit echoed the intense blue sky...
Inside the Ferry Building, more local bounty of beautiful quality...
Rum dark chocolate truffles...very good indeed
Lunch at waterfront Pier 23 was a delight!
Jamison's shot of our table with a very fresh crab and shrimp salad sandwich on toasted sourdough, sweet potato fries...
The coleslaw was excellent with just enough paprika...
Our view from inside, protected from the wind...
Mellow afternoon companions...loved these guys!
We ended our exploration of the waterfront with a visit to the magical Musee Mechanique at Pier 45, an enormous collection of arcade games from the early 20th century onwards.
What a strange and poignant catalog of dreams in these little theatres of fortune and skill, colorfully etched with themes of fate, luck, love, speed. Wandering the huge hall, we were left smiling and amazed by the time-travelling jumble of games--some remembered by us from arcades of the 70's and 80's, side by side with portals to eras and childhoods before our own...
The report from this mystical typewriter informed me that I was warm-hearted but a bit naive...
Rich layers of the past glinting through this seaside landscape, its cornucopia of visual and edible pleasures...and the sense of so much more to be seen and encountered in this windy, mysterious city has us eagerly anticipating our return!
