Almost End of Crab Season

It's almost end of Dungeness Crab Season, but fortunately, not yet. A number of wineries are having their annual crab feasts. We'll take a quick jaunt from our San Francisco Food Tours to head up Healdsburg and Sonoma and fill up on crab. On the fun things to do in San Francisco is to pair some regional wines with local crab. On our San Francisco tours, we'll be trying some local oils, which goes great with the crab. I like olive oil with crab way more than butter.

Given that at the last crab feast, the winery finished dinner with a nice port wine, we'll be bring truffles from San Francisco tours to pair with the port wine.

Chinese New Year

One of the interesting concepts of Chinese New Year is the significance of oranges. The seeds help spread good luck for the coming year. On our San Francisco tours, that same concept is very important. I hope that by "spreading seeds", our guests will take the seeds from our tours and search local out artisans. On the the fun things to do in San Francisco and everywhere it to search our local artisans back home. A great resource is www.slowfood.com

Valentine's Day

We're getting ready for some special San Francisco Tours. One of the fun things to do in San Francisco is to celebrate Valentine's Day for most of February. On our San Francisco Tours, we've got some special surprises in North Beach\Little Italy during the day and also at night. Just in time, we've found some special foods, just in time for Valentine's Day.

New Wine Finds

Our day off from our San Francisco tours resulted in a couple new wine finds in the Russian River. Trying new wineries is definitely one of the fun things to do in San Francisco. In addition to finding some great new wines, we're seeing an exciting trend among wineries to grow using organic and substantial methods. If you have taken our San Francisco food tours, you might know that we always excited when we see more people embracing the idea of eating locally and seasonally. When you are out buying wines, check out labels for California wines. A number of the wineries are indicating on the labels about their enlightened growing methods.

Checking out the Wineries

When were not doing our San Francisco tours, we're off checking out wineries. One of the fun things to do in San Francisco, in addition our San Francisco Food Tours, is to head off the wine country. Now days, in addition to Sonoma and Napa, check out the Santa Cruz mountains for some excellent Petite Sirrahs and the Sierra Foothills are producing some really good ZInfandels. Our trick is go into wineries we don't recognize. Those are frequently the wineries that are producing excellent wines, just not enough to sell outside the wineries. If you find a new winery find, let us know and we'll let people know about it on our San Francisco Food Tours.

New Year, New Beginnings

We're about to start a new year with our San Francisco tours. One of the fun things to in San Francisco, as well as most areas is to go find new foods at the farmers market. In January, many of the wineries in our area have great events such as Winter Wineland in the Russian River in Sonoma (www.wineroad.com). We go every year. We spend the weekend finding new wineries. After finding a winery we really like, we'll ask them what is their favorite winery. We always end up with a couple great new wine finds.

Holiday Fun Things

I love San Francisco during the holidays. On our San Francisco tours, we get to see all the lights and smell all of the great holiday foods. One the fun things to do in San Francisco is to go down to the waterfront and see the lights on the Golden Gate Bridge.