On the way to our first golf outing at the Peacock Gap Golf Course in San Rafael, California, we stopped at a wonderful little taqueria in town called Taqueria San Jose, 615 4th Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 415-455-0999. I got a chicken taco with onion and cilantro ($2.00) along with a side of rice and beans ($2.50). Great, great taco - a little greasy but really tasty. The beans and rice were typical and yummy but needed a touch of spice. Adding their red salsa did the job nicely. Stan had a combo plate with two chicken tacos with rice, beans and a small salad for $6.95. All in all, a great neighborhood place with very tasty chicken tacos.
OK, here we go! We are very excited and ready for golf course Number One! Hope springs eternal for a a good game. Here's the link for the course: Peacock Gap Golf Course
A view of the practice putting green and driving range. Looks innocent enough.
Perhaps if I had borrowed a stone to carry, I would have had better luck!
Still having fun on the 9th hole! Peacock Gap is a very pretty course. We, I mean I, had a bit of trouble with the water holes. They give all the holes cute little names. After the scores I was racking up, I wasn't really in the frame of mind to appreciate how clever they were.
Here we are on the 16th hole. What form! Stan made a par (yay!). I lost two balls in the water. Nuff said.
Ugh! OK, so overall we didn't do so well but we did have a great time. I will be posting our scores to chronicle our progress or lack thereof. Stan beat me by two strokes. Today's scores: Stan 113, Annette 115.
After that dismal performance, I needed a distraction so our next stop was San Francisco, where we visited a restaurant we've been to several times, Cioppino's, 400 Jefferson Street 415-775-9311. We've been there in the summer and sat outside for lunch, but the fog rolled in making it an inside kind of evening. It's right near Fisherman's Wharf, across the street from the Cannery. You walk inside and it smells oh so good.
They put a large basket of warm, crusty bread on the table when you sit down, which is difficult to resist no matter what kind of diet you're on. Stan didn't resist at all and ate the entire basketful. He's on the "Let's Just Talk About It" diet. I ordered their flights of red wine for $9.50. The menu said three 2-ounce pours, but it looked like they poured much more than that. They served a 2008 Schug Pinot Noir (Sonoma Coast), a 2006 Franciscan Merlot (Napa Valley) and a 2007 Rutherford Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley). The cab was my favorite. Stan drank most of the pinot.
Stan got a cup of clam chowder ($4.95), which he really liked and I thought was OK. We shared a small Caesar which was pretty good ($6.95); the dressing was tangy, they didn't overdress it, and there were large pieces of shaved Parmesan cheese on top of the salad. Our main courses were spaghetti and meatballs for Stan ($13.95), which rated another thumbs-up from him, and seafood risotto ($21.95) for me. I loved the rice; it had such a great flavor and sauce milanese, and it was tossed with fresh tomatoes, garlic and scallions. There were plenty of shrimp and scallops and they were prepared pretty well, but the mussels were either dried out or undercooked. Not exactly what I had hoped for, but it didn't ruin my meal.
We had hoped to make a trip over to Ghirardelli Square for a hot fudge sundae, but good sense prevailed and we passed on it. We'll stay somewhere local tonight and make our way down to Paso Robles tomorrow for another round of golf, this time at Hunter Ranch Golf Course. Rain is in the forecast. We'll keep our fingers crossed.
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