My City By The Bay

Above is a video of the San Francisco Arts Commission Culture Wire program which represents the arts to include, ballet, music, dance, poetry and so much more.  I hope you enjoy the show.

Just like my Mom & Aunt’s home cooking.

I’ve eaten at Myconos Greek Restaurant many times and each time had great service and incredible food. The food here is authentic, traditional Greek food and is the closest thing to “home cookin” as you can get. Being of half Greek and half Italian decent, I appreciate authentic ethnic cuisine. Greek restaurants are few and far between in the city and of the few that are located in San Francisco I enjoy Myconos far and above the rest. This is the real deal.

They serve all the traditional favorites from mousaka, to pastitsio, to keftethes, dolmas and freshly prepared lamb, souvlaki and chicken dishes. The mousaka is flavored with just the right amount of spices & liiterally melts in your mouth - the way it should be. My favorites are the Keftethes (Greek meatballs) Pastitsio (Greek lasagne) and the dolmas (stuffed grapeleaves. The keftethes have just the right amount of mint and are not greasy as many are in different restaurants I’ve tried. The pastitsio is always cooked to perfection and the dolmas have that great lemon flavor. The prices are good. Recently we had the sampler platter for two and it was wonderful. The souvlaki was very tender to my surprise.

If you’re lucky sometimes on a weekend evening the cook will get out there and do some syrta, greek dancing, with the traditional breaking of the plates and all. Bottom line, great food, good prices and wonderful experience.  It is located in the lower nob hill area of the city on Polk Street near Sutter. You have to look for it as it is small, but quaint and authentic. The key word being authentic through and through.

For all of you tourists out there that would like to try this restaurant it is very easy to get there with public transportation.  If you have any questions about directions you can email me at jmcojo@gmail.com or go to 511.org and use the trip planner.

Prices: US$21-30  » Currency Converter
Phone: (415)775-7949
Address: 1431 Polk Street near Sutter
Website: http://www.sfmyconos.com

Birds, birds, they’re everywhere.  Along the Great Highway in San Francisco @ Ocean Beach is their home.  They play there, they hang out on the sand and wait for picnic scraps to become available for a little snack.  They perch on light-posts, they perch on traffic lights and they stand on the ocean walls posing for photos.  

The seagulls swing and sway across humid skies as if dancing to unheard tunes.  The crows hover and loom making their presence known with haunting cries.  The pigeons rummage and waddle eating anything in sight.

Crows have for the past few years become a regular fixture out in the Avenues along the beach.  You can hear their cries in the early morning hours and they normally congregate out along the Great Highway.  You can always find them together with seagulls, pigeons and blackbirds just frolicking along the foliage as if they are all having a party.  Many feed them along the path.  They bring joy to many though many don’t even notice they are there.

They, in their own little world make what is available their home.  We marvel at the fact they can use their wings to fly up and above and beyond anywhere or anything.  Yet we seldom see them.  We ignore them.  We fail to see that they are living creatures just like us.  They need those scraps of food to survive and they need those light posts and traffic lights in which to sleep.  They occupy this earth as do we and make the world a better place.

They are natural wonders as are all of us.