Lunch in San Francisco.

Background.

My daughter, Gabriella and her husband Morgan, live in San Francisco so once every summer Patti and I make the pilgrimage to “Bagdad by the Bay” to visit with them.
We usually drive to their house and go out to lunch from there.This time we decided to drive to Marin County and catch the ferry from Larkspur to the city.
They will meet us at the Ferry Building and we will go to lunch at a Spanish restaurant near there.

The Trip.

The drive to Larkspur was easy with little traffic. Of course being Sunday it is no surprise. We arrived at the ferry terminal with time to spare.

It took us about 10 minutes to figure out the ticket machine but we managed to get two round trip senior tickets and boarded the ferry.

At first we sat in the stern (back) outside.

This is the view from the stern while we waited to depart.

 
Here, the ferry is backing away from the terminal.

Once it is out in Drakes Bay it turns around and makes way for the city.

When the ferry gets out of Drakes Bay the pilot punches it and we haul ass across San Francisco Bay.

This is the wake.

We pass the Richmond San Rafael Bridge.
The bridge is extremely long so it is not easy to photograph the whole thing

To the west, we can see the Golden Gate Bridge and the many sailboats in the bay.

Another long bridge is the Bay Bridge. This is only part of the western span.

After about 30 minutes we pulled into the dock at the Ferry Building. Patti and I disembarked and walked through the building to the street where Patti called Gabriella on her cell.

Lunch with Gabriella and Morgan.

In a few minutes Gabriella joined us. We stood around visiting and waiting for Morgan to find a parking spot. Morgan called and said he would meet us at the restaurant.
We walked just down the street for about five minutes to the “Coqueta” Tapas Bar. It is at the end of a bunch of buildings and has a view of the bay.

Here is an interior shot.

Gabriella and Morgan.

The Food.

Tapas are basically finger food, little bits of this and that.
We had Octopus that was perfectly cooked and seasoned. Prawns in a black garlic sauce that was fantastic, we asked for extra bread so we could sop up the sauce. There were cold meats and Spanish cheeses, Spanish style olives, some roasted sweet green peppers with strips of Spanish ham, there were some awesome little meat balls with a cherry salsa toping.
The dessert was wonderful.  It was a very light chocolate moose with chocolate brownies imbedded in it.
I don’t even remember the rest of the stuff we had but it was all excellent. We ate, drank and visited for two hours.
What a nice way to have lunch.
Unfortunately we were so involved in enjoying lunch that we didn’t take any pictures of the food. It was nicely presented.

Time to Go.

Around 3:00 Morgan had some business to take care of so we said good by to Morgan and walked back to the ferry building with Gabriella. We had a little time so we sat on some benches and watched people and visited until it was time to get on the ferry and head for home.
Gabriella said she would just hop on a train that will take her to with in a block of her house.
Taking the ferry to the city is a nice way to go. You don’t have to drive in the city traffic and you don’t have to try and find parking. It will be even nicer when they get the smart train all the way to Larkspur. Then you won’t have to drive at all.
Just pay the money.

Okay, that was our lunch in San Francisco with Gabriella and Morgan. The food was great the company was excellent and the weather was perfect.