A Day in San Francisco: Gourmet Chocolate Walking Tour

kagetsume was out here so we met up and headed down to San Francisco last Saturday! We hit up Gourmet Walks's 11 AM chocolate tour.

Nominally in getting there, I'd have opted to take BART, but since we wanted to visit the Japanese tea garden afterward, it seemed like a good idea to take Jared's rental car down, since he's much better at driving around strange locales than I. I made some quick spinach-egg scrambles for us to eat with muffins, then we scooted down to get there in time.

The tour group was about 6/8 women-- perhaps something I should have guessed in retrospect, but I was a bit surprised at the time. We began the tour with a quick introduction to chocolate, then went across the street, past an arts and craft festival (which we had perused a bit beforehand) to the Ferry Building Farmer's Market, where we began the sampling with Recchiuti. This set the tone for the rest of the tour-- we were visiting high-end chocolatiers, not chocolate-makers, and generally sampling their products, with plenty of time for buying any chocolates we desired.

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A Day in San Francisco: Japanese Tea Garden

Following the chocolate walking tour, we headed over to Golden Gate Park and into the Japanese tea garden! This one is going to be mostly pictures. It's really a small area but very pretty.

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