Gobos Lunch Bunch 2009: 2009 Oct 14

2009 Oct 14 - South Pacific (SF)

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Today just three of the Lunch Bunch are headed to San Francisco via BART to see the musical South Pacific at the Golden Gate Theater. Just Elsa, Grandma and me.

Elsa arrives at my home this morning where the street is still wet from our first rain storm since this Spring.

My poor wet little Corolla

The Union Point restaurant on Middle River in the Delta along Hwy 4 on our way to Grandma's in Brentwood

From Grandma's home she will drive us to the Pittsburg BART station where we will continue on into San Francisco.

Grandma's car is the smaller white one, the other is hubbie's car

I have my Handicap Parking placard so Elsa saves a recently vacated space while Grandma goes to get her car which we had parked quite a bit further out.

Inside the BART car

Grandma wants to have Shrimp Paste Fried Rice at the Osha Noodle Café. But there are five other Osha restaurants in the City. So we pick the nearest one to a BART exit. It is in SOMA {South Of MArket street}.

Hey, no Shrimp Paste Fried Rice

There is NO Shrimp Paste Fried Rice on the Menu, but I ask the Hostess and she responds that they do serve Shrimp Paste Fried Rice so we take a table. This is a bit of an upscale place, but lunch looks like it will run about $20 each.

The SOMA {Second Street} Osha restaurant

Now the waiter takes his time in getting to us to take our order. I order our shared Appetizer then I order Grandma's Shrimp Paste Fried Rice and the waiter tells us that they don't serve it. Well, after asking one more time and getting the same response I ask him if the Noodle Shop serves it and he replies that they still do. So we finish our glasses of water and leave.

Now getting to the Osha Noodle Café is a bit of work. We get back onto BART and ride it for two more stops. Then it is an eight block uphill walk. Elsa and I barely make the walk.

The noodle shop is in the Tenderloin District where the Parking Lots charge $7 per day. The other downtown neighborhoods charge $24+ per day. So you can imagine it is not exactly in the high rent area.

Looking over the paper menu

They do have an $8.95 combination lunch special except I have the duck which adds an extra $2

The Combination comes either with soup or this nice little salad

Elsa has the Chicken in yellow curry with veggie crispy rolls. I had the Duck in yellow curry with curry puffs but messed up that photo.

Grandma with her Shrimp Paste Fried Rice which also has chicken and prawns in it and she also had a Papaya Salad

After lunch we have a six and a half block downhill walk to the Golden Gate Theater. But we stop along the way at a Greek hole-in-the-wall and get a piece of Baklava.

The lady in the unusual garb was not going to the theater, in fact just after I took this photo she turned right and crossed the other street

No photos of the Show are allowed, but here is the entrance to the Balcony and our cheap seats during the Intermission.

Intermission

South Pacific ends just a little before 5:00 PM and the Rush Hour. So we make a bee line to BART and only had a two minute wait and also found seats. Seats are good since we will be going all the way to the end of the line about an hours ride.

One of the other lines loading

Eastbound Highway 4 from the Pittsburg BART Station

By the time we drive to Brentwood it is past 6:30 PM and dinner time. So we stop at Harry's Hofbrau which is better known and signed as The Carvery. Hofbrau's are a dying breed, but I love them. And the Brentwood location is so new that it is not even listed on their web site.

The cashier's station

The Senior Dinner is a "steal" especially when Elsa and I found out that the dressing did not count as our hot side dish. I got the turkey with dressing, mashed potatoes and grilled vegetables; a diet coke and dish of ice cream for $8.74 plus sales tax.