San Francisco Day 2

Sea Food Stew at The Ferry Building
Originally uploaded by BForrer

Our second day in San Francisco was a full one. After our Starbucks breakfast of coffee and chocolate croissants, we had to go over to the Moscone Center and set up the Main Street Cupcakes both for the show. It was a little time consuming, but we had to get it done so we could get a quick lunch and make our 1:50 p.m. tour of Alcatraz.

We finished up the set up and took a cab down to Pier 39, where we stopped by one of the many touristy Clam Chowder in a bread bowl spots. I ordered the Seafood Chowder which was crab and shrimp in a tomato base and a Anchor Steam. Sarah ordered Classic Clam Chowder. Both were good, not the best I've had, but good. I actually wanted to order a ton of fried seafood that they had, but did not.

After lunch, we walked to the Ferry building, where we planned to eat that night, to check it out. Being that it was lunch time, the Ferry Building was very busy. I got to see a custom Sycip Cargo bike,which was really cool. We figured we would definitely find some good eats there, so we headed back to Pier 33 to catch our ferry to Alcatarz.

Alcatraz was fun, the temperature was in the high 50's so being out on the open water got a little chilly, but it beat being in the 20's back in Ohio. I always got the feeling Alcatraz was a lot bigger, but the actual prison is pretty small, but you get a great view of the city! Just what you want in a prison! We were on the island for a good 2 hours.

After we got back to the mainland, we were starving, believe it or not, so we took a pedi-cab back to the Ferry Building for dinner.

We decided on the fresh seafood bar for dinner. I had the seafood stew which had, crab, shrimp, scallops, clams, and mussels. I washed that all down with a frosty Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Sarah had a salad and a big bowl of clams. After dinner, we walked back to the hotel, but need desert, so we stopped at a creperie and had some Nutella and banana crepe. I also got excited to see they had New Belgium Ranger IPA on tap, but was let down because it was empty:( so I had a Fat Tire instead.