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Food Festival, part the second

After a breakfast of good eggs, great bacon and lousy service at Market Bar, J and I filled a few shopping bags at the Ferry Building Farmers’ Market and then headed to Berkeley. Specifically to the parking lot of J’s favorite wine merchant, Kermit Lynch, where he and Cafe Fanny were hosting Oyster Bliss XVII.
Lynch’s flyer had read:

Iced oysters of the half shell and the wines to go with. “Bring ‘em on,” in the words of the courageous warrior chief known as The Decider. But when we say bring ‘em on, we mean oysters and lofts of ‘em. And why not some hot little grilled Bordeaux-style sausages on the side? As for the crisp, cold, minerally, dry white wines that go with, leave that to me. I’ll be the decider.

The oysters were cold and sweet, the sausages (from Eccolo restaurant) hot and savory and the wines wonderful with both.

And although Cafe Fanny offered five or six different desserts, I knew instantly I’d select the same sweet I’d had at Oyster Bliss XVI: a wide wedge of strawberry-rhubarb galette. Perfection on a paper plate.
  

Note to Cafe Fanny: promise me that this galette will be back for Oyster Bliss XVIII. Thanks in advance.

Tags: Cafe Fanny, galette, Kermit Lynch, Oyster Bliss

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