Due to the tremendous response we've gotten, we've decided to give RE: San Francisco site room to grow by moving it to a new, improved location:

http://www.ruggedelegantliving.com/sf/

Please re-set your bookmarks as all new posts will occur on the new site.

As part of the move we are also transitioning to a Moveable Type content management system, which will allow us to add more editors while providing better search and categorization capabilities.

Thank you your continued support. Growth is good.

-Tim
1:43:34 PM    

Union Street Festival -- June 7 & 8

Union Street Festival

The 27th Annual Union Street Festival is one of San Francisco's largest free art festivals. More than 100,000 attendees come from all over the Bay Area to enjoy the event. The festival features 200 artists, 20 gourmet food booths, live entertainment on two stages, bistro style cafes, spacious wine & beer gardens and a large family adventure area with children's activities and hands-on art projects.

Union Street -- Gough to Steiner -- 10am to 6pm
9:10:12 PM    

Great Resource: Take Transit Trip Planner

Jennifer had a lunch in Tiburon today and our car was in the shop. What to do?

After striking out on the rental car front, I turned to Google and found a great resource for planning a trip in the Bay Area via mass transit. It's called TakeTransit Trip Planner. Simply enter your starting point, destination and the system will provide you detailed directions to get you from Point A to Point B using mass transit.

Jennifer captured this shot from the ferry traveling in style from San Francisco to Tiburon. From the dock she was able to walk to the Tiburon Yacht Club. The first thing she said to me when I asked her how it went was "Boy, was that good for my soul. The salt air, the incredible views, the charming couple from Boston. All on the most magnificent sunny day. What a secret to be shared."

-Tim
6:24:23 PM    

San Franciso Chronicle:

Every year for the past decade The Chronicle's Food staff has selected a crop of young chefs who we think will soon be stars on the national stage. The group's alumni include chefs such as Michael Mina, Traci Des Jardins and Loretta Keller, whose talent, creativity and skills have put them at the top of the dining establishment.

We're confident this year's picks will do the same, in the process shaking up culinary expectations and setting trends across the country.

10:23:53 AM    

Minneapolis Star and Tribune

Great food cities and spectacular farmers markets go hand in hand. Everyone benefits.

Farmers prosper, and consumers and chefs gain access to fresh, affordable, locally raised foods, sparking the kind of satisfying, knowing-where-your-food-comes-from culinary culture that's sadly absent from so much of American life. Remarkable markets also enrich city living in a way that no number of publicly financed stadium-seating multiplexes could ever hope to emulate. This scenario is far from unreachable.

San Francisco, arguably the nation's most food-obsessed urban enclave, recently christened a year-round showcase worthy of its passionate love affair with food and drink. The Ferry Building Marketplace, an $90 million renovation of a tattered, 105-year-old Beaux Arts landmark, is a glittering new home for the city's largest farmers market, several restaurants and shops for more than three dozen of the Bay Area's finest owner-operated artisinal food producers.

11:26:01 AM    

San Francisco Chronicle:

The flesh of this hard-swimming Pacific native tastes wonderful, especially when it's caught wild, in season, close to home.

Now is the time. California's wild salmon season opened May 1 and the fishing fleet sped straight out to the Farallones, chasing reports of a monster school of glittering, fat kings gorging themselves on ocean critters.

I recommend indulging in the salmon at Ana Mandara, a high-end Vietnamese restaurant owned by Don Johnson. Make sure to ask for wild salmon, which is much higher in beneficial Omega-3 fatty acids. The atmosphere is wonderful and the fish is out of this world.

Eat right. Live better.

-Tim
1:57:11 PM    

San Francisco Bay Guardian:

On Bike to Work Day, San Francisco is poised for 20 new bike improvements.

For pro-bicycle activists, Bike to Work Day on May 15 is like a glimpse into a utopian future, one in which pedaling commuters outnumber those in cars.

12:39:36 AM    

Parnassus/Ashbury Heights Renovated Flat w/Huge Deeded South Garden

SanFrancisco MLS Photos:

$895,000 - Opportunity to live in a house-like lower flat with huge deeded south garden on a double lot. Perfect for those wanting the best of indoor/outdoor living!

Detached Queen Anne flat on an extra-wide lot with virtually every room overlooking the huge, deeded south garden. Beautiful gourmet kitchen opens to dining room. Double parlor living room w/fireplace, and second parlor as bedroom. Tall ceilings, beautiful finishes. Master bedroom plus small 3rd bedroom, 1 pkg in garage. Dog ok! 1st showing was Sunday 5/11/03.

Check out this gorgeous 3 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath house-like property listed by Sotheby's Janet Schindler.

If you are a San Francisco buyer looking for a great agent, contact Rugged Elegance Real Estate specialist, Kaycee Pomeroy!

- Jen
6:27:47 PM