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Watching.
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Sunshine.
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Snoozers.
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Ozomatli!
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Gnarls.
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(underwhelming) festival food.
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No plastic bottles! Brills.
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Off to the Taste Pavilions...
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Cocktail umbrella ceiling!
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Cheese line.
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Chocolate line.
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Wine line.
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Pizza line part 1.
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Pizza line part 2.
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Pizza line part 3.
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Short line here!
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Wild, wild rice.
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Teepee time.
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Time to find food -- Pavilion scraps were tasty but few.
First: art party at Silverman on Sutter.
Now *that's* a taste pavilion.
Roman-style artichoke; Happy Boy melon, mint + Israeli feta; potato-paprika torte; snap pea pod piped with ricotta-pea puree.
Dang.
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Bourbon and Branch: Aperol delight.
The final solution.
Night night!
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photos: TB
the cheese line ended up going down the aisle, out the door, and back to the front of the building. I skipped it. Reminiscent of Disneyland.
ReplyDeleteYes! A very well-crafted but amateurishly* operated affair. Big points for effort though!
ReplyDelete(*SO not a real word.)