Need San Francisco restaurant recommendation 8252

I used to pick up DH at the SF airport, driving from Kentfield (south of Petaluma by some miles) some 25 years ago. I cannot imagine what traffic must be at that time of day now; it was terrible then. A good alternative is to catch the bus at the airport to one of the hotels at Union Square and meet them there. No problem. Everybody wins.

A fond memory: Before I was married, I used to live in SF. One Saturday morning about 7:30 a.m. walking to the beauty shop thru the park there was only one person there, Peter Falk sketching. He gave me a great smile and a friendly Hello.

Just getting back from Baltimore for two days, last night we had a fabulous meal at Kali's Mezza. The best crab cakes I've ever had - wish I had the recipe. Here is what the two of us had: cod (sort of tempura'd) with garlic mashed potatoes, olives on the table, small asparagus grilled, Lamb chops; 3 small crab cakes, goat cheese with mushrooms wrapped with red roasted bell peppers, spanatopita. Dessert: Tiramasu; Baklava. The Baklava was in a pinwheel shape and like I've never had before. The tiramasu was made with kaluha instead of rum, better than I've ever had. Two pretty good glbuttes of red wine, one from Santorini $10 a glbutt; one from Madera $6.50 a glbutt.

We went again to our favorite gelato place in Baltimore Vacarro's. We also found an Italian grocery that had all products from Italy; I don't believe he carries US products. The owner is the one that recommended the restaurant, and the waiter sat us at the same table as the Italian grocery owner had set the night before; the service was excellent. We went back the next day to tell him about it and bought from him 4 bottles of wine, several cans and jars of San Marzano tomatoes, tuna, some sort of tuna eggs (yuk -- for DH). Found Ortiz Tuna at Whole Foods down the street from the Italian market.

All in all a good two days of wonderful food and food finds. I wish you the same in San Francisco. Dee Dee