Our first time at Green’s
Shelly’s dad is at Kaiser SF preparing to have his bypass surgery, and so we headed across the Bay to see him this morning. After helping him hatch some escape plots, we decided to grab lunch before going home. Green’s Restaurant at Fort Mason has been at the top of Shelly’s restaurant wish list for a long time now, and we were only 3 miles away!
After I called the restaurant to get proper directions (Google Maps put me in “Upper Fort Mason” with no access to the place), we arrived just 45 minutes prior to the end of “brunch,” plenty of time I thought. I guess I should have taken their website seriously when it said “reservations are recommended,” because they were no longer seating parties greater than 2. At least we could still get food from their “Greens To Go” menu, and boy was it delicious…
Shelly and I each got a goat cheese, tomato and watercress sandwich that came on a (very sour) sourdough baguette and also split a bowl of Black Bean chili with peppers, cheese and creme fraiche. Lane got an Egg Salad sandwich that he mostly just ate the egg out of. We all ate some fruit salad that had strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, nectarines and apples. And, for dessert, we got a Vegan Date Bar!
Not far from the restaurant, we found a bench seated between two piers that looked out just West of Alcatraz. It was quite a view while we ate, and we even got a brief visit from a Sea Lion. Definitely a memorable meal.
After lunch, we walked down to the end of the pier on the right side of the photo, and got to see Alcatraz and the bottom half of the Golden Gate Bridge (the fog was heavy this afternoon). All that was fun, but the game of kick the can that we all played on the way back was likely Lane’s favorite part… 
