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April 24, 2009

San Francisco Restaurant Reviews for the RSA Conference

The RSA Conference organizers asked me to write a restaurant review column for their show daily -- distributed only electronically. I called my column "The Dining Cryptographer." Here are links to them. I reviewed two restaurants each day: one walking distance from Moscone Center, and one a taxi ride away.

Posted on April 24, 2009 at 2:46 PM • 18 Comments

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This is starting to remind me of Takedown, which should perhaps more accurately be titled "take away". ;)

Posted by: Section9-Bateau at April 24, 2009 3:18 PM

> I called my column "The Dining Cryptographer."

Which begs the question: Who paid for dinner?

Posted by: Ian Mason at April 24, 2009 3:25 PM

I found the squid!

Ian:

It doesn't "beg the question". Begging the question is a technial term used in formal debate.

Perhaps you mean to "raise the question".

Posted by: BobW at April 24, 2009 3:30 PM

And you got your Friday Squid Blogging cunningly hidden inside your review!

Posted by: Leto at April 24, 2009 3:41 PM

"And you got your Friday Squid Blogging cunningly hidden inside your review!"

Steganography?

Posted by: Rich Wilson at April 24, 2009 3:59 PM

Begtard!

Posted by: Jess at April 24, 2009 4:10 PM

I was expecting to learn which restaurants allowed payment at the register and which required you to relinquish your credit card while the server disappeared out of site to process the transaction. I'd expect that to be just as important as the food and decor to a cryptographer!

Posted by: Nugget at April 24, 2009 4:18 PM

I had written a guide for MacWorld attendees, it is also relevant for RSA:
http://www.majid.info/mylos/weblog/2008/01/...

Posted by: Fazal Majid at April 24, 2009 4:23 PM

Hmm. There's not enough squid in this for a Friday posting. Here's some really hard core squid material from rathergood.com:

http://www.rathergood.com/nazi_squid

Posted by: Irreverence at April 24, 2009 4:25 PM

Some squidiness happened upon earlier: Petrified squid at http://www.dailycoyote.net/?p=942

@Bob, if you're going to be a prescriptivist pedant you'd better learn to spell "technial" (sic) correctly.

Actually, I'd argue that "begs the question" entered the vernacular some many years ago and is used considerably more often in this sense than in the narrow technical one. Language changes and one must move on; go on, split an infinitive, it'll make you feel good.

Posted by: Ian Mason at April 24, 2009 5:40 PM

If you go to a conference or user group meeting where you expect to go out to eat afterward, bring small bills. Who wants to be a table of 8 nerds with just credit cards and $20s.

Posted by: Don Marti at April 24, 2009 5:43 PM

3 cheers for the thirsty bear! One of my favorite places to relax after a long day of dealing with the sales department. Also its worth mentioning that the 'W' Hotel has (or at least used too) the best calimari in town. Cheers!

Posted by: cmos at April 24, 2009 6:20 PM

I don't understand Netties. Seems like a tourist trap to me. Swan too. Why come all the way to San Francisco to sit in a spot that pretends to be in New England with Boston clam chowder? If you want a taste of San Francisco go to places that emphasize the Pacific cuisine like Zuni, Anchor or even Hog Island. Yank Sing is good for downtown, but I would not call it the best dim sum in the city.

Posted by: Davi Ottenheimer at April 24, 2009 8:19 PM

Ahhh, trips to SF. I used to consult in SF when I lived in Palo Alto, and have many fond memories of eating my way across the city. Then, when I was living in Boston, I used to try and schedule at least 2 conferences a year in SF just to try some new restaurants (and to visit my daughter in Sacramento, of course).

Posted by: rubberman at April 24, 2009 9:43 PM

I work a couple of blocks away from Piperade.

Posted by: Nick Lancaster at April 25, 2009 1:14 AM

thos sounds like the old "dining philosophers problem," only you get two forks!

Posted by: David Heath at April 26, 2009 2:57 AM

Cool, I remember the Minicon dining guide you did several years ago...

Posted by: kaszeta at April 27, 2009 5:32 AM

An article in Wikipedia doesn't make it so.

If meanings don't at least resist
change people can't communicate.

Posted by: BobW at May 1, 2009 11:43 AM

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