SF's De Young Museum and Green's Restaurant on the Luckiest Day of the Year

(:)(:)(:)(:) for Golden Gate Park's newly refurbished De Young Museum. Gorgeous building, eclectic but huge collection. Admission is expensive, spring for the audio tour and plan to stay a while. Don't miss the Bay Area Beat room or the post abstract modernists or whatever they're called. Also very powerful is a piece comprised entirely of the charred remains of one of the Southern Black Baptist churches that were fire-bombed. Take a trip to the top of the tower for a spectacular view of the city.

(:)(:)(:) for a forgettable meal at Green's Restaurant. At $48 prix fixe menu, this famous vegetarian restaurant delivered not one memorable dish (and we tasted virtually everything on the menu. However the atmosphere and the setting (right on the water at sunset in the Marina, reconditioned army barracks) are unforgettable. Outside our window as we were seated, "hello, I'm Tom, I'll be your blue heron this evening."

The company, conversation, wine and food were all tasty and enjoyable too.