{"id":3220,"date":"2010-07-16T14:10:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2010-07-16T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T21:10:09","slug":"la-trappe-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2010\/07\/la-trappe-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"La Trappe Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I was down at Noisebridge<\/a> for their weekly Linux Discussion<\/a> meeting this week I met another local sysadmin who ended up having some great tips as far as beer in the city. That night I took advantage of one of his tips and MJ and I hopped on a bus down to La Trappe Cafe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In case I haven’t mentioned it enough in the past, I love Belgian beer, it was my first love as far as beer is concerned. In Philadelphia I loved Monk’s Cafe<\/a>, adored Eulogy Belgian Tavern<\/a>, still have dreams about the cheesesteak I had at The Abbaye<\/a> and was quite disappointed when I learned that ZoT closed down (their frites were a-ma-zing!). And getting to go to Brussels and spend two fantastic evenings at Delirium Cafe? Heaven.<\/p>\n

But San Francisco? Where are the Belgian beers? A Belgian cafe? Indeed!<\/p>\n

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First up was tap beers! They have 19 taps and had the Gentse Tripel on tap which I’d never tried before, so I started there. It was quite sweet and strong, a nice a nice example of a Belgian Tripel. I also had a few sips of the St Louis Premium Peche, which is quite sweet compared to the lambics I tend to enjoy, but the peach was enough to take some of the sweet edge off and make it drinkable for me.<\/p>\n

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We enjoyed a nice cheese plate, going with a soft french cheese and a nice old gouda, yum!<\/p>\n

I then hit the bottle list, which has over 400 beers, and selected the Ichtegem’s Grand Cru. It’s a lovely Flemish red, I’ll probably order more of these in the future!<\/p>\n

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And the food? What’s a good Belgian beer without some mussels and frites! Well… it’s still a good Belgian beer, but it’s just not the same<\/i>. Plus I was pretty disappointed at running out of time in Brussels and never getting my mussels and frites there, so it had been a while.<\/p>\n

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I went with the mussels with the “Creamy Pastis” described as Tomato, leek and fennel in a light pastis cream sauce<\/i>, which was quite good. And they make their own mayonnaise for the frites! So I got the ketchup (boring, I know!) and a delicious garlic mayonnaise, but I also quite enjoyed the wasabi mayo that MJ got with his frites.<\/p>\n

I also have to check out Monk’s Kettle<\/a> and City Beer Store<\/a> which were also mentioned at the meeting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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