Foggy sunset

After the game on Sunday afternoon, I walked all the way along the Embarcadero up to Fisherman's Wharf, with dinner booked at McCormick & Kuleto's for 7.15pm as that would mean I could sit and watch the beautiful sunset whilst eating.

Despite the sunny day it had been, the fog rolled in in the late afternoon.

So instead of a glorious sunset, it was mostly grey.

It wasn't actually cold like it can be when that happens, but it was quite disappointing all the same.

I'm sure I've had the same waitress at M&K before - Larissa is from somewhere in eastern Europe, and I remember her because she looks so much like Annette Badland.

I did appreciate the seating arrangements though. Usually, as a single diner, I'm placed in the second row of tables, slightly raised, but back from the window to allow the better views for the groups of 4 or more.  However, this time, they had opened up the private dining room area so that everybody could have a table by the window.

It's just a shame about the fog.

After dinner, I went around the corner to the Ghirardelli chocolate shop for dessert instead of having any of the restaurant's puddings.

They appear to have learnt to not shut up shop too early: they seem to continue to be open and serving their whole range of sundaes until midnight now, instead of packing up at 10pm.  

It was really busy, even later in the evening, with very few empty tables - and they have quite a lot of tables available!

After that, it was starting to get a bit colder and late, so I went back to my hotel on the cable car.

The cable car I rode in - at Powell St

Since it was chilly, I decided I wanted to sit inside.

It is irritating that they don't run the cable cars more frequently than they do later in the evenings.  We were standing around for half an hour for it to run.

I'm sure they'd sell more tickets if they could take more people - at $9 a journey that could be quite a money spinner. 

It was really packed, which was quite uncomfortable really, and for all of us sitting inside, you couldn't see the views because of all the people standing in front of you.