Sprinklesmobile & ad hoc

Hello world =)  This is my first food entry.

Last Monday two important things happened!

1)  The Sprinklesmobile came to downtown SF, at the Justin Herman Plaza.  It usually resides in Beverly Hills, where the Sprinkles cupcakes HQ is located, but it came up to the bay area to support the SF food bank by donating all its profit from delicious cupcakes. They had three flavors - red velvet, egg nog and peppermint...yumm!

After, I headed to the east bay, met up with my boyfriend, and we drove off to Yountville to eat at ad hoc and try the infamous fried chicken.  My boyfriend and I had been anticipating this fried chicken for a very long time, ever since last time we went to the restaurnt in September and the waiter told us that fried chicken was the most popular among customers, and the only item that stays the same every other week.

Menu 12/14/09

Winter Squash & Barley Salad - baby dandelion greens, spiced pecans, wild mushrooms, roasted onion and speck ham vinaigrette

Buttermilk Fried Chicken - marble potatoes, sauteed radicchio, k & j orchard apples, blue lake beans, meyer lemon gremolata

Jasper Hill Dairy's Hazen Blue - marshall's farm wildfarm honey palladin toast

Duo of Cupcakes - red velvet with cream cheese frosting, devil's food with chocolate frosting

• Barley salad - pretty good.  I usually don't eat barley or really care for it, but this salad really surprised me in how well it could taste.
• Fried chicken - excellent!  What I liked about the chicken was 1) It was so tender, 2) The crispy-ness was perfect, and went well with the tender chicken.
• Cheese - I don't like cheese.  I'm lactose.  My bf said it was delish though.
• Cupcakes - these were alright.  Best part was the cream cheese frosting on the red velvet.  Didn't care for the cake part much.

But overall, a great meal!!!  We will definitely be going back...but to try something else, not fried chicken again.