Foodbuzz Blogger Festival 2009

I don't even know where to start! The Foodbuzz Festival was this past weekend in San Francisco and I'm so glad I was able to go. I did mainly Foodbuzz related activities on Friday and Saturday evening, and Kyle and I spent the mornings and Sunday and Monday cramming in as much of the city as we could.

So let's dig in?

Friday evening I went to the cocktail reception on top of the Hotel Vitale. There was a great view and great cocktails.As soon as that was over we walked across the street to the Ferry Building for a San Francisco Street Food Fare. This was probably my favorite Foodbuzz activity of the weekend! So much local food to try and so many people to meet.

This was a raw flatbread that I really enjoyed. If it has avocado, you know it's going to be good.

A raw cheesecake that was so creamy. I love to cook my food, but this was so good I could learn to give raw foods a chance.

An oyster in Dallas? Ew. An oyster in San Francisco?
A little bit of delicious ocean in your mouth.

Hey Foodbuzz girl, I would love some chicharones!

So would Chrystal and Amir from The Duo Dishes. Look at his face, he is in fried pork skin heaven. So was I!

Crispy hand tossed pizza, and San Francisco beer. Life is good.

A beet salad with blue cheese. Colorful and flavorful.

This food stand had the longest line all night. Just look at that meat. Just read the description. Drool.

We tried tacos from a local taco stand. Everyone was waiting for the meat tacos and there were plenty of vegetarian tacos sitting out. You carnivores missed out, this was one of the best tacos I have ever had! It was black eyed peas, peppers, nopales and I topped it with a smokey salsa.

Don't forget dessert! They had delicious little cupcakes to try.

Steph from StephChows about to chow on a cupcake!

Saturday I skipped out on most of the morning activities and Kyle and I went to breakfast at this place called Jitters and Shakes.

It was a great hole in the wall, breakfast joint that served great food, great smoothies and great coffee.

We rode the bus there and walked the couple miles back to the hotel. It was a great way for me to build up my appetite for the tasting pavilion at the Metreon City View that I attended later on.

The tasting pavilion was nice and there was plenty of food to sample. I am sure I tried everything, including these savory little wild rice tarts with pomegranate arils on top.

The best part of this whole weekend? All the wine!

These were very refreshing ceviche bites.

You can write 'To Natalie' on that book, please!

A few hours later it was time for the dinner that I had been looking forward to the most. It was an 'outstanding in the field' meal (everyone is at one long table, sharing food family style).

This table was very long and wrapped around the entire Green Leaf warehouse. No pictures of the dinner, as lighting was weird... plus I was more interested in the wine, food and getting to know everyone that was seated around me.

Here is me with Kelly from Evil Shenanigans, who also lives in Dallas. Howdy!

Joy from Joy the Baker, yours truly, and Tracy from Shutterbean.

Me and Mardi from Eat, Live, Travel, Write.

I had a great time at the first annual Foodbuzz Blogger Festival and can't wait for year two. I ate at so many great local spots and will be blogging about them soon. I have around... ohh... 700 pictures to edit and go through before I do that.