I’m still sad that the Foodbuzz Festival is over. I had wanted to go to the Ferry Building with the gang, but we didn’t have any extra time on Saturday morning. So I convinced Ashley to come with me this past Saturday and we had a blast eating and photographing our way through the Ferry Building. It is tied with the Presidio as being my favorite part of San Francisco.

This is Ashley and me at Foodbuzz enjoying some gin. We’re both gin fans, by the way, she more than I though.

It all started out with a BART ride into the city. While not the most glamorous mode of transportation — very much the opposite, in fact — it is more fun when you try to get artsy, err, BARTSY photos with Instagram. I’m a little bummed that we forgot to take pictures of us fist pumping. Next time, for sure.

I’m not a huge coffee fan, but after all the raving over Blue Bottle I decided to have some. The verdict? My cappuccino was great,  I’m not sure that I am enough of an expert to say if it was better than something else. Maybe I should have ordered my usual mocha to pass judgement. Again, next time.

You can’t go wrong with a breakfast sando, which was fried egg, bacon and cheese on an awesome roll. The view wasn’t shabby, either.

As we meandered through the farmers market, we found these flavored sugars. I remembered these from the last time I went. So interesting! I liked the lemon verbana flavor the best.

We were glad to stumble upon the Frog Hollow Farm stand to find their amazing pears. Sure, they’re stinkin’ expensive, but when in Rome…

Have you heard of a meat cone? You know, different meats in a snack-sized cone? Well, now you do. Didn’t eat these myself and don’t think I really want to.

This contraption stopped us — and a few other gals — dead in our tracks. This guy had a half of a huge wheel of cheese and held it under a heater, where it would get nice and bubbly. He then scraped it off with a knife onto some toast. A-maz-ing. I need one of these at home.

I was excited to stop by Miette for some macarons, since they’re famous now and Ashley and I didn’t get any macarons at Foodbuzz (not that I’m bitter … OK I totally am). The hazelnut flavor was just OK, the chocolate lavendar was far superior. Yet, these were really chewy. Aren’t macarons supposed to be light and airy, and a bit more crunchy? Jillian definitely wins this battle of adorable French confections, in both the flavor fun and overall quality categories.

And, just for fun, I found what a I want for Christmas:

Ignore my apparent buckteeth…

I had so much fun and can’t wait to go back! What did you all do this weekend?