Team Hollowell: Giants vs. Cardinals + NOPA

I flew in on Friday night and Tripp met me in the lobby after he had been to the Giants vs. Cardinals game. This was his two worlds colliding - the Giants who he has come to love since living here and the Cardinals... his favorite team growing up.

Tripp hadn't been feeling good the last few days before I got here :( Flu-ish like symptoms, sore throat, etc... but he wasn't going to miss these games. He slept in on Saturday morning until ~10:30. I had already been up for 2 hours - usually it's the opposite! We headed to the game around noon and spent the day at AT&T park.

Walking to the field from our apt. I want to try this restaurant and love that they always throw up this sign every game day.

Tripp knows that if he wants me to go to a baseball game and enjoy it - I need a good seat in the sun :) CHECK CHECK!

We wore red today for the Cardinals - usually it's orange and black!

Walking out of the stadium and stopped to check out all of these lovely folks on the water.. one of our bucket list items was to rent kayaks and hang outside the stadium. It looks so fun!

There are people swimming in the water!

Back together in the city by the bay :)

I headed to shop a bit after the game and Tripp rested in the apt. We had dinner reservations at 9:45pm. Those are the latest reservations we've had outside of New Years Eve one year ha! It was the only time to get into this place, so we said #yolo - let's do it.

This was standing on our balcony BEFORE going to dinner. Pretty moon!

NOPA. You have to book reservations a month out in advance or you can try to walk-in and likely have a 2 hour wait.

The restaurant is great inside - wood beams in the ceiling, mirrors on the wall, nice bar area, wood tables. We sat upstairs so we could look out on the full restaurant.

My boo. He was feeling much better, so that's why we decided to go to dinner.

The kitchen - all open.

We started with warm goat cheese, fresh fruit and crostinis. SO YUMMY. I want to recreate this in the future.

Wine, cheese and fruit - yes please.

I had the country pork chop and Tripp got the famous burger. It got hot inside once we started eating and then Tripp started sweating... and I didn't feel too great either. So we left about an hour after being there. It was very strange - we got back to the apt and didn't even feel like we had been to dinner! Hard to explain, but we were on the same page :)

Overall - loved the environment and our appetizer. The food was good. Service was ok. Would definitely come back though - we blame ourselves more than NOPA.