 |  San FranciscoRestaurant Gary DankoWho: Hot Celebs... What: Restaurant Gary Danko... When: Restaurant Gary Danko is one of the most popular dining destinations in San Francisco, so a reservation is highly recommended any night of the week. If youre unable to obtain a reservation, make your way to the first-come, first-serve bar, which serves the same award-wining cuisine as the main dining room.... Where: 800 North Point Street San Francisco, CA 94109
San Francisco, California
94109
415.749.2060
Why: Offering a fusion of both modern and classic cuisine, in a sophisticated five star setting, Restaurant Gary Danko is the place to visit if you need to impress or just rub shoulders with the bay areas poshest residents. The cosmopolitan feel of the restaurant provides a romantic and elegant ambiance. Gary Danko not only boasts an award-winning chef, it also serves a uniquely seasonal three to five course prix fixe menu nightly. Known for the best dining in the city, Gary Danko also serves up a memorable cheese and dessert course including a selection of over 20 local and imported cheeses served table side, infamous chocolate soufflés, and table side prepared cherries flambé. Restaurant Gary Danko is the place to go if you enjoy food and sophisticated company, just make sure to break open your piggy bank, as the restaurant has recently been voted the best place to spend three figures in San Francisco....  |
 Sweet SoundsCathy DaveyAccording to Cathy Davey, the mercurial Irish singer and songwriter of dreamtime pop music, she was destined to create little else but art and music. She has not, she maintains, the memory for doing anything else. What she means is that from an early age she was unable (or, possibly, unwilling) to enter into conventional modes of expression. Although her parents are creative types (her mother is a sculptor, her father a musician/composer), its likely you wont find Cathy egoistically extolling the virtues of the artistes life. Such a carry-on was sucked out of her many years ago due to her dyslexia and more recently by her hard won common sense.
I was always away with the fairies when I was a kid, she recalls, and I would never engage with people. I couldnt talk in class, and there were all these things that would lead me to doing something else I was better at. I was also secure enough within myself that I wouldnt bother learning anything I wasn't good at. Perhaps thats what spurs people on to achieve things academically - maybe thats what prevented me from embarking on the academic life. Im sure theres more to it than that, but thats how I explain it.
Davey explains things very well and very coherently. She fully admits that the years spent going to school and growing up were not the easiest for her or her parents. She would bunk off classes at school, for instance (in particular, history), and sneak off to the music room, where shed spend most of the day playing piano. Sometimes she would remove herself from school completely and spend the time at home drawing ...  |  |
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