review: moss room

i had a couple of hours to kill between a team off-site at the california academy of sciences and the disappointing lecture hosted there, so i decided to check out the moss room, their swanky new restaurant hidden around the corner, through the museum cafe and down a flight of stairs.

those stairs... actually, it wasn't so much the stairs, it was the wall alongside the stairs. a wall completely covered in all kinds of moss. but not just moss. in with the moss were lichens and even a few orchids. and at the base of the wall, a make-shift stream encased in a stainless steel trough.

i want that wall.

of course it also didn't hurt that the staff were awesome (especially the brand new welsh bartender who was so taken aback by my reading material) and the food was fantastic. my dinner of black cod with heirloom cherry tomatoes made me want to cry it tasted so good. i really wanted to try one of the many desserts, but alas, the lecture called. in retrospect, however, i'm thinking the dessert would have been the more satisfying choice.