Grub Crawl has teamed up with Club Dine In! for this special progressive dining experience in the Cow Hollow neighborhood of San Francisco! This ticket gets you exclusive entrance and great grub at three restaurants. Each restaurant will be showcasing a special Club Dine In! Grub Crawl menu. Starters will be served at Marengo on Union, entrees will be served at Gamine, and desserts will be served at American Cupcake. The restaurants are close together, so we will be walking ("crawling") from restaurant to restaurant.
Eat at American Cupcake and you'll feel like a kid in a candy store, but it's not just about cupcakes. The Marina-based restaurant serves all-American comfort food like waffle fries, mac 'n' cheese, hot dogs, and Tater Tots, along with its amazingly sweet confections. You can watch your cotton candy as it's spun on-site, or go for a cupcake topped with bubblegum drops.
Dessert
(One gigantically delicious dessert split between everyone)
The Mad Tea Party for tables with big appetites! cupcakes loaded with ice cream, frosting, sprinkles,
banana, chocolate, caramel + strawberry sauces
This specific dessert was featured on the Cooking Channel!!!
For more information on the other two courses and to purchase tickets, visit the event's eventbrite site.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (PT)
Start at Marengo
1980 Union Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
Comments
Other recent MS patients who have had Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation (ASCT), or stem cell therapy have posted videos and comments on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFQr2eqm3Cg.
Dr. Avneesh Gupte, the Neurosurgeon at Noble Hospital performing the procedure has been encouraged by results in Cerebral Palsy patients as well. “We are fortunate to be able to offer the treatment because not every hospital is able to perform these types of transplants. You must have the specialized medical equipment and specially trained doctors and nurses”. With regard to MS patients, “We are cautious, but nevertheless excited by what patients are telling us. Suffice to say that the few patients who have had the therapy through us are noticing recovery of neuro deficits beyond what the venous angioplasty only should account for”.
Dr. Unmesh of Noble continues: “These are early days and certainly all evidence that the combination of liberation and stem cell therapies working together at this point is anecdotal. However I am not aware of other medical facilities in the world that offer the synthesis of both to MS patients on an approved basis and it is indeed a rare opportunity for MS patients to take advantage of a treatment that is quite possibly unique in the world”.
Autologous stem cell transplantation is a procedure by which blood-forming stem cells are removed, and later injected back into the patient. All stem cells are taken from the patient themselves and cultured for later injection. In the case of a bone marrow transplant, the HSC are typically removed from the Pelvis through a large needle that can reach into the bone. The technique is referred to as a bone marrow harvest and is performed under a general anesthesia. The incidence of patients experiencing rejection is rare due to the donor and recipient being the same individual.This remains the only approved method of the SCT therapy.