I don't think I have a favorite restaurant, due to not eating out much and hating to answer any question that asks my favorite anything. But now I want to go eat tapas.

Crave.

That gave me a double-take -- there's a Crave in my neighborhood too.

I am Jesse.

libkitty, nope, I haven't!

I am day-after-a-migrainey today, which means I am easily depressed, and I said something stupid on a company-wide mailing list, and people are mailing me saying how bad I made them feel (I misestimated engineering salaries at $100K, and was reminded that this is (A) much too high for new engineers and (B) not everybody is an engineer) and now I feel like whale dung.

The amusing thing was that I was defending the importance of defending massage therapists and waiters because no, they aren't well-paid.

That gave me a double-take -- there's a Crave in my neighborhood too.

Heh. I'll have to tell the owner of Seattle's Crave. She'll be amused by it.

What did you like there?

Everything was fantabulous. I ended up getting the rack of lamb one time because they were out of the cheaper things that were interesting, and OMGYum! The rice (Jasmine saffron) was the best I had ever had. I tasted a friend's rose petal ice cream, and it, too, was teh yum!

libkitty, nope, I haven't!

You really should. I love the whole CD. You can hear it at Amazon: [link]

Too many favorites to pick just one.

Favorite fancy appetizer: Shiitake mushroom dumplings in mushroom sauce at Eos, about four blocks from Chez Zmayhem in San Francisco. Dark, heavy, intense, earthy, unbelievably savory.

Favorite un-fancy appetizer: Nachos at Montero's, corner of Solano and San Pablo in Albany (they also have a sister taqueria in the Andronico's shopping center just off University and Sacramento in Berkeley). Homemade tortilla chips, homemade salsa, actual freshly-shredded cheese instead of cheesy sauce glop. So, so good.

Favorite breakfast/brunch: Anything at Commander's Palace, either NOLA or Vegas; both are amazing.

Favorite breakfast side: Hash browns at the Pork Store Cafe in SF.

Favorite sick-person food: Vegetarian Vietnamese hot and sour soup at Mai's on Clement Street in SF. Very thin, fragrant broth, very very different from Chinese hot and sour, huge chunks of tomato and pineapple and broth-soaked tofu cubes and savory and tangy and sinus-penetrating and mmmmm. Cilantro-haters will loathe it, but if cilantro's okay by you then when you have a cold this is like chicken soup turned up to 11.

Miscellaneous favorite: Pain perdu (baguette split in half and toasted, then smeared with goat cheese and sprinkled with roasted red pepper slices and fresh basil) and a bowl of coffee at La Notte, on Shattuck in Berkeley.

There isn't anything on the Crave menu I would put in my mouth unless it would prevent someone from dying.

I'll go to BK with msbelle.

Hmm. Maybe S&S Deli? Ooh, possibly Ana's Taqueria.

Nothing? I mean, nothing on it was really pinging me as ooh, I totally want that, but... not even eggs?

Oh, I take it back. Chai flan. Mmmmm...