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...

Except for the peppers And The German Capitalization that Crave menu looked gooood.

My initial reaction was "oooooooooooooh, nummy" but looking more closely, almost every dish has one ingredient I'm not wild about. (Hazelnuts in the gnocchi, shitake mushrooms in the mac'n'cheese...I'd be the annoying picky customer no matter what I ordered! Their brunch looks fab, though.)

... not even eggs?

I have recently discovered that it is eggs that are hurting me. I have removed them from my diet, and now, no more burning bellyaches.

I am reasonably certain, though, that if I asked for two scrambled eggs, they would come covered in fish eyeballs in a delicate parsnip sauce or some such shit.

Ah, fair enough. I was just wondering.

I myself am pretty much always the picky eater, disliking almost everything involved in sophisticated dining, so I know whereof you speak, Jessica. I end up with a lot of hamburgers.

disliking almost everything involved in sophisticated dining, so I know whereof you speak, Jessica.

Oh, see, I love "sophisticated dining," just not hazelnuts and shitake mushrooms. If they were pine nuts and morels, I'd be happy as a clam.

Favorite restaurant: Greekfest. Love a cuisine that gives the cucumber its due.