I must conquer sake similarly.

I've just gotten used to it, but Mr. Jane and our friend S. love doing sake bombs. The place where we go is really nice about it too. They do the ones where you balance the sake above the beer with chopsticks then pound on the table to drop it. They always ask, and always clean up after.

This is our place, Teppo [link] My favorite thing there is the bacon wrapped grilled tomato kabob appetizer thingy.

I wanna play! I wanna play!

In general, I hate restaurant staff already "knowing" what I want, but honestly, I always want hot tea here and the busboy has sometimes headed towards us with our drinks before we've had a chance to sit down.

He's cool. He gets to do that.

Looking at our sushi place on their "Friends of Teppo" it seems George Clooney is a friend of Teppo. I am now (probably insufficiently though) mortified that we sit in the back and behave like it's the pub down the street (even though it kinda is).

ETA: That place looks cool, ita

All the comparative sushi talk is making me hungry. Also, making me wonder what it would take for the restaurant industry to finally fucking give up the damned noisy flash brochureware sites.

Also, making me wonder what it would take for the restaurant industry to finally fucking give up the damned noisy flash brochureware sites.

Heh. I have no sound card here at work, and somehow I just knew...

I am now (probably insufficiently though) mortified that we sit in the back and behave like it's the pub down the street (even though it kinda is).

See, I think the Clooneyness makes it even cooler to behave like it's the local. As long as you behave well at the local, but being in the business, I'm sure you do.

Yeah, laughing too hard and the saki bombs are probably the worst of it (and again, we ask and clean up after ourselves). We also smoke out back with the kitchen staff.

Heh. I have no sound card here at work, and somehow I just knew...

Sound muted here, myself...

We've seen John Cusack and Leonard Roberts (though not together) at our place, although mostly we're too heads down to notice. John Cusack looked startlingly awful. Not a reality to which I needed to be exposed.

I'd trade them both in a heartbeat for George Clooney, even though I'm always coming straight from krav and dressed the part.

I have no sound card here at work, and somehow I just knew...

I'm quick with the mute button on the keyboard, so it's usually only a brief distraction. But still -- you click on a restaurant link, and you just know that there's a far greater than average chance that there will be sound, and a flash page that takes way too long, with either no skip intro link or a skip intro link that doesn't appear until after the stupid intro, and then pretty much the same stuff inside (dark background, swellegant low-light mood photos, menu, directions, "about" page with rambly ghost-written stuff...) It's kinda funny, as long as I remember to mute.