But that day is not today.
However, the theme of the day appears to be small-plates restaurants. First, there was the glorious news that Cesar will be opening on Piedmont Avenue in the near future. If you don't know what Cesar is, it's a wonderful tapas restaurant in North Berkeley. OK, maybe "glorious" is too strong a word, but still, it's an exciting development.
Then, in the San Francisco Chronicle, there was an article about a new-to-the-Bay-Area trend in Zhou — jook served with a variety of interesting little side dishes like stir-fried peanuts and anchovies, or seaweed salad. The article also mentions two restaurants which specialize in these kinds of small plates. Alas, they are in the South Bay, but it may be worth an expedition.
Finally, in this week's East Bay Express comes a review of a new restaurant on 40th Street in Emeryville called Ferenzu which also sounds like something I've got to check out — and it has the added virtue of being ten minutes away.
Unrelated to the small-plates theme, there was a review today of Mangosteen, a restaurant in the Tenderloin that Michael and I stumbled upon a few weeks ago. It was also very good.
Darn it. Just ate dinner and now I'm hungry again.
