ATTENTION SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENTS

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My friend sooz has a problem. She needs to find a restaurant for dinner in San Francisco. The issue is the bizarre set of conditions she has to fulfill.

The good part is that she has a pretty good budget, so they can go to a nice place. However, here are the restrictions:

1. This place must be vegetarian-friendly, but not entirely vegetarian, because some people will object to a lack of dead meat.
   
   
2. A cheese-based cuisine won't work.
   
   
3. It has to be in the city; East Bay and suburbs will also fail.
   
   
4. Casual clothing must be okay.

To me it looks like that nightmare dinner that inevitably arrives at a chain restaurant. A little help?

Comments

[scythrop.livejournal.com]

Hello Richmonder!

Can I just say that [hyperbole alert] it is the most disappointing thing in the entire world to grow up with Zed's/Red Sea/et al. in "the big city" just two hours away, and then move away and realize it was D.C.-specific! Sad.

[dmlaenker.livejournal.com]

Are you also in Richmond? Have you been to the Nile Cafe? It's on Laurel between Broad and Grace and it is amazing. Better than any Ethiopian I've had in DC so far.

[scythrop.livejournal.com]

No, I am sadly/blissfully/conflictedly dislocated to Santa Barbara for some years now. But I know that block, ummm, pretty well (I met my wife outside Rockitz twenty years and a day ago, after a GWAR show) so we will definitely check it out next time we visit my parents.