La Mediterranee

This is my favorite Mediterranean restaurant (here's their website), although I can't say I've tried many.

Sorry these pictures are so dark. They didn't come out when I used a flash, and I'm just an amateur photographer...so instead of figuring out how to take a nice picture, I just took these.

This is the Chicken Cilicia w/ some kind of lemon chicken soup (I thought the soup was better than their Armenian potato salad, which is weird because I usually love potato things). Chicken cilia (according to Kurtis, the European language expert, it's pronounced "Suh-lih-shuh,") is chicken, almonds, raisins, chickpeas, and cinnamon wrapped in fillo dough. It came with cheese, fruit, and hummus (hummos? why do different places spell it differently?). SOO GOOD.

Dessert: Kurtis and I shared a baklava, which was huge and had too much whipped cream on the side:


I also had (not on the same night, of course!) their Middle Eastern plate and their Chicken Pomegranite, and both were delicious.

More DC food

Yes...my ancestors would have been horrified:





Hey...I liked DC food...even though I gained about 10 pounds freshman year. :o/

Anzu - Berkeley, CA

Anzu
2433 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94704

Tried Anzu with Gary! This was on Monday, May 26, 2008. *Edit: I also went back on 6/15/08.

A Yelp review said that Anzu's agedashi tofu is good (deep-fried tofu...pretty much ended up being like tofu tempura). It was. That was my first time having it though (or at least I think!) so I don't know what it's supposed to taste like, but that doesn't matter if it's good, right?


Salmon and yellow tail (look at how big those pieces are!):


I...don't know what this was, but it had shrimp tempura in the middle:

Chocolate and Chalk Art Festival

I don't have any pictures of chocolate because I didn't actually participate in this event. I did get a free sample of chocolate, but it might have been from some other event because they had a bunch of tents up whose owners were selling food and non-food items. I did have a sample that was for sure related to the event though. It was a sample of Adina organics's Mayan Iced Mocha, which was pretty good. The usual price inside of Elephant Pharmacy is $2-something.

Anyways, so I guess they have this event every year (yesterday's was their 12th one) in the northern area of Berkeley where they have chocolate samples as well as a chalk art contest (first prize was $250 and runners-up received $50 Elephant Pharmacy gift cards) along the North Shattuck sidewalks. I saw some kids having fun doodling on the ground. Seems like a good event for kids. If I lived in Berkeley and had kids, I'd have them do it just for fun...but I do NOT want to live in Berkeley...so that doesn't matter...but it was nice seeing families working together and kids smiling and drawing. Here are a couple of bad pictures of excellent chalk artwork: