can't talk - eating.

RNM Restaurant - Haight and Steiner in SF

My favorite restaurant in my neighborhood is RNM Restaurant. I've taken Tommy and Morgan there - and splurge on a night out there once a paycheck. Not that it's all that expensive - but my budget calls for choosing my dining out nights carefully.

I need to save clams for:

• Barracuda Sushi (So much Saki - so little time)
• Zuni (burgergasm!)
• and the occasionally fine-food megasplurge at Absinthe or Greens.

What I like about RNM is that it's unassuming - and their food is simple but flavorgasmic. Their Fiscalini Cheddar Mac and Cheese is better than sex - and I'm not exxagerating. They serve fresh salads and entrees that are simply out of this world. and the setting is nice too - very elegant and modern. It's hardly what you'd expect alongside the pizza joints and bagelries that dot the Lower Haight.

Anyhow - if you are looking a new taste treat to add to your San Francisco restaurant list.

This is it.

can't talk - listening.

Frederic Yonnet

One of the advantages of working in radio - is getting new CDs as promotional items.

I'm listening to jazz harmonica player Frederic Yonnet. It's very smoothjazz - and not very New Orleans which is what I was sort of expecting? but - - the smoothness he makes of bringing the harmonica front and center is pretty neat.

If you like smooth jazz stuff? You might give this a listen......