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Eating out way too much these days.

Hit Poleng Lounge near home on Friday after discovering the wait was an hour at Little Star. Yummy sweet potato fries with banana catsup. Yummy butterfish ceviche. Ok kalbi.

Saturday, met an old friend from college and a friend of hers for dinner in the Mission. Decided on the fly to visit Picaro on 16th near Valencia, a tapas place right next to Ti Couz. She liked seafood and didn't like fried food so we got an entirely different set of tapas than I would have gotten with my bf, and it was very tasty! The grilled calamari was surprisingly delicious - tender texture, buttery taste. I don't much like eggplant but the Japanese eggplant dish was decent - good for what it was. The mushrooms, shrimp, and onion? dish was really tasty as well - little shrimp, all very flavorful. Rabbit stew her friend loved - when we finished eating our bits he basically licked the plate clean - but I was less impressed. And the patatas bravas were good though a little spicier than I like. Well, we got the ones that said spicy in the description so what can I expect? Overall I very much enjoyed the food, and would return. Though the guitar player/singer who came in towards the end of our meal and started walking around the place was quite loud...not so good for conversation.

Sunday, was shopping at REI and Sports Basement until later than expected, so we decided to eat in Potrero Hill. There's a short little block at 18th that has a few restaurants so we parked there and went where the menu most struck our fancy, Lingba Lounge, a Thai restaurant. We ordered the "little bit of everything" appetizer special, which consisted of two chicken satay skewers, 4 pieces of fresh spring roll, 4 pieces of fried spring roll, 2 corn cakes, and a heap of thai beef jerky with 3 sauces to dip things in. It was quite tasty, though we found the beef jerky less than inspiring and left it all behind since we still had a lot of food to come. That was $22 for 2 people - lots of food. Then my bf got the garlic noodles with char-shu pork, which was pretty good - I had the leftovers for lunch today and it was quite garlicky and spicy. I got the miso and sake marinated black cod on sugar snaps and brussel sprouts and it was DELICIOUS. I was a very happy girl last night with my dinner. The black cod was sweet and flaky and tender and super-yummy, and the veggies were crisp and sweet and yummy in the sauce. So very very good. Yum. Service was prompt and fine, the place was nice, and there was no wait (it was a Sunday night). Sometimes it's best not to check out Yelp reviews before hitting a place!