WHAT WE LIKE Caesar salad, crab meat cocktail, crab cakes, lobster quesadilla, baby back ribs, halibut, roast chicken, braised short ribs, short bone rib-eye, Kobe flatiron steak, grilled shrimp, chocolate brioche bread pudding, chocolate pot de crème, pumpkin swirled cheesecake.
RECOMMENDED DISHES Beet soup, endive salad with Gorgonzola, portobello sandwich, shrimp sautéed with bacon and tomato, ostrich, grilled chicken, chocolate pecan pie.
WHAT WE LIKE Tomato salad, Portuguese clams, crab cake, "spoons" (half scallops), blackened jumbo scallops, bacon; sweet potato fries, Doc's twice-cooked potato; strip steak, skirt steak, wood-grilled chicken; chocolate "retro" cake, apple crisp for two.
They do not like shopping except for toys, but are agreeable to a little swimwear-browsing, if it is followed by grilled cheese and chocolate milk.
Even when it's good, that third grilled salmon or chocolate lava cake in a month is going to lose some of its appeal.
Capitale more or less demands dishes like seared scallops with smoked pork belly, or grilled bison with chocolate oil in a merlot reduction.
And while a croque-monsieur is inherently uncomplicated, it's like mashed potatoes, grilled steak and chocolate chip cookies: simple in principle, but vexing to master.
Here, where immigrants once brought their hard-earned savings, wealthy diners pay $33 for a plate of grilled bison in chocolate oil, amid the gilded Corinthian columns, Venetian glass and chip mosaic marble floors.
Now take everyone to the Woolworth's lunch counter for grilled cheeses and chocolate milk.
Last month's ten-year pile was especially decadent, held at a two-story Berkeley home outfitted with a hot tub, stripper pole, and fire pit; hors d'oeuvres included grilled oysters, a chocolate fountain, individually decorated vulva cookies, and a dutch brownie cake decorated in the shape of the girlpile logo.
RECOMMENDED DISHES -- Mussels in broth, grilled quail, warm goat cheese salad, porterhouse steak, calf's liver, rack of lamb, grilled tuna, grilled pineapple with blackberry ice cream, chocolate torte, raspberry creme brulee.
