1/16    Can someone recommend a low-medium priced restaurant to eat
        dinner at? I'm looking for something with a casual-semicasual
        ambience. Hopefully it will have something unique going for it.
        I was hoping to go to the ethiopiain place Blue Nile, but that's
        not an option for certain reasons. Oh yeah, in Berkeley,
        too. thanks.
        \_ ru looking to score or what?
           \_ yes.
        \_ There was this Thai restaurant next to Chez Peniez (is that how
           you spell it) called Cha Am or something like that. They had
           pretty decent food.
           \_ Long ago they did.  Now they have overpriced tiny portions.
              Dara Lao (next door to it) isn't bad.
        \_ What do you consider low-medium priced?  How many people?  Lunch
           or dinner?
        \_ Blue Nile is too expensive for what you're getting.  The food is
           'different' if you're willing to pay extra for that but just as a
           place to eat I wouldn't do it at current prices.  It's also hardly
           semi-casual.  Any less casual and it'd be McDonald's.
        \_ Skates, at the Marina.
           \_ Skates is pretty expensive for the food quality.  The view is
                nice, but you can't see much if you're there at dinner this
                time of the year. Brennan's is a casual, inexpensive place
                that's unique, but I wouldn't exactly call it "ambience".
                I'd say King Yen is probably the most consistently satisfying
                inexpensive sit-down place I eat in Berkeley.  -tom
                \cancun taqueria, racha cafe, korean bbq, peppermint grill,
                fat apples, sa wooie, some likes viks and BoI, bongo burger.
                need to be more specific. --psb
                \_ racha sucks, psb... we've already talked about this.
                   \- suum cuique. btw, in the $15 range i recommend
                   Saigon Saigon: Valencia @22-23rd. ok tnx. --psb
                   \_ Aren't we talking Berkeley? If you're going to bring
                      SF into the mix, there's 100x as many options.
        \_ I recommend Cha'am too.  There's also a tapas place kitty corner
           to Cha'am on the second floor that has nice ambiance and good food,
           Cafe De La Paz. (http://www.themenupage.com/cafedelapaz.html
           \_ Have you been to Cha'am in the last, say, 5 years?  After about
              '96, their portions got progressively smaller, and their prices
              wen't progressively higher.  You can't get out of there for less
              than $30/person.  I don't call that "low/medium priced".
              \_ I also have to agree that Cha'am has gone downhill.  --PeterM
        \_ Berkeley Thai House on Channing, just north of Telegraph.