We tried La Familia earlier this month (or is that last month?) with Ron and Diane... very disappointing, awfully overpriced. The little cups of chicken soup served as an appetizer tasted like Goya packets; my rice and peas was bland and also seemed packet-made; Otis's Cubano was pretty small. It also took a realllly loooong tiiiiiiime to get our food. Which was fine, since we were having a grand time chatting, but not what you look for in a family-style Latino restaurant.

Next up, we're going to check out Viet Bangkok, the new Vietnamese/Thai place on St. John. Not because we need another Thai place in this town (Pom's opening on Forest, I think there's another one opening on Congress), but because Pho is the food of the gods. I'll report back. (I loved the Pho at Bottomz Up and was heartbroken when it closed due to excessive violence. Of course the atmosphere wasn't great, but good soup will make me forgive much.)

Otherwise we really haven't been doing a whole heck of a lot of eating out; too many vegetables to be responsible for.