White tablecloths but they welcome casual dressers, at least at lunchtime (the only times I've ever gone there). Phenomenal food. Spice levels are appropriate for the San Francisco Bay Area, and the menu is quite sophisticated. I tried turtle soup there for the first time, and I loved it. LOVED it. Strongly recommended.

Small but nice, clean, pleasant little restaurant, and some of the best red curry chicken I've had in a long time. It was definitely busy at lunchtime, as per one of the other reviews here. Parking is a little tricky on 25th Avenue, too. Definitely worth the effort, though.

This is the best movie I've seen this year so far. It is deeper, darker, and more violent than Batman Begins, so much so that I think parents who take children younger than 13 to this movie should be arrested for child abuse. They'll have nightmares for years.

Heath Ledger really DOES deserve a posthumous Oscar for his portrayal of the Joker. He's not a villian; he is the Devil. He is so unpredictable, so brutal, so menacing, I can't think of another portrayal of any bad guy in any movie that surpasses him. I didn't expect his performance to match the hype, yet it does. Christian Bale, of course, is the anchor of the movie, and although it is not a bravura performance, it's perfectly balanced with those of his co-stars. He is a generous actor, never upstaging anyone else on screen, but always commanding attention when he's there. The tragedy of his story deepens in this movie, and he carries the weight of Batman's dark purpose with utter sincerity.

Aaron Eckhart is also perfect as Harvey Dent, which surprised me. I've never really thought much of Eckhart as an actor up to now, but it evidently isn't because of his talents or skills. Maggie Gyllenhaal is a terrific replacement for the rather lightweight Katie Holmes. She has just the right amount of gravitas for the role she plays in this story. Gary Oldman is amazing, as he ALWAYS is when the director keeps him from chewing up the scenery. And Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman are terrific as usual.

I won't spoil any of the details; it's too much fun to experience them without any foreknowledge. Christopher Nolan is an amazing director, and I love the twisty movies he creates. My only minor quibble was with the conclusion of the film: it gets so busy that it's sometimes difficult to follow exactly what's going on. I had heard this criticism before I went to see it, and unfortunately it turned out to be true. That and the speakers in the theater were imbalanced so it was almost impossible to hear the dramatic voiceover at the very end of the film.

"The Dark Knight" transcends the so-called "comic book movie" and moves squarely into the foreground of big-budget action films of any kind. It is a great movie; one which will become the standard against which all action/crime-dramas will be measured from now on. And I think its director, Christopher Nolan, is the only one who has a decent chance of outdoing it.