For dinner, my two favorite places in the Haight are Citrus Club and Kan Zaman Café. This Middle Eastern joint does it up with the whole sultan's feast thing, sitting on pillows, smoking hookas, eating humus and falafel while watching belly dancing. It's a great place for a group of friends to crowd around a roundtable and be festive. The food's much better here than that comparable Arabian place in the Mission, but the tradeoff is that the belly dancing there is usually accompanied by live musicians. I think it's always off CD at Kan Zaman. As usual, it's all about setting priorities…
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