Top 10 Bay Area places to break the Yom Kippur Fast

We're in the home stretch of Yom Kippur 2009; a time for all Jewish mavens like me and others to atone for our sins, and more importantly, contemplate where we all will converge come sundown to break the fast.

Here's a quick laundry list of Top 10 Bay Area places where you can do some serious fast-breaking:

**Tommys Joynt, SF: serious turkey sandwiches and the meatloaf is orgasmic. Sip the grub down with a Sierra Nevada to boot!

**Top Dog, Berkeley: my favorite is the one on Durant and Telegraph and right about now, 3 well-done brats and two tops deserve consideration. Atone me with seltzer later.

**Blondies Pizza: Berkeley: Just one FAT peperoni slice and a diet coke. That'll do...for starters.

**Lefty O'Douls, SF: if you don't like the meatloaf at Tommys Joynt, there's always the pastrami at this Union Square hof brau, but brace for the homeless guy outside later on singing "Don' worry, be happy."

**Tadich Grill, SF: the best seafood in the Bay Area. Period. End of story. If you get a full loaf of bread with the swordfish, I'll trade you that for a night on the town with Beyonce, (maybe)

**Balboa Cafe, SF: so, you need to get food and eat a great burger, (my fav) and in addition, it's "cougar night" at the Balboa. And we all know that Cougars love single Jewish men like me, right?

**La Cucina, SF: an excellent breakfast place, but I like an early dinner too.

**North Beach Pizza, SF, (Union and Green) there's got to a law that says that pizza this good can't be consumed so quickly after 24 hours of fasting. Call the lawyers.

**House of Prime Rib, SF: Oh, you had to go there, right? Hell yes! Go to your ATM and withdraw 40 bucks, rush inside the Van Ness eatery, (go to the bar, it's quicker) and immediately order the King Arthur cut and save me the creamed spinach for later.

**Shanghai 1930, SF: High-end Chinese food with the most delicious pot stickers and jazz to boot. If you're lucky, say you know Willie Brown and they might comp you on the fried rice.

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