Just Fabulous Kensington

This is a good restaurant on 4116 Adams Avenue. It started out mostly as a dessert place but they now also serve food and wine. They have a terrific cheese plate with a good selection of domestic and foreign cheeses - manchego, goat cheese, munster, petit basque (?? I could not match that one to anything I have eaten in France) - as well as candied figues, quince paste, sliced pears and apples, grapes and an array of artisan breads. At $18.95 it is more than enough for two. You can pair it with wines by the glass. The Viognier they offer is pretty good, and so it is the Sauvignon blanc from New Zealand (forgot to write down the name).
Regarding the main dishes we have tried the duck and ricotta raviolis (not bad but nothing like the cheese plate) and the spicy shrimps with rice noddles (a bit bland looking but quite tasty with a nice lemony flavour).
Their desserts have a really good reputation too but the only time we tried one (home-baked cookies with assorted ice-cream) I was a bit buzzed from all the wine before and thus only have a very fuzzy (althoug agreable) recollection of it.

It is right next door to the Landmark Ken movie theater so it is a nice way to start the evening before seeing a movie (plus the wine wears off while you are watching it).