Rare Earth is still one of our favorite local spots where we always take visitors and house guests. It is close, has good ambience and consistently good food. Their salads and thin-crust pizzas are excellent and not too filling so you can leave room for one of their yummy desserts. Happy-hour deals on wine, beer and snacks are great if you can beat the 6:00 pm cutoff. Service is sometimes a tad too relaxed (at least by US standards), but our server recently comped our group some late delivered desserts - a very good recovery.
Recommended!