"0"^^ . "2010-08-07T00:00:00"^^ . "0"^^ . . "4"^^ . "Rare Earth is a great place for me for many reasons.\n\nIt's conveniently close to home--10 minutes down the road. Nothing much is close to home for me. A small handful of restaurants, not many of which are kid-friendly. So this is a big deal.\n\nThey are kid-friendly. Not like they have a kid-menu type of kid friendly. But there are lots of kids (at least, at the time we went--around 5p) and the restaurant is cool about it. \n\nThey have a nice happy hour! A bunch of wines and beers for $5 and $3, respectively. Margherita pizza for $6, artichoke dip for $5-6 (I can't remember) and caesar salad for $4. The marg pizza was really good and pretty large. The artichoke dip was tasty as well. I had a glass and a half of good malbec, which was such a steal for $5 a glass. We also had a chicken couscous dish/salad, with red onion, pistachio and driep apricots. Very tasty! Three glasses of wine, a beer, a marg pizza, artichoke dip and couscous chicken salad for $44 during happy hour. Steal.\n\nNot sure why we waited so long to stop in but we'll definitely be back."^^ . "0"^^ . . .