Thursday works for me too!
Dinner options in The City itself range across the entire spectrum. I know some very good places for Thai, Italian, Ethiopian, South African, you name it. Shame to say, but most of the places I know for sushi are pretty good, but not fantastic. I claim locals disease. When you live here, you're not always in the position of having to forage so I may be a bit off WRT the latest and greatest places.
Carta, kind of halfway up Market towards Castro, was where the dgold's gathering last year was and that was good Italian.

JD