Places to eat, second week of May?

Hi, I'm swinging down from Vancouver on the second week of May to visit. I already made a couple of resos to big ticket places, now looking for the wide gamut of places from cheap to mid-scale that offers something different. Prefer to not go somewhere overly suburban, if I need to travel outside downtown it'd be good to be able to walk around and see things nearby.

I'm casting a fairly wide net, but to be more specific I'm going alone, so places that do large platters will be awkward and I'm happy to try and cuisine type.