For good or ill (considering my waist line), I live in a city that is blessed with a wide array of really good food. I can think of few ethic styles that I don't like. I guess Asian food is my favorite, but I can certainly get excited about Mexican or Mediterranean as well.
There are some locally owned Asian Fusion places here that are very good. It is a very happy thing to be able to get Vietnamese spring rolls, Chinese hot and sour soup and Thai curry for a meal and have all of them be done well. Some great Vietnamese food here, I love getting the little spring rolls wrapped up in leaf lettuce with Thai basil and cilantro sprigs and dipping it into hot chili and sweet peanut sauce followed by a big bowl of beef noodle soup. We have a Thai place that make Tom Kha soup (coconut milk soup with galangha, mushrooms, chili peppers, lime juice Thai herbs and choice of shrimp, chicken or tofu that is truly a masterpiece. It comes in a Styrofoam cup when you get take out and I could drink a quart easily.
We have some good Indian and Pakistani places as well. Not much Middle Eastern, but enough good places to satisfy the craving.
We don't have an In and Out Burger, but a local bar chain called Huey's and a place called Cheeseburger Cheeseburger after the infamous SLN skits can get the job done. There's even a place called Dyer's that deep-fry's the patties.
Ah Mexican, there are some world class Mexican Restaurants here. Last time I got together with Leif he put on quite an impressive spread despite having nary a Latino bone in his body. We've got a place just a few blocks from the office called Las Delicious that is absolutely wonderful. The food is very simple and authentic. It is cheap and wonderful. They make their own salsa (nice and hot) daily and they have a tortilla business as well making fresh tortillas and chips (oh the chips!). They have Tortas (Mexican hot sub sandwiches, their Cuban sandwich variation with jalapenos instead of pickles is my fav. and the Milanesa--breaded grilled steak) on fresh bread (no doubt made in proper mexican style with lard) along with tamales and they make open faced tacos with such choices as Pastor (marinated pork), chorizo (if you don't know what chorizo is you don't really know mexican food), pork chop and steak. They have an all in one fajita with grilled steak, marinated pork, pork chop, bacon, green pepper, onion and cheese with 9 small corn tortillas and home made sauces. The charro soup beans with chorizo, ham and bacon are another simple, but oh so tasty goodie. Don't even get me started on the the 3 milk's cake...
Of course this is the south and the Barbecue capital of the world and so we get some things ya'll in other parts of the country might not have much familiarity with--catfish (deep fried or blackened) with hush puppies on the side. We make our pulled BBQ pork shoulder sandwiches a special way too--spicy, smoky, vinegary sauce on the slow cooked meat with sweet slaw on top. Dry rub ribs with spicy fries, slaw, BBQ baked bean and corn on the cob. Oh yeah, and BBQ spaghetti. Other Southern specialties like Greens, black eye peas and shrimp over cheese grits are here too (that's three separate dishes fyi) as well as Cajun fare which has gotten even better here post Katrina.