Friday Fives: fun.

When we started doing Friday Fives a few years back, the idea was to take someone really high profile (actor, musician, political figure) and show you that they are a food obsessed bad ass with really good taste just like yourself. We like to think that it’s been a successful endeavor so far, considering that we’ve had some really famous people take the time to sort through our absurd “Perfect For” categories. We’re always entertained by the idea of a big celebrity’s publicist trying to explain to them what the Drunk Hook Ups category might mean.

But for all the household names and personal role models we’ve had for Friday Fives, we’ve found that the best ones are always the ones where we say to ourselves, “sh*t I wish I would have written that.” This happens to be exactly one of those moments. Meet Nate Ruess (center), lead singer of fun.

We asked Nate for a Friday Fives a few weeks ago, mainly because we love his band. Fun.’s single “We Are Young” is one of the best songs we’ve heard in a really long time, and it’s about to be fully on once their album Some Nights comes out on February 21st. Basically, this is a band that you need to know about. What we didn’t know is that Nate is not only pretty decent at music, but he’s excellent at both eating food and writing things for our website. Pretty much every restaurant pick and everything he has to say about it made us mad we didn’t say it. So check out Nate’s “Perfect For” picks, and make sure to get the fun. album when it comes out this month. Also check back for Nate’s monthly column for Immaculate Infatuation that he doesn’t know about yet. It’s gonna be awesome.

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