What is your favorite birthday dinner? I'm cooking for my friend's bday tomorrow. Ideas?

Thank you everyone for the wonderful suggestions. I'll def do the roasted chicken and scallops for appetizer!

What's your friends favorite? Steak, shrimp, lobster, chicken. I would start there...

Halibut covered with a crab sauce and wrapped in parchment paper. Wonderful! If no one will make it for me, I make it myself.

For me it's either a really nice steak, or seared scallops. Something that is tasty, doesn't take the chef forever in the kitchen, and isn't messy to eat (like crab which I also love, but what a pain!), then usually roasted or mashed potatoes, and a lovely salad appropriate to the season. For dessert (my birthday is in the winter) chocolate lava cakes. Always chocolate in the winter to make me happy.

I will admit, the few times someone has cooked me roasted chicken, I've been supremely happy. Since your friend's b'day is tomorrow, roast chicken or steak would be a simple, awesome main accompanied by roasted potatoes or root veg and a green salad. For chicken, I rub a tarragon, garlic, and lemon compound butter under the skin; for steak, I like to rub it with just a little brown sugar and thyme before grilling or pan-frying. Those things are also easy to scale up or down depending on how many for whom you're cooking. Hope that helps! You've got a lucky friend!