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| | | You may or may not have noticed, but I haven’t been posting around here much. I have fizzled out a bit on la.foodblogging and am starting up a new project to get my food writing juices flowing again. As long as our contributors are willing to write and share their finds with the readers, I plan on ... Read More | | | | | | After reading about That’s Amore from QuarryGirl a few days ago, the BF and paid them a visit despite it being all the way in Cerritos — almost 30 miles away from our place. That’s Amore is a pizza restaurant in the same plaza as the Korean Farmer’s Market at the corner of Carmenita and Artesia. Wh... Read More | | | | | | As some of you have noticed, about once a year, I write about some extravagant dining experience. Well, it’s that time again. Once upon a time, I went to Melisse and did the carte blanche, which basically means the chef chooses what will be served. I recalled that there were about 9 wonderful cou... Read More | | | | | | It’s easy to miss this hole-in-the-wall restaurant with its generic name and bland red awning, but Shanghai Xiao Chi serves up tasty Shanghai dishes on par with that of better known Shanghai restaurants such as Mei Long Village. We started off with a traditional Shanghai appetizer called kao fu. ... Read More | | | | | | photo from their website Earlier this year – actually, during summer – I made my way down to Santa Monica to try a restaurant that I’d heard rave reports about. A young, new chef, Evan Funke, had just taken over the kitchen at Rustic Canyon Wine Bar. Word on the street was that he had studied past... Read More | | | | | | We have a special place in our hearts for The Oinkster, Andre Guerrero’s masterpiece of “slow fast food” on trendy Colorado Blvd. in Eagle Rock (and one of Jonathan Gold’s 99 Essential LA restaurants in 2008). Part of this is Pinoy Pride: as the celebrated owner and chef of Max, Senor Fred, and Oin... Read More | | | | | | I had a thought the other day. Let’s assume that the economy gets bad. I mean really bad. So bad that many of your local specialty food providers went out of business. I really, really hope that this isn’t the case. Again, let’s assume that it does get that bad. What would you stockpile? What would ... Read More | | | | | | Co-Manager Hajnal Molnar-Szakacs at work Fulfilled is a brand new venue offering a completely unique treat, dubbed by owner Susumu Tsuchihashi as “Ima.” The Beverly Hills-based shopfront is an exquisite little jewel-box of a café, where they offer a traditional Japanese delicacy known as imaga... Read More | | | | | | Tipped off by FoodEater’s post about Doomie’s Home Cookin, the BF and I braved LA traffic this afternoon to drive to Chinatown for lunch. Doomie’s Home Cookin’ is located upstairs in a bar called Roberto’s Club. You can either eat outside on the patio, or inside in the bar. We started off wit... Read More | | | | | | Note: My apologies, readers, for the tardiness of this post. This entry was actually 80% finished, but I went out of town and had (gasp) no email/internet access for days, so it was left incomplete, until now. The tapas tasting event at Bar Celona that I attended was actually a week ago, but I dec... Read More | | | |
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