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Reaching New Heights at 71Above

August 16, 2021 | 0 Comments

The most epic dinner in over a year — hehe — but seriously this was a pretty incredible dinner at all levels. 71Above really hit the food and service out of the park…

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Upstairs with Sauvages

August 9, 2021 | 0 Comments

First Sauvages “back in business” is some serious Burgundy business!

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Heroic Bordeaux

August 6, 2021 | 1 Comments

Heroic Italian serves as the location for an epic revisitation of the classic 1982 Bordeaux vintage…

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Rice Yummy

July 13, 2021 | 0 Comments

Smaller more casual Shanghai restaurant by the owners of Shanghai #1 Seafood Village…

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Dirty Dozen Crustacean

July 7, 2021 | 1 Comments

Arguably the “fanciest” Dirty Dozen location yet…

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Sushi Miyagi Apres

June 29, 2021 | 0 Comments

This was the perfect place to return to sushi post lockdown with a ridiculously epic lineup of fish…

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Return to Rocco’s

June 21, 2021 | 0 Comments

The incredible House of the Borgese’s is a fitting “return to form” after over a year not going out…

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Crustacean Cru

June 5, 2021 | 0 Comments

The post-lockdown post-vaccination dabble back into fine dining deserves something really epic…

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New Year’s To Go

January 29, 2021 | 0 Comments

To end this dreadful year and “celebrate” the start of yet another pandemic year I ordered the special New Year’s meal from one of my favorites, Melisse…

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Vespertine does Alinea

December 18, 2020 | 0 Comments

After a two month hiatus from any kind of “fine dining” (even by limited lockdown standards) the draw of Alinea lured me into another excellent Vespertine takeout meal…

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Vespertine at Home

September 22, 2020 | 1 Comments

An elaborate Japanese-style Corona-era takeout dinner from master chef Jordan Khan with a bunch of great Burgundy…

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Sauvages AOC

April 27, 2020 | 1 Comments

An awesome Bordeaux lunch at A.O.C. before sealing in for a bit to avoid the Coronavirus…

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Yasu = Yummy

April 22, 2020 | 1 Comments

The Foodie Club is always trying out new sushi joints and this one proved to be one of the best we’ve been to in a long time.

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Far SGV – Hunan Restaurant

April 20, 2020 | 2 Comments

For our third week in a row we go all the way out to Rowland Heights to enjoy some of the latest in SGV Chinese…

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Spicy Moment V2.0

April 17, 2020 | 1 Comments

A seemingly boring Szechuan reboot turns into a super interesting teleport to the far east…

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Kang Ho-dong Baekjeong

April 15, 2020 | 0 Comments

Adding yet another top KBBQ place in Koreatown to the roster…

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Too Tony at Chef Tony

April 13, 2020 | 1 Comments

The Lunch Quest crew hauls to Pasadena to try out a Tony new dim sum place called… Chef Tony…

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Penfolds Marino

April 10, 2020 | 0 Comments

My friend John did a fabulous job organizing this fun and educational journey into the world of Penfolds…

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Malubianbian Spicy Stick Pot

April 8, 2020 | 0 Comments

A couple of us drove an hour east to try out this new style of Chengdu “skewer” hot pot and had a blast of a time slurping down some duck intestine and the like…

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Dirty Dozen Prime

April 6, 2020 | 1 Comments

The blind tasting sub group of the hedonists, the Dirty Dozen, crushes Lawry’s with a blind tasting of 2000 and older Bordeaux…

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