The first Sauvages lunch of the year is always a great one — Champagne at Chinois…
Testing out some great “new style” American-Italian at Antico in KTown…
First serious dinner of the the new year is a doozy — a fabulous game night at the Borgese house in Santa Monica…
The last Chinese meal of 2019 was a huge Hong Kong style banquet at Ho Kee Cafe Arcadia…
Off to KTown for some serious OG classic charcoal grilled KBBQ…
This year’s Sebi birthday party returns to the Mastros Penthouse with a 1st Growth Bordeaux theme…
Trying out one of the cart palaces in the SGV for some retro dimsum…
Awesome holiday Vietnamese featuring all sorts of goodies including Yarom’s fresh shot wild boar, snails, alligator, catfish and more…
An awesome 10 vintage Harlan vertical with lots of steak…
An awesome evening of Grange and other “hearty reds” at Pasadena’s The Royce steakhouse…
Yarom and I quest eastward to explore more new Chinese places…
Every Sunday in December 2019 included a different SGV adventure and this is the first, featuring some whole pig and other assorted Cantonese delicacies…
Trying out the super local new Italian down the street…
There can’t be too many places in America that serve up Nanjing style cured duck — a strange grey cold salted meat that is surprisingly delectable…
A massively epic dinner with TONS of Astrea Caviar, a completely custom menu by Chef Barbara Pollastrini, and incredible Champagnes and Burgundies (plus Gelato!)…
At the tail end of four days of ThanksGavin gluttony is Salty Saturday where we load up on bagels and salty cured fish…
A Chinese food addict seeks out his fix everywhere: Some surprisingly authentic (and delicious) Szechuan in Philadelphia…
The chronicle of 2019’s full on turkey stuffing fest — we being the turkeys being stuffed…
The first official event of ThanksGavin 2019 is Wed night, and while we usually do an ethnic, this year was modern American at Keep…
A quick stop to check up on Philadelphia suburb strip-mall Thai…