Restaurant: Xino [1, 2] Location: 395 Santa Monica PlSte 308Santa Monica, CA 90401. (310) 755-6220 Date: February 7, 2011 Cuisine: Modern Dim sum Rating: A little heavy, but I’m glad to have some more good dim sum on the westside. Xino is another…
Restaurant: Zengo [1, 2, 3] Location: 395 Santa Monica Place, b/w Broadway & Colorado, Santa Monica, CA 90401. Tel. 310.899.1000 Date: February 4, 2011 Cuisine: Latin-Asian Fusion Rating: Color me confused — It’s in a mall, and it’s pretty good. ANY CHARACTER HERE With…
During my mom’s birthday weekend we seized on the opportunity of a fridge filled with pizza ingredients to whip up a number of Gavin-style breakfasts. First I made my Spanish eggs (SEE HERE). The next day my brother cooked up one of…
For the second half of my mother’s birthday weekend we hosted a small pizza party. I’ve already detailed the entire process involved in the making of my Ultimate Pizza (CLICK HERE for the index page). This party was merely a refinement…
Restaurant: Fraiche Location: 9411 Culver Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232. 310-839-6800 Date: January 29, 2011 Cuisine: Cal French Italian Rating: Interesting, Tasty, and surprisingly reasonable. My office was in Culver City in 2007 and 2008 and somehow I never tried…
Restaurant: La Cachette Bistro [1, 2] Location: 1733 Ocean AveSanta Monica, CA 90401(310) 434-9509 Date: January 15, 2011 & December 7, 2011 Cuisine: (Cal) French Rating: Great food, good value for what you get. Movie night, and off to La Cachette Bistro…
Restaurant: Pearl Dragon Location: 15229 West Sunset Boulevard Westside CA 90272. (310) 459-9790 Date: Jan 16, 2011 Cuisine: Pan Asian / Sushi Summary: Great “new style” sushi. Pearl Dragon is one of the few dinner restaurants in Pacific Palisades, and the only…
Restaurant: Matsuhisa [1, 2] Location: 129 N La Cienega Blvd Beverly Hills, CA 90211. (310) 659-9639 Date: January 23, 2011 Cuisine: Japanese Fusion Rating: As good as it’s always been! ANY CHARACTER HERE When I first ate at Matsuhisa 15 years ago it was…
Restaurant: Fig Location: 101 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica, Ca 90401. 310-319-3111 Date: January 14, 2011 Cuisine: Farmer’s Market American Rating: Solid! It’s fairly impressive that the Santa Monica Fairmont invested in getting a REAL chef (Ray Garcia) and turned their…
Restaurant: Bistro LQ [1, 2] Location: 8009 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90048. (323) 951-1088 Date: January 20, 2011 Cuisine: Modern French Rating: Legendary. Trufflumpagus is still squatting inside my skull. Back in December my Foodie Club friends and I had heard about this crazy “19…
Restaurant: Gjelina [1, 2, 3] Location: 1429 Abbot Kinney Blvd, CA 90291. (310) 250-1429 Date: Jan 11, 2011 Cuisine: New Californian Rating: Perfect lunch! _ My brother and I love Gjelina’s for lunch. Nowhere else in LA is the casual New American done…
Restaurant: Brentwood Location: 148 S Barrington Ave Los Angeles CA 90049. 310-476-3511 Date: Jan 9, 2011 Cuisine: American Brentwood is a local bar/restaurant perfect for the Sunday night with-the-kid dinner. It’s pretty straight up American, very tasty, but a…
Restaurant: La Terraza Location: Madrid Spain Date: June 29, 2010 Cuisine: Molecular Spanish Gastronomy Rating: Fantastic! We spent the month of June in Spain and this included a legion of fantastic meals. Recently I covered a traditional Spanish place (REVIEW HERE), but…
Restaurant: La Serenata Location: 1416 Fourth Street Santa Monica, CA 90401. 310-656-7017 Date: Jan 8, 2011 Cuisine: Mexican When I first started going 15-16 years ago, La Serenata was fairly eye opening — coming as I did from the world…
Restaurant: Divino Location: 11714 Barrington CourtBrentwood, CA 310.472.0886 Date: Jan 07, 2011 Cuisine: Italian Summary: Solid value. Divino is another of Brentwood’s seemingly endless supply of Italian eateries. I find this one in the upper middle of the pack. It’s pretty good,…
Since I have so many Ultimate Pizza posts I wanted to gather their links together into a single page. But I solemnly promise this is the last pizza post for a good while — at least until I prepare another batch of them! In summary, every…
The seventh Ultimate Pizza post. Earlier in the series were Dough, Pesto,Sauce, Toppings, New Years Pizza, and Day 2. Woah! We had family over on Sunday to polish off the seven remaining pizza balls and work our way through some more of the toppings….
As if you can’t tell, I like cheese. A lot. Many many different kinds of cheese. About 15 years ago I was at Valentino Restaurant in Santa Monica and I discovered Burrata. This is a fresh Italian cheese, originally from Apulia (the boot…
