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Quick Eats: Tofu Ya

January 10, 2011 | 2 Comments

Restaurant: Tofu Ya Location: 2021 Sawtelle Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90025. 310-473-2627. Date: Jan 06, 2011 Cuisine: Korean BBQ & Tofu Soup Some friends of mine wanted Korean for lunch so I found this Westside place on Zagat (it…

Ultimate Pizza in Review

January 9, 2011 | 18 Comments

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…

Ultimate Pizza – Day 3

January 7, 2011 | 4 Comments

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….

In between Pizza, there is Burrata

January 5, 2011 | 22 Comments

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…

Ultimate Pizza – Day 2

January 3, 2011 | 10 Comments

Here we are at the sixth Ultimate Pizza post. My neck is all knotted up from this much obsession. Earlier in the series were Dough, Pesto, Sauce, Toppings, and New Years Pizza. Since we had a lot of dough balls,…

Ultimate Pizza – New Years

January 2, 2011 | 10 Comments

Finally, five posts later, we come to the main event, the Ultimate Pizza. This post is pretty epic, but just to recap. We set the stage with articles on the Dough, the Pesto, the Sauce, and the Topping Preparation. Now…

Ultimate Pizza – The Toppings

January 1, 2011 | 5 Comments

When making Ultimate Pizza fresh ingredients are one of the most crucial elements. I already went over the preparation of the Dough, the Pesto, and the Sauce. Now I’ll cover the bulk of the shopping and for toppings. I get…

Ultimate Pizza – The Sauce

December 31, 2010 | 7 Comments

This is part 3 of my comprehensive coverage of our New Years pizza making, following the article on Dough and the one on the Pesto. Upcoming will be toppings and the pizzas themselves. Here are the ingredients. Two types of marzano tomatos from Italy….

Ultimate Pizza – The Pesto

December 31, 2010 | 12 Comments

This is part 2 of my series on Ultimate Homemade Pizza. For Part 1 (on Dough) CLICK HERE. We prepare a lot of different toppings, including homemade pesto, which makes an excellent substitute or compliment to tomato sauce. Most toppings will have to…

Ultimate Pizza – The Dough

December 30, 2010 | 8 Comments

For New Years those with toddlers tend to stay in, but we’re having friends over and making our Ultimate Homemade Pizzas. This is an involved process so I’m going to split both the prep itself and the event itself into…

Here Piggy – Botin Madrid

December 29, 2010 | 2 Comments

Restaurant: Botin Location: Madrid Spain Date: July 1, 2010 Cuisine: Classic Spanish At the end of our month in Spain we wanted to hit up a totally traditional Spanish place for our final dinner. This place in Madrid claims…

Lasagne Bolognese Minus the Meat

December 28, 2010 | 0 Comments

Layered between our obsessive holiday restaurant forays we did sandwich in a little home cooked meal. As the main course was lasagne I reached into the cellar and pulled out some Italian. Parker gives this Barolo a 93, “The 1997 Carobric, also…

Christmas is for Dim Sum

December 26, 2010 | 4 Comments

Restaurant: The Palace Location: 11701 Wilshire Blvd, Second Floor, Los Angeles, CA. 310-979-3377. Date: Dec 25, 2010 Cuisine: Chinese Dimsum As we don’t celebrate Christmas, and very few restaurants are open, Chinese is a long standing tradition. These days we go to Dim Sum. For…

Red Medicine is the Cure

December 25, 2010 | 3 Comments

Restaurant: Red Medicine [1, 2, 3] Location: 8400 Wilshire Blvd. Beverly Hills, Ca. 90211. 323-651-6500. Date: Dec 22, 2010 Cuisine: Modernized Vietnamese Rating: Pretty awesome! I’m a loyal reader of Kevin Eats and two weeks ago when he posted…

Sasabune – Dueling Omakases

December 24, 2010 | 12 Comments

Restaurant: Sasabune [1, 2] Location: 12400 Wilshire Blvd Ste 150 (South Carmelina Avenue) Los Angeles, CA 90025, (310) 820-3596 Date: December 21, 2010 Cuisine: Japanese Rating: Excellent as always. For the second time in a week we went back to Sasabune, one…

Rustic Canyon Redux

December 23, 2010 | 6 Comments

Restaurant: Rustic Canyon [1, 2, 3, 4] Location: 1119 Wilshire Blvd. Santa Monica, Ca 90401. 310-393-7050 Date: Dec 20, 2010 Cuisine: Farmer’s Market Californian ANY CHARACTER HERE When I first moved out to California in the early 90s LA cuisine was typified by Asian…

Quick Eats: Chan Dara

December 22, 2010 | 1 Comments

Restaurant: Chan Dara Location: 11940 W. Pico Blvd. (1/2 blk East of Bundy) West Los Angeles, CA 90064Phone: 310 479-4461 Date: December 19, 2010 Cuisine: Thai Rating: Very good modernized Thai Chan Dara is one of those funny places that…

Brunch at Tavern – again

December 21, 2010 | 7 Comments

Restaurant: Tavern [1, 2, 3, 4] Location: 11648 San Vicente Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90049. (310) 806-6464 Date: Dec 19, 2010 Cuisine: Market driven Californian Rating: Not just your typical short order brunch — but better. The weather is terrible (for LA), 58 and…

Quick Eats: Osteria Latini 2

December 20, 2010 | 1 Comments

Restaurant: Osteria Latini [1, 2, 3] Location: 11712 San Vicente Blvd.Brentwood, CA 90049 310.826.9222 Date: Dec 03, 2010 Cuisine: Italian _ As I mentioned last time, Osteria Latini is a reliable and reasonable neighborhood Italian. It proved that yet again. From my cellar….

Quick Eats: Houstons

December 19, 2010 | 6 Comments

Restaurant: Houstons Location: 202 Wilshire Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90401. (310) 576-7558 Date: December 17, 2010 Cuisine: American Rating: Solid High-end Chain American As any reader can probably tell, I’m not too big on chain restaurants. Frankly I consider the Olive Garden, Outback, Claim Jumper ilk to…

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