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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 | 0 Comments

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

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After the Con

August 31, 2020 | 0 Comments

Check out this online round table I participated in. Four of us fantasy authors and video game fans gabbing for an hour — but lots of fun.

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Sauvages AOC

April 27, 2020 | 0 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 | 0 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 | 0 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 | 0 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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Oc and Lau

April 3, 2020 | 0 Comments

A composite review of one of Garden Grove’s best Vietnamese places based on several visits…

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NC Peking Duck – Double Duck part 2

April 1, 2020 | 0 Comments

As part of our “Double Duck” night and also part of a larger Peking Duck adventure, we drove all the way out to City of Industry to try out this fabulous slightly modern Beijing Duck place…

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Happy Duck – Double Duck part 1

March 30, 2020 | 1 Comments

We decided to try some new Peking Duck places in the “Far East” SGV and this was first on the “hit list”…

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Tong Tak – Epic Cantonese

March 27, 2020 | 0 Comments

Tony Lau takes lets us in on yet another great Cantonese find…

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Not a Cylon — Baltaire

March 25, 2020 | 0 Comments

Checking out Brentwood’s better answer to the Cheesecake Factory…

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Uni at the Borgese’s

March 23, 2020 | 0 Comments

Third time is even more of the charm at the amazing House of Borgese…

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Jadot at Petrossian

March 20, 2020 | 0 Comments

My third Jadot winemaker dinner was an amazing foray into their wines, young and old…

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