Restaurant: Manpuku Location: 2125 Sawtelle Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90025. (310) 473-0580 Date: October 14, 2011 Cuisine: Yakinaku Rating: Tasty BBQ, good value _ Manpuku is a Yakinaku (Japanese style Korean BBQ) joint in the heart of the Sawtelle little-Tokyo area (just a few stores…
I wouldn’t have expected to like this — other than the promised nudity — but it was rather sly. This ensemble show follows nine or ten British sixteen-seventeen year-olds studying, loving, and partying (not in that order) somewhere in nowhere Western England. Each episode picks a particular cast member to focus on, using them as a POV into the group dynamics.
Any business is about the flow of money. This is a keystone for understanding them. Dean Wesley Smith, one of self-publishing’s very vocal bloggers has an excellent article on the subject of the differing flow of money in both the traditional and…
I’m plugging away on my “after the gap” read of The Darkening Dream. At the 60% point, so I should hopefully be done by the end of the week. There’s only one scene I need to go back to and…
Restaurant: Go’s Mart [1, 2] Location: 22330 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, CA 91303 818.704.1459 Date: October 11, 2011 Cuisine: Japanese Sushi Rating: Possibly LA’s best sushi! _ This is my second visit to the unassuming Canoga Park sushi temple that is Go’s Mart. You…
I started a new read through and edit on my first novel, The Darkening Dream yesterday. I’m waiting for feedback on my newer book and wanted to cleanup the first one so I’ll have it ready to be proofread for possible self-publishing….
The best part about the 26 hour fast of Yom Kippur is breaking it! Best to start with some wine on a really empty stomach. Parker 91. “Bottled the week before I visited, his 2005 Morey-St.-Denis en la Rue de…
As is fairly obvious from my umpteen food reviews, I take a lot of pictures of food. For such a static target, for a number of reasons, the plate isn’t so easy to photograph. Mostly this comes down to light…
Restaurant: Saam [1, 2, 3] Location: 465 S La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048. 310.246.5555 Date: October 1, 2011 Cuisine: Spanish influenced Molecular Gastronomy Rating: Awesome, even better than The Bazaar. _ I’m a bit of a Jose Andres groupie as not only have I been…
This is one of those eternal writer questions, getting into the heart of the creative process. For those of you who don’t know, a “plotter” is someone who plots out (outlines) their entire story before writing it and a “pantser”…
The creator of so many of our toys and tools has passed away. He may have been controversial, kooky, and perhaps a pain to work for, but he was undeniably brilliant and touched all our lives. Probably his fundamental product genius was…
So I’m about halfway through my last polish pass on my third major draft of Untimed. [Update 7:44pm, finished the polish] This is one of the umpteen revision passes. Only another day or two to go before I send it off…
Since 2005 we’ve been hosting the family feast for Rosh Hashanah. And what is a traditional holiday dinner without an excuse to do some cooking. Rosh Hashanah occurs in September or October and so it’s traditional to include fall produce, particularly fruits which…
Just another quick update, more than doubled the number of dishes pictured in The Hungry Cat review. Sorry for the small posts, but my parents have been in town. But I have lots of gluttonous photo sets queued up. Picca, Saam, Ultimate Pizza, and…
Restaurant: Rivera Location: 1050 S Flower St, Los Angeles, CA 90015. 213.749.1460 Date: September 26, 2011 Cuisine: Neuvo Latino Rating: Kicking out the hits for decades _ When I first came to California (in 1994) one of the earlier “fancy” restaurants I went…
Just some quick updates today. I added a bunch of new dishes (i.e. photos) to the last Sam’s by the Beach review and an extra Omakase to Kiriko Sushi.
Restaurant: Jaleo [1, 2] Location: 3708 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, NV 89109. 702.698.7000 (Cosmopolitan) Date: September 24, 2011 Cuisine: Spanish Tapas Rating: Fun Tapas Bar _ So what does a true Foodie Club member do after eating a 22 course…
Restaurant: é by José Andrés Location: 3708 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, NV 89109. 702.698.7000 (Cosmopolitan) Date: September 24, 2011 Cuisine: Modern Spanish Rating: Mind blowing dinner theatre _ Our continuing epic Foodie Club Vegas venture brings us to é, José Andrés’…