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…
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…
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…
The Spirit Thief straddles a fairly unique line between totally straight up 80s fantasy and comedic fantasy the likes of River of Dancing Gods or Myth Conceptions. It’s not however as totally comic as those, and somehow seems a bit smaller and lighter (if that’s possible).
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…
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…
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….
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…
Restaurant: Gjelina [1, 2, 3] Location: 1429 Abbot Kinney Blvd, CA 90291. (310) 250-1429 Date: December 16, 2010 Cuisine: New Californian Rating: Everything just tastes great! _ My parents flew into town but their flight was four hours late so…
Restaurant: Melisse [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] Location: 1104 Wilshire Blvd.Santa Monica, CA 90401. (310) 395-0881 Date: December 15, 2010 Cuisine: California French Rating: Awesome. Top of its game! My foodie friend EP wanted to do a final Foodie…
In an effort to tame the byzantine nature of my posts and the particular mechanics of a WordPress based site I’ve introduced a “Topics at a Glance” section to the sidebar and a Food Index page. You can click the…
I was back at my parents for the ThanksGavin and I noticed the magazine cover to the right sitting in their powder room. This ceramic dog head, it turns out, is an late 18th or early 19th century British object…
Restaurant: Ortolan Location: 8338 W. 3RD STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90048 (323) 653-3300 Date: Dec 11, 2010 Cuisine: Modern French Ortolan, named after the finch the French like to eat, has been around for a few years. It’s always been…
Line editing and polish is an interesting part of the process of professional writing. It bears a lot of similarities to optimizing code as a programmer, but more fun. One of the weird things is that no mater how many…
Restaurant: Taverna Tony Location: 23410 Civic Center Way, Malibu, CA 90265, Tel: (310) 317-9667 Date: Dec 10, 2010 Cuisine: Greek I have a weakness for Greek food. I spent big chunks of the summers of 1990 and 1991 in…