After a long hiatus for an invisible remodel Seafood Village has “transformed” itself into Seafood Palace — fortunately the food is still great…
A great “normal” meal at République. Food was seriously on point!
It’s hard to describe Kato. Located in one of the ubiquitous Santa Monica Blvd mini-malls it serves a sort of modern Asian omakase/kaiseki…
Incredibly cheap revolving sushi bar on sawtelle — if you want your fish cheap, this is your place!
One of our favorite Italian chefs, Mirko Paderno, has relocated to Sunset Blvd. Combine this with a whole lot of Barolo and Barbaresco for a Sauvages good time!
A mellow opening day at Tsujita’s new Killer Noodle Tantanmen house serves up some hardly killer but very tasty noodles…
Another awesome Omakase + Champagne and Burgundy…
Westside pho under scrutiny…
We explore the exotic cuisine of Anhui including eggplant with 1,000 year-old egg and the spiciest bowl of cream colored soup I’ve ever had…
Bad Chinese in the deep southland…
Arguably the best steakhouse meal I’ve ever had — plus tons of great wines…
At my suggestion we relocate a dinner from a lesser Italian to Officine, always amazing…
Classic 1989 Brentwood Italian is still cooking up a storm…
Back to Doma BH for what might be its last gasp and for more pretty good Italian oddly paired with Cabernet…
Another of LA’s vast collection of small Japanese ramen joints…
Sauvages lunch opens up to us the wonderful world of rosé with 35+ bottles set to a quartet of food by Kali chef Kevin Meehan…
Really exceptional Cantonese banquet fare including special stuffed duck, geoduck, savory lamb chops and more…
Sawtelle gets a very cheap, very Japanese udon and tempura chain with an interesting cafeteria format…
It’s hard to find a great Crab XLB but J&J does them justice…
Probably the most Italian pasta I’ve had in LA, maybe in the states…