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Banquet Style — Flame International

May 21, 2022 | 0 Comments

Fairly bizarre banquet dinner at this Westside Persian banquet hall…

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Embassy Kitchen Expedition

March 29, 2022 | 0 Comments

Finally get to review this SGV classic and some of their unique slate of Cantonese dishes…

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Iron Teapot Dome

February 5, 2022 | 0 Comments

Some fairly serious dim sum in Culver City with some (also serious) service issues…

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Soot Bull Jeep

January 31, 2022 | 0 Comments

A late summer meal at one of KTown’s classic BBQ joints…

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Dirty Dozen at La Paella

December 20, 2021 | 0 Comments

Spanish wine night at venerable Beverly Hills Spanish La Paella…

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Favori Dinner

December 9, 2021 | 0 Comments

Favori is an old-school Vietnamese place down in Orange County but it was well worth the drive for an epic wine dinner…

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Silk Worm Road – Guan Dong Da Yuan

November 8, 2021 | 1 Comments

Stop #3 on our June SGV Adventures led to a big wine dinner…

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Marino al Fresco

October 1, 2021 | 0 Comments

A lovely evening enjoying LA’s covid-spurred embrace of patio dining…

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Little Saigon Crawl 2021

September 28, 2021 | 1 Comments

Herein is detailed our first post pandemic Vietnamese crawl — always a great time!

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Post OOToro

September 3, 2021 | 0 Comments

Our favorite super far away super delicious Japanese restaurant is still in great form…

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Meating of Champions

August 23, 2021 | 0 Comments

The winners of past Dirty Dozen blind tasting dinners gather for a grand red “taste off”…

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Reaching New Heights at 71Above

August 16, 2021 | 0 Comments

The most epic dinner in over a year — hehe — but seriously this was a pretty incredible dinner at all levels. 71Above really hit the food and service out of the park…

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Rice Yummy

July 13, 2021 | 0 Comments

Smaller more casual Shanghai restaurant by the owners of Shanghai #1 Seafood Village…

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Dirty Dozen Crustacean

July 7, 2021 | 0 Comments

Arguably the “fanciest” Dirty Dozen location yet…

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Return to Rocco’s

June 21, 2021 | 0 Comments

The incredible House of the Borgese’s is a fitting “return to form” after over a year not going out…

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Crustacean Cru

June 5, 2021 | 0 Comments

The post-lockdown post-vaccination dabble back into fine dining deserves something really epic…

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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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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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