The post-lockdown post-vaccination dabble back into fine dining deserves something really epic…
Adding yet another top KBBQ place in Koreatown to the roster…
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…
The blind tasting sub group of the hedonists, the Dirty Dozen, crushes Lawry’s with a blind tasting of 2000 and older Bordeaux…
A composite review of one of Garden Grove’s best Vietnamese places based on several visits…
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…
We decided to try some new Peking Duck places in the “Far East” SGV and this was first on the “hit list”…
Tony Lau takes lets us in on yet another great Cantonese find…
Third time is even more of the charm at the amazing House of Borgese…
Chef Mirko Paderno cooks up some of Yarom’s “fresh shot” wild boar…
First serious dinner of the the new year is a doozy — a fabulous game night at the Borgese house in Santa Monica…
The last Chinese meal of 2019 was a huge Hong Kong style banquet at Ho Kee Cafe Arcadia…
Trying out one of the cart palaces in the SGV for some retro dimsum…
Awesome holiday Vietnamese featuring all sorts of goodies including Yarom’s fresh shot wild boar, snails, alligator, catfish and more…
An awesome 10 vintage Harlan vertical with lots of steak…
An awesome evening of Grange and other “hearty reds” at Pasadena’s The Royce steakhouse…
Every Sunday in December 2019 included a different SGV adventure and this is the first, featuring some whole pig and other assorted Cantonese delicacies…
Second time in the same weekend for a huge banquet at Capital Seafood Beverly Hills — this time a Dirty Dozen blind Champagne tasting with a menu designed by moi…
Another juicy 5 stop mega-crawl down in Westminster where we sample not one, not two, but five awesome Vietnamese places in one day!
The Hedonists soft open the new Dà Lat Rose, a gorgeous high end second restaurant above Crustacean in Beverly Hills…
