Category: Restaurant Review
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Restaurant Review: Max and Helen’s
If you know me, you know my favorite types of restaurants are diners, more specifically, those lovingly dubbed, “greasy spoon,” a moniker denoting a casual environment, cheap prices, and the prerequisite plumes of smoke. I grew up eating at the Woolworth diner with my grandmother. Yes, back in the day, you could go to a…
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Restaurant Review: South Beverly Grill
Hillstone Group. Ever since moving to L.A. I had heard the name reverberate from the mouths of guests and co-workers like some whisper of the mythological wendigo in the shrill winds of dark summer forest nights. Did you hear that? I think I just heard something. Hillstone, Hillstone…Did you hear that? Yes, Hillstone is the…
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Restaurant Review: Trejo’s Tacos
If you don’t know who this guy is you’ve probably never seen a Robert Rodriguez movie, or Heat, the greatest cops and robbers flick of all time. Here in the heart of L.A. you can throw a rock and hit a Trejo’s Tacos or one of his other culinary endeavors such as Trejo’s Donuts or…
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Pop Up Review: Smogen Sandwiches
These guys did a pop up over in Studio City at a place called Vintage Wine + Eats. I knew nothing about it. Jo is the one in the family with her thumb firmly on the pulse of what the influencers are pumping up. I have to say, it’s quite nice because I have no…
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Restaurant Review: Community Goods
There’s a new/old “restaurant” model going around these days. The pick up counter. No bathrooms, no waiters, nowhere to sit really. The big one to me is no waiters because they’re genuinely just awful and annoying to deal with. A necessary evil of having to own a restaurant…But the newish model is to just exclude…
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Restaurant Review: Republique
Yeah, the place you want to dislike but can’t bring yourself to hate no matter how hard you try. Why? Maybe because they do everything right, they’re always busy, and seem to execute all of it perfectly every time? If so, then why does everyone talk so much smack? No idea, but if I were…
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Restaurant Review: Ronan
Nowhere to go from the heat and opressive boredom of a kid’s park school event and craving something fresh and cold, possibly a salad and a draught of frigid sparkling water to soothe the parched membranes of our parental esophagi, we headed down Melrose to Ronan based upon one of Chef Fox’s past recommendations. This…
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Restaurant Review: Kuya Lord
I moved to swanky ass Hancock Park. Yes, far, far away from the digs in good old Santa Monica. Thanks to my red headed stepchild guardian angel, Vayu, I landed the Holy Grail job as a building manager. A couple hours of extra work a day in exchange for paying no monthly rent. A better…
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Restaurant Review: Found Oyster
It’s no secret that on the rare occasion I go out, I go to three different places. It’s either Birdie G’s, Found Oyster, or Korean BBQ. All three touch a nostalgia nerve for me, but in an elevated way. If you’re like me and you grew up or spent any time at all on the…
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Restaurant Review: Crudo e Nudo
First off, I’d like to mention that Crudo e Nudo is a sustainable restaurant business and not just from the perspective of providing overpriced local seafood and organic ingredients to the populace but the owners also treat their employees incredibly well. A few articles have already been written about Crudo e Nudo’s business model, what…
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Requiem for the Fatty Crab
I wear a stained t shirt that drives Jo crazy. It’s too small, there’s a giant oil blotch right in the middle, it only accentuates my ever growing dad bod. We have a rule now where I’m not allowed to wear anything stained or with a hole in it but this one remains. My old…
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Restaurant Review: Maple Block Meat Co.
We traipse along in our mundane, but necessary, routines and every so often there’s a glimpse of sunshine in the form of a loved one’s smile, the simplicity of a child’s innocent love, or surprising and delicious morsels of food. The latter occurred last night. A moment of bliss in the early evening. After a…
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