May 2011
5 posts
Dear white people: do not fear the lengua
Good-natured white guy behind me in line for Chimu (the new Peruvian downtown rival to Mo-Chica): “Hmm, should we get lamb shank or tongue?”
Other good-natured white guy next to him: “Ew, tongue? I’m going with the lamb shank.”
And there you have it folks. The caucasian fear of beef tongue, front and center. Now, to the friend’s credit, he professed his own...
Sea of humanity
Third Street east of La Cienega is getting crowded as shit. Lots of new eateries amidst taxpayer-subsidized urban development programs. One of these new places is a really tiny, casual pizza joint called Olio.
Pretty decent pizzas (no beer or wine served yet), although despite the waiter’s protestations to the contrary, the burrata was added a little too early to the burrata margherita,...
More carbs, please
Two of the very best things at Sotto, a new Italian restaurant located a mere mile away from my apartment and the Fox network lot, are not pictured below amongst the sardines with fennel and crushed olive-pistachio vinaigrette or the highly regarded casarecce (braised lamb ragu, egg and pecorino).
No no, my friends - two of the very best things I tasted here are the chickpea panelle and the...
Let's revisit the LA County "A" ratings, shall we?
When people alternately describe a restaurant as having both “great food” and also being in kind of a “dumpy area”, you know for a fact I am going to kow-tow it immediately to such a place. The City of Angels is built upon such eateries: sublime omakase sushi joints located in barren strip malls, great Chinese haunts located in nondescript Alhambran bomb shelters, and the...
I might hurl
Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino in any non-“Heat” movie.
Expensive furniture and little children.
Jean shorts/sandals/tank tops and any guy.
These are things that are independently non-offensive, but nauseating when thrown together.
You can add a “John O’Groats bacon and cheddar biscuit” and the “Santa Monica stairs workout” to the list as well.
John...