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Osteria La Buca

I love to catch up with friends and use that as a pretense to try new restaurants. Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy the company of my buddies, but I also enjoy EATING. Killing two birds with one stone is how I like to think about it. So when it was time to spend some…

Josie

The last outting with Dumpling Man’s friends was at Osteria Mozza. How do you follow up that?!?! EXACTLY! There’s no follow up to Osteria Mozza. Nothing even comes close. Josie had the unfortunate luck of being our next spot for dinner. Not that I was ever really comparing Josie’s to Mozza. It’s totally different cuisine,…

Cafe Brasil

Who doesn’t love meat? Well, I suppose vegetarians don’t, but the rest of us usual enjoy dead animal to feast upon. Who does meat best? Well I guess that’s just a debate for the ages. Is it Koreans? Brazilians? Americans? Argentinians? Ah who knows, but I enjoy it all! I went to try a new…

Vien Dong (The Best Northern Vietnamese Food in Westminster!)

When you think of Vietnamese food, what do you think of? Pho , right? What else do you think of? Spring rolls? The more informed foodies may know of rice noodles and broken rice. And then what? There’s a whole other world when it comes to Vietnamese food. I am referring to Northern Vietnamese food….

Portland Food Carts

LA has food trucks. Portland has food carts. What’s a food cart? At first, I thought it would be cheap fast food to go, that was not so good, but its more along the lines of the food trucks. Really good food to go, but probably not as innovative as the LA food truck scene….

Mario’s Peruvian

I went to this place a while ago but have never been able to go back. I love lomo saltado. I was quite taken aback when I had lomo saltado for the first time. It was at the UCLA dormitory cafeteria. I was really surprised to find that lomo saltado is like a dish my…

Harajuku Crepe

That stretch of Little Santa Monica over by Rodeo and Beverly is filled with high end shopping and cute little shops. Before Harajuku Crepes came along, the same space used to be occupied by Fulfilled which was pretty tastey but overpriced and probably led to its downfall. I think Harajuku Crepes could go down that same path….

Lemonade

I’m a Yelp snob. I am hesistant to try a new restaurant unless it has great reviews/ratings on Yelp. There are always exceptions of course. Anyways, I had heard about Lemonade some time ago through Blackboard Eats (a great foodie 411 for those who want to be in-the-know). I had no intention of trying the place until…

Patina

What is a “shill”? Wikipedia describes a shill as a “person who is paid to help another person or organization to sell goods or services. The shill pretends to have no association with the seller/group and gives onlookers the impression that he or she is an enthusiastic independent customer.” King Arthur (not the fabled one…

Pitfire Pizza

Dairy Queen (the person, not the fast food chain) really raved about this place. I liked the concept. Interesting twists on pizza, such as green eggs and ham pizza. We also tried the meatballs which were just OK, and the grilled steak salad which needed a better dressing. The place had a nice vibe, with…

Katsu-Ya @ Studio City

So long ago, when I first started Yelping, I added this place to my bookmarks of restaurants to try. It seemed like a more realistic option at that time when I was living in Monterey Hills and Dumpling Man was in West Hollywood. But somehow we never found ourselves in that neighborhood. Since moving to…

Hatfield’s

I’m making good headway on my lists of “To-Try restaurants.” This list is mostly of higher end restaurants, which doesn’t mean I only want to eat fancy foods. It’s just that these types of places are good to keep in mind in the event of any special occasions that happen to come up. Our outting…