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Ninjin: home of the spicy monkey balls
We spent three long years searching the Westside for sushi that was not only good, but also not extraordinarily overpriced for what you get. Our search ends at Ninjin.
The service is pleasant, the fish is fresh, the sushi is reasonably sized, and the lunchtime sushi combination is a sight to behold. It’s composed [...]
The History of Chinese Food in Los Angeles
Pick up some interesting food trivia at this panel discussion to be held at the Mark Taper Auditorium of the Los Angeles Public Library this Saturday, June 10 at 10:30 AM.
Sponsored by the Culinary Historians of Southern California, a FREE panel discussion moderated by Sonia Mak, Curator of the Chinese American Museum, featuring as [...]
Join the Eat Street Club!
From Losanjealous:
Local hip hop duo, People Under The Stairs pays tribute to over 30 Southland fast food joints on their recently released track, Eat Street. This not only gives Los Angeles a much needed fast food anthem, it provides area foodies with a new badge of honor: The Eat Street Club.
To become an official [...]
How to eat cheap and fast at McCormick & Schmick’s
Heretofore, we never put McCormick & Schmick’s into the lunch rotation because we thought it was too pricey, with most lunch dishes in the $12-15 range. However, it turns out that not only can you order from an array of sandwiches from $7-10, there are also four to five daily lunch specials that can [...]
Brunch at 17th Street Cafe
Brunch is my favorite meal of the day–all the best traditional breakfast foods, none of the waking up early, plus mimosas! So when I read in the January issue of British InStyle magazine that celebrity expat Naveen Andrews’ favorite brunch place is Santa Monica’s 17th Street Cafe, I was there before I could realize [...]
Pub trivia Sunday night at Finn McCool’s
Given the legend of Finn McCool and the Salmon of Knowledge, it’s only appropriate that one can now play pub trivia every Sunday night at 8 PM at Finn McCool’s on Main Street in Santa Monica.
Finn’s main claim to fame is that it was painstakingly taken apart in Dublin and reassembled in Santa Monica after [...]
Nawab of India
“When you’re crazy about curry, that’s fine but no matter how much you love curry, you have too much of it, it takes the roof of your mouth off. And then you never want to see curry for a really, really long time but you wake up one day and you think… god I really [...]
No more cigar night at Schatzi’s?
Yesterday I called to make reservations for cigar night at Schatzi’s, which used to be held on the first Monday of every month. The Austrian on the other end of the phone seemed confused, since it had been cancelled and there had not been one for the last four months. When I pointed [...]
