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The Santa Monica Farmer’s Market was hopping last Saturday morning. We haven’t been there since the holidays, so the produce had completely changed in our absence! We saw some wonderful strawberries, greens, mandarins and blood oranges.
We picked up:
–Black Kale (It looks simply amazing.)
–Yellow Cauliflower (We had this last night. It was a [...]

We heard on City Search that Culver City’s Backstage had great food and an awesome atmosphere. We grabbed a friend as we left UCLA for the evening and drove the crowded streets last Tuesday to visit the bar.
From the outside, there’s not much to see. Backstage’s sign has Sailor Jerry-esque printing [...]

K and A: We had been meaning to go to Warszawa for a long time. We see the sign every week on our way to brunch from the Farmer’s Market (hey, we like food-related routines!) and always comment that we need to eat there.
We went on a Thursday night at 8pm and the restaurant [...]

On our way back from our weekly trip to the Santa Monica Farmer’s Market, K. and I heard Colleen Flippo on KCRW’s program, Good Food. Colleen has a great website called The Cookbook Critic that reviews cookbooks, tests recipes, and provides yummy recipes as well.
This week’s haul at the Farmer’s Market included:
Empire [...]

K. and I went to the Farmer’s Market today down on the Promenade. The produce is changing by leaps and bounds. Many kinds of squash are starting to show up, much to my delight. One stall has featured amazingly sweet carrots (red, yellow, and orange) the past few weeks. Many [...]

A: I wanted to share two food-related websites that I’ve recently run into!
My friend just gave me a wonderful belated birthday gift from Cocoa Vino. I am now the proud owner of bonbons flavored with wine and spirits. My gift came beautifully boxed and it was tied with a little pink bow. [...]

A: So I’ve been using Open Table for a while now. For those of you who haven’t visited, it’s an online reservation website that allows you to browse through a number of restaurants, search places that have reservations for your time-frame, and gives you a $10 for every 10 reservations that you make using [...]

A: K. spent a portion of his childhood in Indonesia. Ever since he got back, he has searched long and hard for the perfect plate of nasi goreng and other gems of Indonesian cuisine. We’ve tried The Banana Leaf in the Farmer’s Market, Ramayani’s in Westwood, and had good food at both; recently [...]