Archive for the ‘Pasadena’ Category

Fine Dining @ Five Sixty-One

Friday, December 16, 2005 17:19 4 Comments

Want a $100 gourmet meal but don’t want to pay the full $100? Then Bistro 561 is the place for you! Located right next door to the Southern California School of Culinary Arts, the restaurant is the final test for aspiring new chefs. While dining here is still not exactly cheap, it [...]

This was posted under category: California, Dinner, French, Italian, Lunch, Pasadena, Spanish

Just Drinks (My Cupcake Avoidance Strategy)

Friday, October 28, 2005 22:25 4 Comments

Two great LA drinks for the Al-Anon crowd…

This was posted under category: American, Beverages, Coffee, Pasadena, San Fernando Valley

Supermarket Sushi

Monday, June 13, 2005 13:04 8 Comments

Whole Foods and Bristol Farms offer solid quality sushi and accomodate special orders.

This was posted under category: Dinner, Eastside, Japanese, Lunch, Markets, Pasadena, Westside

Café Atlantic - Cool Cuban Cuisine

Saturday, June 4, 2005 19:14 6 Comments

It has been a long week of eating non-stop and heavy indulgence. Lots of good food and happy hour. I know… it’s tough to be me. All this celebrating has a great deal to do with yesterday being my last day of work. So now that I am unemployed, I [...]

This was posted under category: Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch, Pasadena

Once Upon a Time In Pasadena: Puerco Pibil

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 15:56 8 Comments

The cook at Dona Rosa in Pasadena really needs to watch his back. Apparently he hasn’t seen Robert Rodriguez’s Once Upon a Time in Mexico in which Johnny Depp, who plays CIA Agent Sheldon Jeffrey Sands, shoots a cook for making a perfectly slow-roasted pork dish.
Agent Sands’ rationale: “It just happens to be [...]

This was posted under category: California, Dinner, Mexican, Pasadena
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