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Babita Mexicuisine
1823 S. San Gabriel Blvd., San Gabriel 91776
(626) 288-7265
$20-$50 per person
Lunch: Tu-F 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
Dinner: Su, Tu-Th 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm; F-Sa 5:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Bottom Line: Think good Mexican food is all tacos from the side of a truck? Think again. And again. And again.
On a slow night at [...]

One of my favorite restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley has always been La Parisienne. Imagine my delight when I found out that the owners have opened up a sister restaurant, Marla’s. Marla’s is still fairly new, around since March 2005. While it seems this restaurant has everything down, the only thing [...]

Well… kind of… It’s been a while since I’ve done a dumpling review, so I was determined to write at least one entry about dumplings this summer. Despite that good plan, things didn’t quite pan out that way. I had heard about a restaurant whose dumplings rival those of Din Tai [...]

One of my friends introduced me to Fosselman’s Ice Cream Company. He was surprised I had never heard of it before. MSN put Fosselman’s on its top 10 ice cream places in the U.S. in 2003 and 2004, L.A. Magazine awarded them with the Best Malt award in 2004, and CitySearch calls them [...]

With a name like Cafe Peach, you would expect more peach items on the menu. The name also implies a little, homey hole-in-the-wall. Granted, Cafe Peach is a hole-in-the-wall, but it’s actually on the verge of trendy. Once inside, you see modern artwork by Robert Brady on display (and for sale), creating [...]

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Noodles, like people, have their own diverse community of different makeups and textures. The pasta or noodle aisle at any market is a huge melting pot, really: there are egg ones, rice ones, wheat ones, short ones, long ones, hollow ones, twisty ones, skinny ones, fat ones. Fat ones. Did I say fat ones? Because [...]

You know when you drive by a place and you have the sudden urge to make a quick u-turn into the place?
That’s what happened to me the other day. I was on my way to watch the Big (yet very disappointing) Game at my friend’s place in Alhambra when all of a sudden, I saw [...]