‘Barbecue’


Finger Lickin’ at JR’s BBQ

February 17th, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Gimme some bone.

JR’s BBQ sits in a little nondescript building at the corner of La Cienega and Fairfax in Culver City.  Despite the many many times I’ve driven by there, I still had no idea the place existed until a buddy of mine suggested we check it out.  Once I found the place, we went inside and found an old timey place with a bunch of stools set up and a little dining area in the back with mismatched tablecloths, chairs and tables.  It was actually pretty cool to be in a place that seemingly cared a lot more about their food than the scene it would be eaten in.  We were the only people there, so we took our seats in the dining room and started looking at the menu. Continue Reading»


More Than I Could Handle at Joey’s Smokin’ BBQ

September 1st, 2009 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit
A whole lotta chicken

A whole lotta chicken

For lunch one day I headed out to Joey’s Smokin’ BBQ in Manhattan Beach.  I had heard that Luke Walton of the Los Angeles Lakers was somehow tied to the restaurant, which actually made me a little worried, but I still wanted some BBQ.  The place was pretty small and other than the Lakers championship pennant, there was really nothing else denoting that this was in any way related to Luke Walton.  Besides, half the restaurants in LA have Lakers pennants (I later found out that Walton essentially wrote a big fat check to get the place started, but it pretty much runs without him).  With this in mind, my fears of a generic BBQ restaurant were slightly assuaged. Continue Reading»


Beer Me Some Breckenridge Agave Wheat

The taste of skiing?

Colorado is definitely a beer state, and not just because Coors comes from the Rocky Mountain State.  No, it is also home to New Belgium (of Fat Tire fame) and seemingly countless other micro and craft breweries.  While in Breckenridge for a ski weekend, I decided I had to at least try one of these, and because it turned out to be the only one available at dinner, my choice happened to come from the creatively named Breckenridge Brewery.  The brewery, by the way, is actually no longer in Breckenridge, having expanded and moved to Denver in 1992.

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