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Dining in Cooks County

January 18th, 2012 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Say cheese!

You may think that as a meat blogger I am constantly defining which restaurants my girlfriend and I eat at.  Often that is the case, and for no other reason than that people are constantly giving me suggestions, but this weekend we reversed the trend and she took me out to dinner at a place from her own to-eat list.  The place was Cooks County in Mid-City and although a quick Google search will reveal no county named Cooks, there is certainly at least one Cook County (in Illinois), which may be some sort of basis for the naming of this restaurant. Continue Reading»


Beer Belly for My Fearless Belly

January 6th, 2012 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

There are peas in my cheese!

Two of the things I love most in this world are beer and my belly.  No, I don’t have a beer belly…much, but when a gastropub in Koreatown called Beer Belly opened up, I figured I had to try it out.  I was meeting a group of people, and arrived to find the place packed.  And this was not a big place.  Like about 8 tables and a few bar stools big, and all of them were loaded.  Plus, it was first come, first served, so we got to hang around the tables like vultures surrounded a wounded gazelle.  It was the tail end of happy hour, though, so I ordered a beer and hoped a table would clear out soon.  Fast forward thirty minutes and we’re still waiting when a woman working the place asks if we’re waiting for a table.  Uh, no, lady, we’re just standing here awkwardly for the hell of it.  She then proceeded to ask us if we wanted to be on the list.  This “list” was new to us, and apparently also new to her, as she told us she had just started it.  Well, at least we wouldn’t have to stand awkwardly any longer. Continue Reading»


More First Fridays with the Flying Pig

November 12th, 2009 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit
Who wouldn't eat from a bright pink truck?

Who wouldn't eat from a bright pink truck?

For my second course on First Fridays in Abbot Kinney, I headed out to one of LA’s newest food trucks, the Flying Pig.  When I first read about this Mexican-French fusion truck, I wasn’t too amazed by what I read.  Fusing Mexican food with Asian is one thing, but to try to fuse it with French as well seemed like a strange niche that I didn’t need to explore.  Lo and behold, my opinion changed when I saw the truck and the happy customers outside of it. 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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