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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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