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Tasting Anger at the Avocado Grill

February 16th, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Filled with anger.

Larchmont in Hollywood is a delightful little street that is a nice change from what you would typically consider Holywood to be.  There are some great restaurants and shops that usually treat me pretty well.  My most recent visit to that street, however, only led me to a meal of disappointment.  This came at the hands of the Avocado Grill, a pretty simple Mexican place that reminded me a bit of places like Qdoba.

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Pizza the Hollywood Way at Village Pizzeria

August 14th, 2009 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit
It's like half of my pizza is dead.

It's like half of my pizza is dead.

Village Pizzeria in Hollywood is LA’s version of New York pizza.  Located on Larchmont Street, it isn’t really a Hollywood-style place at all, which is pretty comforting to someone like me who doesn’t work in the entertainment industry.  To test the place out, I went with a friend of mine.

Since we were unable to compromise on a pizza that we both liked, we decided to go halfsies.  I got my half in the pepperoni style, while she agreed to the pepperonis, but also ordered a disturbing fungus called mushrooms.  Unnecessarily worried, I also ordered some garlic rolls in the expectation that the pizza wouldn’t be enough food for me.

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Beer Me Some Bell’s Oberon

Look like summer to you?

It’s really not summer until you’ve had some Oberon.  Sure, the weather may be warm, the grass may be green and the county may be forcing you to water your lawn only on odd-numbered days, but in truth, none of this matters until you get some Oberon in you.  Now, you may be wondering, “What is Oberon?”  If you turn to Wikipedia (the source of all knowledge), you will be lead to believe that Oberon is the king of the fairies.  But this is just hogwash.  In fact, Oberon is more likely to be a king of beers.  No, not the king of beers…some brewery in St. Louis has that copyrighted.

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