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Getting Spicy at Agra Indian Kitchen

November 6th, 2009 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit
Too many onions all up in my chicken.

Too many onions all up in my chicken.

With one of those strange restaurant.com gift certificates in hand, my girlfriend and I set off to try Agra Indian Kitchen in Venice.  Kitchen is an appropriate name for the place because it was only slightly larger than a kitchen.  Luckily, though, one table was open when we arrived and we were seated immediately.

The menu looked pretty good, despite its massive vegetarian section.  I was stuck in the bread are for a long time, trying to figure out which sort of naan or other bread we should get to start the meal.  In the end, we kept it pretty simple with garlic naan , but also experimented with some cheese naan.  The cheese naan was kind of like an Indian version of a quesadilla.  There wasn’t a ton of cheese in it, but the bread was like an edible pillow, in a good way. Continue Reading»


Going Global at Plan Check

Fries of the world.

A couple of weeks ago, The Backyard Bite invited me to The Burger Culture Clash, sponsored by Stussy (which apparently still exists) and Plan Check. Plan Check, by the way, is a sort of new (since February) restaurant in West LA with Chef Ernesto Uchimura of Umami Burger fame. As my love of burgers, especially those of the umami variety, I jumped at the opportunity.

Although I arrived alone, I was not the only lone eater. Just next to where I was seated, I met e*star LA and we decided to share a meal called loneliness, because it’s better than eating alone. We made quick friends over our respective blogs and Midwestern roots, then got to work at dissecting the special menu, which Plan Check will be featuring for the next month if anything tickles your fancy.

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