‘restaurant week’

Electing to Eat at Lukshon

February 2nd, 2012 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Delukshus!

A while back, Sang Yoon opened up a place called Lukshon in Culver City.  For some, this was a time to rejoice, as this was the man behind the Father’s Office burger.  But for me, it was a time to…well…consider trying out Lukshon.  You see, if you know me, you know my disdain for the Father’s Office burger.  So it took until dineLA’s Restaurant Week to get me out to Lukshon.  I went with a sizable crowd, collectively known as the Suppah Club, and we had ourselves a seat at a massive table on Lukshon’s patio in Culver City. Continue Reading»

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Palihouse Goes All DineLA

January 31st, 2012 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Man salad? My assssss.

Well, it’s that wonderful time of the year again – dineLA’s Restaurant Week.  Yes, it’s the time of the year where I spend too much, eat too much, and still feel happy about it.  Unless, of course, I’m eating at Katana.  This time around, we went with a couple friends to Palihouse in West Hollywood.  I’d been to Palihouse once before, late at night when it was trying to be a bar/club.  It’s also a hotel.  But on this night, it was simply a restaurant to us. Continue Reading»

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Katana Means Sword in Japanese

February 16th, 2011 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Gyoza for one.

Katana (warning: turn down your speakers because their retarded site automatically plays loud bass) in West Hollywood is about as trendy as you can get for Japanese food.  Yet, to my surprise, when I was sent their DineLA Restaurant Week menu for a possible dinner, I saw only one sushi option.  With this in mind, I thought that perhaps the $34 fixed price would actually be worth it, so off we went to Katana.  Showing up last, I was greeted with a rousing “irasshai” (although I was a bit disappointed they didn’t go for the more formal “irasshaimase”) and found that some chicken gyoza (potstickers) had already been ordered.  This struck me as strange since we were about to order a fixed price meal, but I decided to roll with it. Continue Reading»

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Blood, Marrow and Toffee at Waterloo & City

January 31st, 2011 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Oh bloody hell.

Although it seems like the last Dine LA Restaurant Week ended a couple months ago, it seems that it has returned, which means a lot of food and some difficult choices for the unvegan.  These difficult choices usually stem from the fact that it is tough to find a veggie-free prix fixe menu.  Fortunately, Culver City has a relatively new restaurant called Waterloo & City with an unvegan-friendly restaurant week menu.

Waterloo & City is named after a Tube line in London that consists of two stops – one called Waterloo and the other called…Village.  Wait, no, it’s called City.  As you may be able to guess by the name, the restaurant serves English food.  That’s right, English food, also known as the worst international food ever.  The kind of food where when people go to England, the favorite thing they ate was Indian.  Well somehow the English food at Waterloo & City had garnered the place accolades for being one of the best new restaurants in LA, so despite the ancestry of their food, they had to be doing something right. Continue Reading»

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Meating Out at Fogo de Chao

October 21st, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

This is a calling card to unvegans the world over.

Ever since beginning my meat blog, Fogo de Chao in Beverly Hills has been in my sights.  I’ve eaten Brazilian food before, but I have been told over and over again that Fogo is the king of meatiness.  But it’s expensive.  Like a fixed price of $56.50 expensive.  But when Restaurant Week comes to town, that ridicu-price drops down to a more reasonable $44 bucks, including dessert.  So for my first Fogo experience, I made sure to go during Restaurant Week and was amazed with what that price bought me. Continue Reading»

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Somewhat Mal at Malo

October 20th, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

They didn't actually look this flourescent.

Although Restaurant Week has just concluded, I once again took the opportunity to try out a couple new places that I wouldn’t ordinarily visit.  The first was Malo in Silverlake, which is a Mexican Cantina.  Their menu wasn’t exactly exciting for me, but I still thought the place could surprise me.  The reason the menu wasn’t exciting was because there was really only one good unvegan option for both the appetizers and entrees. Continue Reading»

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Changing Plans at Upstairs 2

February 18th, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Care for a date?

So in the middle of dineLA’s Restaurant Week, we decided to pay a visit to Upstairs 2 for some dinner.  This little restaurant hangs out above the Wine House in West LA and if you didn’t know what you were looking for, you would probably never find it.  Luckily, we knew what we were looking for and found it just fine.  After parking on the roof, I found the restaurant to have a pretty swanky atmosphere that was just light enough to read the menus. Continue Reading»

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Doing the Arizona Restaurant Week at Bloom

October 23rd, 2009 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit
Oh cheesy joy.

Oh cheesy joy.

LA isn’t the only place in the world to offer a restaurant week.  Arizona also flexed their restaurant week muscles last month.  At $29 for a three-course meal for every restaurant listed (as opposed to LA, which has three different price levels), it’s important to pick the right place.  They also note that the price is $58 per couple.  Thank you, but I can do math.  I know that 29 x 2 = 58, so if you’re not going to offer me some sort of couples discount, I really don’t see the point of showing me this.  Mathematical anger aside, we decided to head to Bloom, a fancy American restaurant. Continue Reading»

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Another DineLA at One Pico

October 22nd, 2009 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit
Feeling crabby.

Feeling crabby.

DineLA extended the LA Food week to make it almost a full month, so I made sure to experience another of the participating restaurants.  This time it was One Pico at Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica.  It’s kind of tough to find, since very little of the building actually mentions the restaurant name, but once you realize that the restaurant is actually within a hotel, things become a lot more clear. Continue Reading»

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Taking Advantage of DineLA @ Royal/T

October 16th, 2009 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit
Phallic often?

Phallic often?

From the outside, Royal/T looks more like a Japanese art gallery than a restaurant.  The inside isn’t much different until you realize the women in the anime-style outfits are actually waitresses and the tables set up aren’t simply for a small cafe attached to a gallery.  Since I knew ahead of time that Royal/T was a restaurant, I was actually surprised to find how much of the space was dedicated to the art.  It gave the restaurant quite a unique atmosphere, which is great, but I was there for the food.

Since it’s restaurant week, I avoided the regular menu and only looked at their set menu.  Check it out here.  I started with the Crispy Spicy Tuna, got the Hanger Steak Frites for the main course and was planning to finish with the fresh fruits and vanilla custard.  Unfortunately they were out of this dessert and I later learned that they ran out of the Kobe Beef sliders.  To make up for the lack of dessert, though, they allowed us to order any dessert from their menu, so I chose the cheesecake. Continue Reading»

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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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A little stretch before eating at Don Pichon.

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