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A Grand Grilled Cheese at Grand Lux

April 5th, 2012 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Mmm, grilled meat sandwich.

Sometimes you are so hungry you’ll eat anywhere. Well not just anywhere, but the place closest to you that seems to have good food. Such was the case when I found myself eating at the Grand Lux Cafe in Beverly Hills. This is not meant to knock the place, but simply to say that this place has never been on my to-eat list and I probably never would have sought it out. To tell you the truth, the name simply sounded like an overpriced fancy restaurant and not what it truly is – a Cheesecake Factory with a different name. Continue Reading»

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Lord Stanley’s Sliders

February 23rd, 2012 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Mini-sandwich-riffic

Up in the valley is a place called Stanley’s that I have been hearing about pretty much from the day I started dating my fiancee. Very little about the valley is exciting, but Stanley’s is in a stretch of Sherman Oaks on Ventura that’s pretty cool, so I found myself surprisingly excited to go. Previously, I had heard they have delicious wings, but we were in a rush and I am not a man who rushes wings. Instead, I went with my arch-nemesis. Continue Reading»

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Tasty Tacos at Tinga

January 27th, 2011 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

A still life of Tinga.

On a Saturday night the girlfriend and I were sitting around feeling lazy.  Neither of us had eaten dinner, and we weren’t terribly hungry, but we knew that we needed some sort of food in our systems.  It had to be light, and as I looked over my list of restaurants I wanted to try, only one seemed to tickle our fancies.  This was a remotely new (8 months or so) restaurant called Tinga, in Mid-City.

The interior of Tinga has a nice wooden atmosphere that is almost like a bar except that it is BYO.  In the middle of the small seating area is a long communal table and the walls are lined with stools.  The ordering takes place at the counter and although the full menu is on the side wall, they also have paper menus for those who don’t want to stare awkwardly over the shoulders of fellow patrons. Continue Reading»

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Crunchy Beef from Sorabol

January 15th, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Does this look good to you? Why?

Since Korean BBQ has never let me down and the Century City food court has also never let me down, I decided to check out Sorabol, the Korean BBQ place in the Century City food court.  At the time it seemed like a great idea.  I walked up to their stand and saw a few different food items hanging out in heating trays, so I chose their beef short ribs.  They looked a bit dry, but the woman behind the counter ladled some sort of Korean sauce over them.  They came with noodles, rice and some vegetable sides.  I dismissed the vegetable sides and paid my 10 bucks, which I thought was a pretty good deal.  I was wrong. Continue Reading»

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Eating Meaty at Paul Martin’s

January 12th, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

There is nothing short about this rib.

If you’re getting tired of food truck writing, well, you are in luck.  Today unvegan is jumping back into the brick and mortar world with a visit to Paul Martin’s American Bistro.  Paul Martin’s is exactly the kind of restaurant a lot of Americans are looking for in the new decade.  A creation of restaurateur Paul Fleming and Brian Bennett, it isn’t too expensive, but is definitely upscale.  Perhaps more important than that is its supposed dedication to serving organic, sustainable and local foods.  It’s a great concept that I can get behind, but pretty ineffective unless the food is good.  Using my heightened unvegan senses, I checked them out for lunch to see if organic, local and sustainable translates into a good meal. Continue Reading»

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Korean BBQ Festival and Cook-Off

August 12th, 2009 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit
The lines were long, but not endless.

The lines were long, but not endless.

On Saturday, my friends and I headed down to Koreatown for the Korean BBQ Festival and Cook-Off.  Korean BBQ is known to be heavy in meat, so I felt this would be a great opportunity to tackle my daily meat intake.

The festival ran from 12:00-5:00 and although we arrived around 1:00, the lines were already getting pretty long.  I wasn’t too surprised by the long lines since the event was free, plus $10 per plate.

Assuming the longest lines had the best food, I jumped into one of the lines without

Tubs of meat roll by.

Tubs of meat roll by.

even knowing what it was.  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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So twisted.

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