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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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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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Mmm marbly.

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