‘west hollywood’


Getting Back to Basix

January 3rd, 2011 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

This is half of a chicken.

Ordinarily, I am pretty bothered when a place takes a word as simple as “basics” and turns it into “basix.”  This kind of goes against being called “basic” because it has overcomplicated a basic word.  So, with these overcomplicated thoughts in my mind, I headed into Basix Cafe in West Hollywood, not knowing if should expect something basic or otherwise.  What I found was a nice mid-sized cafe with a nice variety of menu items ranging from pizza and pasta to fried chicken and sandwiches.  They also had unvegan unfriendly salads and other such dishes, but there were certainly enough vegetable-free dishes to make me like the menu. Continue Reading»


Juiced by Lucy at Barney’s Beanery

October 14th, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Looks so innocent.

Ever since I learned of the existence of the Juicy Lucy, my life goal has been to chomp down on one myself.  Just to tear it open with my teeth until the insides flowed out was something I thought would give me great pleasure.  You see, a Juicy Lucy is something special and not-surprisingly comes from the Midwest.  Minnesota to be exact.  Rather than being content with the old ways of the cheeseburger, the innovative Minnesoootans decided to stuff their burgers with cheese, giving the burger a molten core of cheese just waiting to be unleashed.  That is the essence of the Juicy Lucy and although I assumed I would have to make one on my own because I live far from Minnesota, I managed to find it on the menu at Barney’s Beanery in West Hollywood. Continue Reading»


Eating Like a Human at Animal Restaurant

July 22nd, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Drink up you coward.

On of the big perks of running a meat blog is the number of restaurants people recommend to me.  I always do my best to check these places out, but no restaurant has been recommended to me quite as voraciously as Animal Restaurant.  But Animal is not the kind of restaurant you visit every day.  It resides in that level of restaurants deemed “For Special Occasion Only.”  But last week a special occasion rolled around:  my birthday.  And to celebrate the fact that I have remarkably survived on this planet for 26 years, my perfect girlfriend wanted to celebrate by taking me to dinner at Animal.  Like I said, perfect. Continue Reading»


A Birthgay at Hamburger Mary’s

June 11th, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Care for a gay drink?

For her birthday, my roommate decided she wanted to turn one year older in a big, gay fashion.  And what gayer place to go than to Hamburger Mary’s in West Hollywood?  Unfortunately her day of birth didn’t fall on a Wednesday night for Drag Queen Bingo, so instead we settled for their Tuesday night all-you-can-eat Latino heat tacos.  The prospect of unlimited tacos for eight bucks sounded great to me, but the place was called Hamburger Mary’s and I felt as though I needed some sort of burger. Continue Reading»


The Oki Dog of Destiny

March 22nd, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Doesn't look like much...

From the moment my buddy told me about Oki Dog months ago, I knew that this incredible hot dog concoction would make its way into my belly.  After months of driving by the sketchy part of the west side (so close to West Hollywood, yet a world away) in which Oki Dog resides, I finally got my opportunity to consume this behemoth.  It happened on one fateful night when an old pal of mine decided he was going to eat his way through Jonathan Gold’s 99 Things to Eat in LA Before You Die.  Eating through that list is likely to cause death anyway, especially if it is populated by foods like Oki Dog. Continue Reading»


Not Quite the Best of Mediterranean

November 18th, 2009 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit
Get that green stuff out of here.

Get that green stuff out of here.

It was a night for delivery and looking through LAbite, we found a good-looking Mediterranean place to order from it was called Best of Mediterranean (BOM), which is quite a boast to be put in a name, even for a place in West Hollywood.  Obviously a place by that name had to be checked out.  I was too hungry for a schwarma sandwich, so I ordered the chicken schwarma dinner plate.  This came with hummos, tabouli, rice and garlic sauce.  Knowing that tabouli is some strange mix of greens, I tried to order without it, but the website wouldn’t allow me.  This was a big fail on the part of both LAbite and BOM, because many other restaurants allow you to customize dishes.  Unfortunately, I knew that vegetables would be dying for my sake that night and wouldn’t even have the pleasure of being digested. Continue Reading»


Taco Tuesdays at The Spanish Kitchen

October 13th, 2009 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit
Objects in picture are smaller than they appear.

Objects in picture are smaller than they appear.

Looking to once again find a winning Taco Tuesday, I headed to The Spanish Kitchen near West Hollywood to see what they had to offer.

What they had to offer was pretty impressive.  They had a huge selection of tacos ranging from adobo grilled chicken to spicy shrimp and all were priced at 2 bucks.  At the time, each meat automatically came with its own salsa, but I see now that the menu offers every salsa with every meat so the eater can customize to their heart’s content.  Despite not having this option before, they still had some fun-looking tacos.

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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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