Category Archive: dessert

Fraiche with Chef Ben Bailly

Recently I attended Street Gourmet LA‘s birthday party at Petrossian and there was a special announcement made that Chef Benjamin Bailly was leaving to head up another kitchen. Ben wouldn’t say where he… Continue reading

Traveling Around Asia in LA, Part III

Recently I informally  surveyed friends about discount codes like Blackboard Eats and special offers like Groupon. To my surprise, some preferred buying special offers. They have made a commitment and damnit, they were… Continue reading

Drinks & Dessert Roudup

  We are now two days away from the Minty’s Sexy Singles Holiday Soiree. A few weeks ago, I surveyed for great first date ideas. I think I may have come up with… Continue reading

Test Kitchen: Kris Tominaga & Phillip Pretty

Recently I attended a dinner at Joe’s in Venice and learned their new chef de cuisine, Kris Tominaga, was going to be at Test Kitchen along with Phillip Pretty of the London in… Continue reading

Fall Offerings at Rush Street

I was invited to Rush Street to check out their new Fall menu.  I am generally more of a Summer person than Fall but I love the fashion of Fall. And lately, I’ve… Continue reading

Flan vs Flan

I have been doing food crawls for almost four years now. I haven’t had too many sweets crawls as I tend to have a more salty tooth than sweet. Some friends of mine… Continue reading

Pie Pie Pie: simplethings opening soon

Last Friday, I was invited to check out simplethings, a new sandwich and pie shop opening soon on West 3rd Street, not too far from the Beverly Center. I walked into the cleanly… Continue reading

Joe’s Restaurant in Venice

I was invited to check out Joe’s Restaurant in Venice last week for dinner. Joe’s opened in 1991 on Abbot Kinney in the now-trendy neighborhood of Venice. When I arrived, Chef Joseph Miller… Continue reading

Ludobites 6.0

At the last Ludobites, I asked Krissy and Ludo (separately) where the next one was going to be at. Krissy said they were looking at four different locations but she was hoping for… Continue reading

Taste on Melrose

Next to seafood, my favorite food would be pork. And more specifically, pork chops. My memory of my grandfather’s simple grilled pork chops with green onion gravy is probably my favorite pork chop… Continue reading