Research is the key. I found this supposedly Cal-French restaurant (more like American), even though it’s listed as $$$, they have casual business lunch menu. The place looks sophisticated, the waiters dressed in black silk and all…but they were playing lame-ass pop songs ^^;; They gave us bread (good) and olives (too soaked and mushy). […]
Tags: American
Drove out to the nearby Manhattan Beach today, it is beautiful~ It’s a beautiful day and so nice to see the ocean. There’re lots of cute shops and nice beach houses. We venture inside this Greek cafe called Old Venice as a random pick. Unfortunately it suck (stepped on land mine right away). ^^;; Sausage […]
Tags: Mediterrean
I found that Bistro L’Hermitage is quite near where I work so I drove out there for lunch. MY GOD that little place is fullhouse (mostly from Sony?) and still only ONE waiter working the place. I waited 10 minutes for menu. The bread is dramatically downsized compare to weekend. 🙁 “A Cheval” Ham & […]
HAPPY NEW YEAR~ It’ll take awhile to get used to using ‘2005’ (actually I was constantly confused whether last year was 03 or 04…as if unconsciously I’ve always wanted the time to freeze)! Two cakes from a local Taiwanese bakery chain Cathy Bakery. The Raspberry one is a birthday cake for my mother (Jan 1 […]
Tags: Cake, Patisserie
The last entry of 2004…. Finally tried Xiomara, the more upscale sister restaurant to one of our favorites: Atlantic Cafe. But unlike Atlantic which was strictly Cuban, Xiomara is a fusion of French, Spanish, Cuban and Asian cusine. They don’t open for lunch during weekends and their dinner is too expensive for me to afford […]
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