April 5, 2006 2

Hotcakes Bakes (Venice)

//// By in 15: Venice

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When I droved by Centinela I spotted a new cute pink signs among the mom n’ pops shops (and hardware industrial warehouses). What an odd unattractive place to have your bakery at (cheaper rent I guess? given they relocated from Westwood). It was newly re-opened for a couple days and it’s quite empty inside. The Leeks and Spinach Quiche is patchy and tasteless, and the crust rather hard and old 🙁 The sweets on the counter doesn’t look too appealing to me (cupcakes, fudge cake, brownie), but these Macaron are very good! The bakery space is wide open and the 2 lady owners were preparing some big catering job, I think they’re more for catering business than walk-ins. Though 2 more people came in because of the sign just like me. 😀

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March 31, 2006 4

Bay Cities Italian Deli (Santa Monica)

//// By in 16: Santa Monica, Favorite Food Entries

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My goodness this is the BEST sandwich ever! The always crowded and hard-to-park Bay Cities Deli tend to put me off, but their signature Godmother Sandwich is worth the trouble. The French bread is so well toasted and crispy that even my eat-while-work long time span it doesn’t get soggy. It has all kinds of italian ham (fresh and not salty at all) and cheese, jalapeno with vinaigrette. God I can still remember every heavenly bites as I’m typing… *q*

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March 31, 2006 4

Birthday Cake from RJ patisserie

//// By in 01: San Gabriel

DSC09517.jpgStrawberry mousse, very light and real fresh sweet strawberry tasting~~ The white chocolate flower petals get a bit messy though, but still pretty. I got it from the recently opened Arcadia branch of RJ Patisserie (originally at Hacienda Height), check it out.

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March 30, 2006 2

Cafe Brazil (Palms)

//// By in 11: West LA

DSC09502.jpgI took Joan to Cafe Brazil, (west LA is unfamiliar territory to her, she’s a Hollywood area person ^^;;). She had the dark chicken, a bit dry this time. I had the special Clam Pasta, very tasty and greasy, but the dark tiny canned clams are a bit off putting (which I avoided ^^;;). I would like to know what the chopped vegetables are (not shown in pic, they’re all layered at bottom), very chinese tasting, very crunchy in pasta!

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March 30, 2006 2

Grill Lyon (Little Tokyo)

//// By in 06: Downtown LA

Back to the very good Japanese French restaurant in Little Tokyo within the same top entry page ~ 😀
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Special of the night: appertizer Tuna wrapped in Daikon and Lobster puff (forgot the name), very good!

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Finally tried the Duck a L’orange (was out last time), very tender and smooth, so delicious~~ The dessert came with the Lobster special, I don’t like cold harden crepe but still it was nice. Oh I can come back here again and again. This time the owner seemed to have recognize us, she and the chef came out and greet us~ 😀

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