At first we thought “Prada”?!? ^^;; and assume it’s Italian. But Prado is actually a latin and caribbean cuisine restaurant with cute interior. The bread is good!
Scallop with mango sauce $16 Very very yummy! The sauce has so many different flavors. All the sides (Plantain, Grill Veggie, fried potato, rice) are nice too. Salmon with lime sauce $12 Not mine, Stan said it’s very good though.
Tags: Caribbean
Order to go from Real Food Daily, an organic vegetarian gourmet restaurant opened by the personal chef of Danny DeVito. The entire menu is all innovative veggie gourmet, but I bet you it can’t compare to the Chinese Vegetarian restaurants (I’ve had a lot of really good ones). So I ordered the soup and special of the day. Holiday Fejitos Special $13.95 Letil Soup. MY GOD it is a NIGHTMARE!!! I thought ah-HA how interesting, Mexican food in v-version. The ‘meat’ are the bad tofu-meat, completely burnt. The sides are all very bad…totally reminded me of very bad trashy Mexcian food. The soup…so oily and tasteless. It’s just horrible beyond words. I took only one bite and that’s it.
Walked about 8 minutes from Stardust to the central main street with lots of shops and cafes. Very much epitomizes the vibe of Venice Beach, Mäni’s Bakery & Café is specialized in healthy organic food: sugarless, anti-artificial flavor+color and homemade. Lots of vegetarian and vegan items on menu. They sweetened the cake/jam with natural ingredients (fruits). I’ve bought a cake here before for a party and didn’t really like it…only because it was a carrot cake that I never liked. ^^;; Maybe I should try their chocolate truffle cake, which is claimed to be their best and most popular.
Fitting the neighborhood are the shops inside: gifts and art store inside cafes, to celebrate the art. The items are eccentric handmade clothes, gypsy-ish garments, handcraft home decor stuffs, paintings, new agey and eastern religion artifacts…etc. One store has bunch of photos of the owner and friends at Tibet and stuffs. ^^;;;
Cafe au lait Good!
Tomato Soup $3.5 The waiter make a note “it’s all vegan”~ a fact that I won’t care ^^;;; Yum!
Betty’s Famous Potato Pancake $6.95 with homemade Applesauce~ Jolly good! It’s like pancake + hashbrown I think? Forgot to take picture, but they also gave us a jar of very good raspberry jam. It is also homemade and very fresh fruit tasting.
Built your own burger! Freda’s Burger 😀 $6.95 Honey wheat bun, 1/3 lb. beef, caramelized onion marmarald, blue cheese, sauteed mushroom, hard boiled egg, mixed baby green and sprout. Result? Total failure…too much scattering volumetric pieces that simply won’t hold together as a burger. The patty is very good though, medium rare~
Tags: Burger
Rain pouring whole day. Took Tina and Jason to Amandine~ They bought 10 breads to take away! *0* I only bought three and they were eaten by my parents. They have really good coffee. The two soup Mushroom Creme and Tomato Vegetable are not mine. I tried a spoonful and both are pretty good.
Amandine Salad $8.5 Lot of stuffs: Tuna salad, cheese, ham, olives, mushroom…
Mushroom and Omlette Sandwich $8 Pretty good!
Pumpkin Tart $3.45 Yummy! Seems like this is their signature/popular item, I had the last piece. Caramel, Banana and Walnut $3.45 Just the right sweetness, sooo good!!!
Not mine. Strawberry Shortcake and Amandine Tart, look a bit too normal ^^;; Tina’s willing to try the least popular ones there. I taste a bit and they’re both good!
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