Lunch special: medium rare roasted beef sandwich (yum!) and pea soup. Goat cheese and Pear salad. There’s no longer free parking on the side street making going to this cafe either harder (as if the never ending confusing road construction wasn’t bad enough). My x’mas holidays consist of nonstop Holiday shopping…for my mother. I went […]
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December 27, 2005
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Le Pain Quotidien (Santa Monica)
By Freda in 16: Santa MonicaMojito-ish Mint Lemonade and Apple/Cherry Cider. Chocolate mousse cake. Quite good! My entire xmas feels like nothing by shopping (in a non-fun task way). And when you’re exhausted and wanted to sit down, LA is really seriously lacking non Starbuck sidewalk cafe with decent non-caffeine drinks and cakes…even at supposedly ‘made for walking’ section’ like […]
December 27, 2005
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Lulu’s (Temple City)
By Freda in 01: San GabrielBack to this Shanghai restaurant from this Old entry and again very impressed by it~ Too bad they don’t have crab meat dumplings, but this is incredibly good too. The skin is a bit thick but it’s so smooth and just melt in your mouth. The soup inside is delicious. Everything is very tasty. Both […]
Tags: Chinese, Dumplings, Shanghainese, Xiaolungbao
December 22, 2005
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Dean & Deluca (NYC: Midtown)
By Freda in 03: NYCThere are quite a few of Dean and Deluca cafes and gourmet markets in Manhattan, this one I stopped by for refreshment was the one in the background of the morning show ‘Today Show.’ The Raspberry cake is way too sweet and blah~~ yuk!
