Sawtelle Kitchen used to be this charming tiny rustic yoshoku (Japanese western food) house on the westside Little Tokyo Sawtelle street. You stopped by there always for their Japanese cutlet/curry/lunch set, even when you’re by yourself. Then they closed down and bought the neighboring vintage clothes store and remodeled for what felt like half a […]
Archive for the ‘12: Sawtelle’ Category
October 18, 2006
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Yashima (Sawtelle)
By Freda in 12: SawtelleLunch with 2 friends here. One person got the Curry Don and two of us got the Bento Lunch set of the day: Salmon $9. Incredible~ I didn’t know about this well hidden Japanese restaurant, up on the 2nd floor of a plaza (without visible signate from outside). Normally I wasn’t too thrill about bento […]
October 16, 2006
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Cake House Galleria (Sawtelle)
By Freda in 12: SawtelleA new bakery opened at the corner of Sawtelle & Olympic plaza, replacing the old charming Japanese Bakery (with delicious cakes and wood craft food miniature buttons on chalk board) that was sadly close. The new bakery is actually the new branch of Cake House Galleria of Koreatown. The interior was all white minimal (with […]
Tags: Macaron, Patisserie
June 5, 2006
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Phoreign (Sawtelle)
By Freda in 12: SawtelleA new Vietnamese (Japanese owned?) restaurant was opened next to Blue Marlin and I finally tried it because someone told me their simmered pork is supposedly better than this. But I didn’t see it on the menu nor it looked like they’d have it!? The menu looked very generic and very simplified-for-American. The mushroom and […]
Tags: Vietnamese
May 18, 2006
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gr/eats (Sawtelle)
By Joan in 12: SawtelleHad to grab a quick eat before the movie, so we went to the nearby eatery gr/eats. An off-shoot from the Giant Robot store, you know that you can’t expect much of the food. Their menu are mostly Japanese stuffs but they also have burger, Pasta, tacos, meatballs…^^;; Johnathan got the Chicken Katsu Don and […]
Tags: Japanese
