Month: July 2012
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Shunji News: Sushi Special, Opening for Lunch Hopefully Soon
I’ve made no bones about my love for Shunji Japanese Cuisine on Pico near Bundy. It was where I had my first omakase, and it’s a place that I’d recommend to anyone who wants to have both high quality sushi and fantastic cooked dishes. His amazing $80 kaiseki-esque omakase does not include a formal sushi […]
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Son of a Gun
After I struck out at Animal one night during the last week of legal foie gras, I decided to try its sister restaurant, Son of a Gun. I had heard good things about its ginger beer, brewed in-house, and its bite-sized lobster roll, and I had enjoyed my first visit to Animal, so my expectations […]
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SUGARFISH’s shari–What is this I don’t even
Apologies in advance to my waiter today at SUGARFISH. I did not mean to mislead you when I answered “good” to your inquiry on how my meal was. It was just a reflex response to the question you posed. I wish I could take it back, because it really was not good. I had the […]
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Shunji in Spring
I’ve tried to go to Shunji Japanese Cuisine several times this week and have failed miserably each time. It has been frustrating me all week, so I decided to channel all that energy into writing a review for a visit from April, which was my third time to Shunji, the first two having occurred only […]
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Three Restaurants, One Night (Animal, Red Medicine, Hatfield’s)
I put together a mini-food tour a few Saturdays ago, the primary purpose of which was to try some foie gras dishes. I cover the foie gras dishes on my other blog, but I did have some non-foie dishes, so I thought I’d write up the whole evening here.