Author: The Offalo
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Night+Market: Eating the dineLA Menu
That biannual excuse to go hog wild (as if some of us needed an excuse) known as dineLA has concluded once again. Unlike last summer, when I partook of the dineLA deal at a half dozen restaurants, this summer I only dined at one: Night+Market. (Apparently the plus sign is silent–it is not “Night and […]
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Pork Belly’s Sandwich Shop
Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice has always had an interesting food scene, with some newcomers mixing it up with long-time establishments. One of the newest places is Pork Belly’s Sandwich Shop (originally named Belly Up–domain name registered and everything currently not working), which just opened yesterday. I had wanted to go opening day, but circumstances […]
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Tacolandia 2013
LA Weekly‘s inaugural Tacolandia food festival took place on Sunday, June 23, 2013, in the parking lot of the Hollywood Palladium. Anticipation had been building, with curator Bill “Street Gourmet LA” Esparza giving tours to the foodielites of the various participating taquerias, cocinas, trucks, etc., in the weeks leading up to the event. Tickets had […]
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Manhattan Beach Post
Chef David LeFevre‘s Manhattan Beach Post has been on my radar for the past year or so, and last month I finally got to go for dinner with my family after a long day at Disneyland (it’s kinda on the way back to the Westside from Anaheim), after failing to get in at its newly […]
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Two Afternoons at Paiche
Paiche, the self-described Peruvian Izakaya by Ricardo Zarate of Mo-Chica/Picca fame, opened in mid-April. Having never tried either of Zarate’s other two very well regarded restaurants, I was very excited that one of his restaurants was opening in MDR, close to my neck of the woods. On two separate sleepy Saturday afternoons in April I […]