Category: Baked Goods

  • Superba Food + Bread

    Superba Food + Bread

    Venice’s Superba Food + Bread has had an interesting year so far, shuffling nearly all key back-of-house staff in the last couple of months–check Eater LA for the blow-by-blow details.  Having an unexpected Saturday evening free a few weeks ago, I decided to see whether the food was worth all the backroom drama. Pain d’Epi:  […]

  • Craftsman and Wolves, Happy Moose Juice, Xanath (San Francisco: Day Four, Part One)

    Craftsman and Wolves, Happy Moose Juice, Xanath (San Francisco: Day Four, Part One)

    I am in San Francisco this week for WWDC (Apple‘s Worldwide Developers Conference). I found out a few months ago I’d be able to attend, so of course, I made a list and asked for advice beforehand. Now that I’m here, I plan on posting a report as quickly as possible for each day, to […]

  • Sycamore Kitchen

    I’ve had Sycamore Kitchen on my radar ever since it opened around the same time I tried chefs-owners Quinn and Karen Hatfield’s eponymous Hatfield’s restaurant in 2012.  My meal at Hatfield’s was excellent, and I’m not sure what took me so long to try Sycamore Kitchen, but my wife, older daughter, and I finally tried […]

  • Sweet Rose Creamery (Revisitings)

    Sweet Rose Creamery (Revisitings)

    I (generally) devote a single post to my first visit to a new place (e.g., most recently Gjelina, Littlefork, Pizzeria Mozza) or for great individual meals at familiar haunts (e.g., Shunji, Kiriko), but I have a rotation of places I like to visit regularly that I haven’t posted on recently.  So I will be working […]

  • Sweet Rose Creamery 2:  Electric Pico-loo

    Sweet Rose Creamery 2: Electric Pico-loo

    Sweet Rose Creamery is a well regarded ice cream shop that opened in 2010 in the Brentwood Country Mart (actually in Santa Monica but bordering Brentwood).  Its co-owners are husband-and-wife chefs Josh Loeb and Zoe Nathan, of Rustic Canyon, Huckleberry, and Milo & Olive fame; and chef Shiho Yoshikawa, who is primarily responsible for developing […]