Category: Coffee

  • Grand Central Market Tour (Eggslut, G&B Coffee, McConnell’s, Belcampo)

    Grand Central Market Tour (Eggslut, G&B Coffee, McConnell’s, Belcampo)

    Used to be, when friends and family visiting from out of town wanted a quick-and-easy way to get the “flavor” of Los Angeles, I would take them to the Farmers Market at 3rd and Fairfax.  It was one-stop shop(ping) for some decent eats, and for people watching, especially at the adjacent Grove shopping mecca.  Nowadays, […]

  • 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 […]