Category: Small Plates
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The Wallace
Sometimes it takes visiting a new place to discover a, well, still relatively new place, but not as new as the newer new place. Um, yeah. Anyway, I “discovered” The Wallace when I went to check out Hanjip, a new Korean BBQ restaurant in Culver City–yes, I’m behind on my post for my visits there […]
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Rustic Canyon Wine Bar
My wife and I were both born in June, so usually we do some epic eating this time of year. For our last birthday, we had an amazing, simple, salmon-centric lunch at Shunji. This year, we decided to celebrate with a pair of dinners at a pair of restaurants that Zoe Nathan and Josh Loeb, […]
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Michael’s Santa Monica
One of the mainstays of fine dining in Los Angeles, Michael’s in Santa Monica is a 36-year-old institution. Through the years, its kitchen has been the training ground for some of the best chefs in the city, and the country. A 1997 L.A. Times article titled “The Six Degrees of Michael McCarty”—the online archive of […]
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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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Winter Omakase at Shunji
[This is the first review in my “Three Winter Omakase” series. Winter Omakase Counter at Sushi Taro is the second. Winter Lunch Omakase at Kiriko will be the third.] Last month I returned to Shunji Nakao’s eponymous Japanese restaurant on Pico near Bundy for another amazing omakase experience. I consider my first omakase there last […]