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Sushi Tsujita Serving Lunch 7 Days a Week
It has been nearly a half-year since my dinner omakase at Sushi Tsujita. I haven’t been back for dinner since, but I have returned several times for lunch, where they have an assortment of chirashi/sashimi/donburi, raw fish and other ingredients, served on top of sushi rice. Special for lunch, they have $15 Chirashi Bowl that includes […]
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VINU Wine Bar’s $25 Foie Gras Tasting
If you’ve been living under a rock, you may have missed that the ban on selling foie gras in California has been lifted, though producing it in-state is still illegal. My feelings on foie gras are not as clear cut as you may think, but suffice it to say I do eat it, and I’ll […]
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Tar & Roses in Santa Monica
Surprisingly, it has been more than a year since I last dined at Tar & Roses. Wanting to remedy that sooner rather than later, I tried Reserve, a new concierge reservation app, to find a table. The service was able to get us a reservation for early evening on a Sunday, with just a day’s […]
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Qin West Chinese Cuisine on Westwood
Noodle soups are some of my favorite food, whether it’s Japanese ramen, Vietnamese pho, Thai boat noodles. Unfortunately, with the exception of ramen, it is relatively difficult to get authentic noodle soups on the Westside, particularly Chinese noodle soups. However, one restaurant, opened just a few months ago, has been a game changer on that […]
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Torihei Yakitori Robata Dining
Yakitori is, to borrow my friend Chris Hei’s oft-used phrase, so hot right now, to the point where trolls come to Chowhound to stir up trouble about whether the (in)famous Little Tokyo yakitori-ya Kokekokko (Chris’s review) would actually be closing permanently or reopening elsewhere after shuttering their current location next month (alas, the mods have […]
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