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restaurant week ... day 3 ...

months in the making ... our third restaurant week outing involved craft in century city ... the restaurant of top chef judge tom colicchio ... and since we're all top chef fans, we had to give it a go ... very good …
post-bar action at the must bar ...

a small gig at a cafe in venice ... felicity's only been in town a few weeks and she's already got her finger on the pulse of the quasi-indie music scene ... so we met up w/ her and her grad school pals to listen to…
it's a no-go at boho restaurant ... (updated: boho sucks even more)

so we had planned a fine evening ... a nice tuesday dinner with friends at a new restaurant ... we had received an e-mail newsletter touting boho restaurant as a neighbourhood-friendly joint ... renowned chef, good at…
bbc's sports spectator spectacular ...

so shirley's still orienting herself for work ... and work hooked her up w/ a night at a nice hotel (embassy suites) and a pretty generous meal budget during her stay ... very swanky digs in the middle of nowhere (i'm…
one step forward ... two steps back ...

so the point of kogi bbq is to fuse taco truck cuisine and korean bbq cuisine ... but with all their successes on the road, they've decided to take it a step back and get a permanent stationary kitchen in some dive ba…
ivy's super-classy b-day wine adventure ...

so valentine's day was great ... a very mellow dinner at shirley's favorite thai place ... follow that up w/ a little kings of leon and a movie viewing afterwards w/ sweets and dessert wine ... we had to save up our en…
ivy's sushi b-day blowout ...

we just put some fish on the endangered species list at katsuya in encino ... short descriptions to follow ... yellowtail ... albacore and crispy onions ... 4.5 roll and robert roll spicy tuna on crispy rice ... lob…
restaurant week 2009 - week 2, day 5 ... let's wrap it up ...

so this was my final restaurant week outing this year ... citrus at social ... we haven't been to social hollywood in years ... but it's cathartic to return to the scene of the crime, no? let's see what they're about…
restaurant week 2009 - week 2, day 4 ...

so restaurant week is quickly coming to an end ... so we're tying up loose ends at the locanda del lago ... not necessarily a michelin star restaurant but an honorable mention in the guide, nonetheless ... and the menti…
happy new year ... and happy new restaurant week ...

so it's the lunar new year ... the year of the ox ... and what better way to celebrate than w/ seven courses of beef? and a whole catfish? ... yep, my folks wanted to do a nice little get-together and my mom heard th…