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Visiting LA - Help Me Dot i's
better if different wine is poured with each course. On previous L.A. trips, my favourite overall was at Citrus – but that was about 6 years ago. Other good meals were at Chinois (the lobster was outstanding, and the rest...
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Chowhound restaurant pet peeves
about a restaurant in Monmartre that we nicknamed Le Chien Chinois, but I’ll save it for another time. . . .
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Today's equivalent of Julia Childs?
I was at the newly remodeled Smithsonian American History Museum where they have Julia Child’s kitchen. I overheard a little girl ask who Julia Child’s was and her mom replied, “She's just like Rachel...
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LA - what would blow you away if you've been everywhere
in Beverly Hills or up in Malibu or out during their travels to NYC or Vegas. (I don’t know if the GC is site-specific, or whether you want it to be.) But while Puck’s headliners keep getting better, more cutting...
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Unquestionably The Absolute Best In America:
in Santa Barbara which is awfully good in its own right-most of the time. I’m really not focusing on more formal restaurants such as the French Laundry, Gary Danko (one of the best meals I ever had with a lengthy post...
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If you had to pick one neighborhood in LA to live in for best dining options, where would it be?
never stepped beyond before. You’d think there were Ringwraithes waiting for them in spooky enclaves of Mar Vista and West LA... As good as some of the food is West of Lincoln, you can only go to places like Chaya, Chinois,...
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Where are you a regular
Z sushi in Alhambra Cafe Beaujolais Eagle Rock Wolfgang Puck Express in Santa Monica- again, addicted to Chinois Chicken Salad, can’t help it! Tibet Nepal House in Pasadena La Fuente on Monte Vista in Highland Park...
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What makes LA a foodie city? Tell Me
. And lastly, though expensive doesn’t mean foodie, there are a group of restaurants that when put together say to me, this is a foodie town: Spago, Chinois, Bastide, Providence, Grace, Sona, Patina, Melisse, Cut, Craft,...
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Does a Chinese restaurant exist in Manhattan that doesn't drown its dishes with brown sauce, black bean sauce or other jarred glop?
As good as Shun Lee is for a NY restaurant outside of Chinatown, it pales next to a place like Chinois in LA. I think California has got the secret of lighter and fresher is much more appealing. Sometimes less is more.
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Summerlicious 2007
anyway. She wasn’t kidding. Actually I didn’t see the scallop as garnish. The soup itself needed to be put through a chinois or something (it was a little grainy) and it really just tasted more like heavy cream than...
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Top 10 Tastes of California [L.A. Area]
. Chinois on Main – Santa Monica – Cal/French/Asian. http://www.wolfgangpuck.com His Graduate student: Mako – Beverly Hills – Cal/French/Asian http://www.makorestaurant.com Dish recomendations – Several,...
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