Gold Dig #63 Connie and Ted’s is the big place with the swooping ceiling on a main stretch of West Hollywood that on Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants list, he calls a “clam shack”. Inside is an open kitchen and a bar. Outside is a fantastic patio, which unfortunately looks out onto the parking lot…
Tag: Ice cream
Osteria Mozza Restaurant Review
Gold Dig #56 Grouped together as “Mozzaplex” on Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants list are these four Italian eateries – Pizzeria Mozza (pizza as you might have guessed), Osteria Mozza (more formal restaurant), Chi Spacca (meat-focused), and Mozza2Go (takeout counter). We tried Osteria Mozza, which was packed even on a weeknight, with every seat at…
Post & Beam Restaurant Review
Gold Dig #45 Post & Beam is the only restaurant on Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants list in the Crenshaw District. I find it strange that such a cool, modern restaurant is located in Baldwin Hills Plaza, but at least the mall location means plenty of parking. The inside has a big bar seating area where…
Far East Plaza Restaurant Review
Gold Dig #44 Similar to Grand Central Market, Far East Plaza brings a bunch of eateries together in a Chinatown shopping center. The plaza as a whole is on Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants list. While I’m conflicted about the notion of including a grouping of restaurants that vary in food type and quality onto…
Eating the Big Apple
Last year I visited a friend in New York for a few days. A couple weeks prior to the trip, he texted me to ask what I wanted to do while I was there. I sent him back a long list of eateries I wanted to check out. His response – “So I get that…
Museum of Ice Cream
It’s a museum, dedicated to ice cream. Not only are there yummy installations around every corner, many meant for you to interact and play with, but there are also several treats you actually get to eat! It’s like they built this place just for me. Though lots of other people must have had the same…
What Happens in Vegas
Well in my case, what happens in Vegas is something I am posting for the whole world to read about. Vegas has become a city not just of absurdly decadent buffets and outsized eating experiences often attached to celebrity chefs, but a true food destination with stellar eating experiences on and off the strip. Those…
Boozy Sundae Bar
So I go visit my parents for the holidays. The night I arrive, we are sitting around chatting after dinner, and we get onto the topic of ice cream (not surprising if you know me at all). I comment that Baileys is really good on vanilla ice cream. My dad responds that Amaretto is great…
City of Gold
City of Gold is a documentary in which Jonathan Gold explores the food culture of LA. Given my little side project of working my way through Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants list, seeing this movie was a must for me. I was so excited to hear that they would be doing a City of Gold event at…
Polenta Budino with Plum Marmaletta
Sheana texts me one afternoon to say that she has clipped a recipe for Polenta Budino with Plum Marmaletta from her Bon Appetit magazine, and would I like to come over to make some with her. I dunno what a Budino is, and I guess I betta learn about a Marmaletta. But she mentions something…