you’re absolutely right, this IS my kind of place.
i put it on my list.
THANK YOU for the heads up
Mmm, your plates from Flower Child look really great! I love places that are heavy on the veg. Thank you so much for your recommendation, @paranoidgarliclover! Will definitely check it out when I’m in the neighborhood.
A very satisfying breakfast burrito, accompanied by a literal Bang!Bang! (one orange-flavored, the other pineapple) at Marty’s (on Pico, in West L.A.)
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Runny egg yolks and spinach and perfectly fried plantains. Off-menu Eggs Benedict on a rainy Friday morning.
Mercedes Cafe
Washington Blvd., Venice
Btw, we came here for the huevos rancheros, which are usually excellent. Lately, E. and I have been trying out new places for breakfast. He likes huevos rancheros, and I have been seriously steering him wrong. We have eaten some truly awful breakfasts recently, so we went to one of our tried and true spots.
Mercedes always had great huevos rancheros, but this time it was like a weird tostada pressed pancake with a layer of melted orange cheese on top. It brought to mind the bastard child of a seven-layer dip and a microwave quesadilla pizza.
Any recommendations for a good traditional huevos rancheros? (And please don’t send me to East L.A.; this is morning-after food. Fifteen minutes from Culver City or Venice, thanks.)
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Gjusta’s version is quite good and rather healthful. I think it would be essentially right up your alley.
But if you want a cheaper home style version that tastes utterly spectacular, Taqueria Los Anaya does the best rendition I’ve ever had as someone super picky about huevos rancheros.
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#Honeybird
Phil Lee O Fish - Crispy Whitefish, Lemon Dill Aioli, Homemade Pickles, Tomato, Cabbage
this was a fantastic fucking sandwich. Everything went together perfectly, and yes that was the perfect amount of aioli to drip down your arms as you’re eating. The only thing missing was a slice of orange pasteurized american cheese product, because #murica
Chicken 'n Waffles - Airline Breast & Thigh, Buttermilk Waffle, Bourbon Syrup
The chicken didn’t even come close to the fish, it was meh and dry.
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Double Fisting Bang! Bang! Like a Boss
Hi @PorkyBelly,
So glad you liked that Phil Lee O Fish! It’s SO good, right? 
Yah, compared to the Fish Sandwich, their Fried Chicken isn’t close (and nothing like Howlin’ Ray’s).
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Beef tartare with Bearnaise sauce on an odd bread/biscuit.
So beefy and wonderful if you scrape off the sauce and ignore the bread thing. Very rich, pure beef flavor. (It’s a good Bearnaise, but unnecessary and too rich for this dish.)
Eating the tartare by itself is one of the best versions I’ve had in a while. Still haven’t tried the Bel Campo version.
Cannibal, Culver City
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Pine and Crane:
Pine and Crane do vegetables really well.
If you come here and don’t get a plate of greens and their cold pickled appetizers you are doing it wrong!!!
Pine and Crane did me wrong for charging me rice. I did not order dumplings or noodles. Just what am I supposed to eat these veggies with? Turns out rice only comes when you order a dish like 3 Cup
Chicken.
Ridiculous. But maybe I am projecting my own standards and with what I grew up with eating at Chinese (All over SGV, Chinatown, Cerritos/Artesia) restaurants. If this was at a house, “uhhhh where’s the rice?”. Whatever.
And they took away the Hakka Stir Fry!!! How could you! That is Taiwanese as it gets. Even if you are not Hakka, you still make it/eat it. Disappointment. I don’t think the dude who took my order understands or gets my disappointment. I can’t help to be overly critical. Bring that back
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Kazunori.
I still enjoy the combination of warm, cold, sweet, vinegar, soft, and toasted.
Customers here committing all types of fockery.
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Leo’s housemade tagliatelle and Roma-style beef ragu, from Bulgarini (in Altadena)… Deceivingly simple at first, yet flawlessly prepared and complex.
(of course I had some of that pistaccio gelato as well!)
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Simple Japanese breakfast with some friends at Fukagawa on Redondo Beach Blvd. in Gardena. Was so excited to eat it that I forgot to take a photo of my breakfast set “C” with grilled mackerel and dashimaki tomago. For about $10, you get a bowl of steamed rice, a large piece of your choice of protein (steak, mackerel, Spanish mackerel or salmon) with grated daikon, your choice of egg (raw, scrambled, sunny-side up or dashimaki), Japanese pickles, nori strips, cold tofu topped with green onions and bonito flakes, and piping hot miso soup with sliced fried tofu and onions. They also serve an excellent barley tea. It’s all super simple food, but prepared extraordinarily well. Service is a tad spotty…meaning they don’t check on you much or at all so you have to constantly flag down a server for tea refills. This place looks like it’s a blast from the past…old wood furnishings and an ancient Japanese woodworking display on one side and a wall of books to enjoy with your meal on the other side.
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Hi @J_L,
Nice! Love Bulgarini’s housemade pastas and sauces (thanks for the recommendation again!). 
Great to hear they have their famous pistachio gelato in stock this early in the year.
Glad to see you got some 8 Treasure Rice for dessert, Happy New Year!!
Those Rice Cakes is essential Shanghainese, one of my favorites.
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I like Kazunori too.
What the fockery does this mean?
I don’t understand why they won’t open up Studio City - it would basically print money for them.
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Maybe they feel that Studio City hit market saturation with just Sugarfish, unlike the Westside/Downtown?