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August 27, 2014
Eastern Promises – Pope’s Tavern
Restaurant: Pope’s Tavern at the Oxford Inn
Location:504 S. Morris St, Oxford, Maryland 21654. 410-226-5220
Date: May 25, 2014
Cuisine: American
Rating: Solid modernBistro
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Oxford only has 4-5 restaurants (we ate at 3 of them in our short visit) and Pope’s Tavern is almost certainly the best.
It’s located inside the historic Oxford Inn (nearly every building in Oxford is historic).
With cool tin ceilings.
The menu.
A fried rice ball with chipotle sauce.
1997 Remoissenet Père et Fils Romanée St. Vivant....
August 25, 2014
Untimed Free!
The KindleE-Book versions of Untimed will be FREEMonday, August25 and Tuesday the 26th! Take the plunge, hey, it won’t cost you a cent.
Free on Amazon!
Tweet, share, like, follow, blog and grab a copy of my book. The trailer can be found here.
About Untimed
Charlie’s the kind of boy that no one notices. Hell, his own mother can’t remember his name. So when a mysterious clockwork man tries to kill him in modern day Philadelphia, and they tumble through a hole into 1725 London, Charlie realizes eve...
August 22, 2014
Big and Bold on the Beach
I was lucky enough to be invited again to a absolutely fabulous wine dinner hosted by Eric Cotsen at his lovely Malibu pad. A number of us Hedonists attended. Eric has these diners regularly and they feature an awesome setting, great company, wonderful food, and amazing wines provided by both him and the guests. All the wines are served blind (more or less).
You can see the ocean is right there! Like under the house.
Eric has these crazy high tech nitrogen dispensers that preserve (and aerate)...
August 20, 2014
Revenge is Best Served Cold
Title: Best Served Cold
Author:Joe Abercrombie
Genre: Epic Fantasy
Length: 640pages
Read: July21-31, 2014
Summary:fun revenge fantasy
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Best Served Cold is a stand alone fantasy set in the same world as his more ambitious First Law trilogy. None of the main characters or plot from that larger work appear in this novel, but a whole host of minor characters do, often in much expanded roles and the overall style and tone are very similar.
First a note about that. This is very adult fantasy with its shar...
August 18, 2014
Factory Kitchen – Fabulous
Restaurant: Factory Kitchen
Location:1300 Factory Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90013.(213) 996-6000
Date: August12, 2014
Cuisine: Italian
Rating:Wow! Best Italian in LA?
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My friend Liz organized this amazing dinner. Chef Angelo Auriana was the lead chef at Valentino from the mid 80s until 2003, and particularly in the 90s there really was no better Italian in LA. After a stint up in Northern California he is back with a new more casual place Downtown. Liz, as usual, really worked to fine tune the food and...
August 15, 2014
Amazing Akbar
Location:3115 W Washington Blvd, Marina del Rey, CA 90292.(310) 574-0666
Date: August11, 2014
Cuisine: Indian
Rating: Bold and balanced flavors
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It’s time for myHedonist groupto return to LA’s best Indian restaurant,Akbar(Marina Del Rey branch).Too many Indian places focus on low cost buffets of very over cooked food, but Akbar cooks everything to order — even baking their own Naan when you place the order. They are more focused on the cuisine of the...
August 14, 2014
Warlords of Draenor Cinematic
Blizard released the Warlords (WOW expansion 5!) cinematic today:
Actually pretty cool. Oddly, and as usual, even after having played since launch, I don’t totally understand the details of the “lore” and even who all the players are. Guldan, Thrall, Hellscream sure. But who is that Burning Legion dude with the Illidan wings? It’s funny how much effort you’d have to make in order to actually understand the lore. I know all the factions and just roll with it. Now the gameplay, that I understand...
August 13, 2014
Food as Art – Shiki Sushi
Restaurant: ShikiBeverly Hills
Location:410 N. Canon Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.310-888-0036
Date: August6, 2014
Cuisine: Japanese
Rating:Some of the best sushi I’ve had in a while!
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Shiki Beverly Hills recently replaced Enoteco Drago in the primo Canon Dr space right in the heart of Beverly Hills. It features extremely Japanese seasonal ingredient focused kaiseki and sushi. The space is elegant and modern, really not that different than it was as Drago.
ChefShigenori Fujimoto was at Matsuhisa...
August 11, 2014
Hedonists at King Hua
King Hua is such good dimsum that the Hedonists had to hit it up for a mega brunch extravaganza…
August 8, 2014
Guardians of the Galaxy
Title: Guardians of the Galaxy
Cast: Chris Pratt(Actor), Zoe Saldana(Actor), James Gunn(Director)
Genre: Science Fiction
Watched: August7, 2013
Summary:Basically good fun
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Months ago, when I saw the trailer for this film, I said to myself, “that will either be really cool or totally suck.” Fairly amazingly, it’s basically the former. I’m not even exactly sure why this isa good film. It certainly isn’t a great one. I mean by comic-book film standards, it’s better than 95% and perhaps at about the s...
