Andy Gavin's Blog, page 150
October 2, 2013
Tony Terroni
Restaurant: Terroni
Location:802 S Spring St.Los Angeles, CA 90015.323-954-0300
Date: September 30, 2013
Cuisine: Italian
Rating: Great location!
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Terroni is a small chain (5 restaurants) of high end Italians out of Toronto. They have two locations now in LA and downtown is the latest, just a few weeks old. This provided the perfect excuse for the Hedonists to haul the Italian treasures out of the cellar.
It’s situated in a stunning early 20th century space with great vaulted ceilings.
And our priva...
October 1, 2013
Catch the Dragon by the Trailer
September 30, 2013
Tasty Duck Will Bring You Luck
Restaurant: Tasty Duck[
Location:1039 E Valley Blvd.Ste B102.San Gabriel,CA91776.(626) 572-3885
Date: September 28, 2013
Cuisine: Chinese
Rating: Great Duck!
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My Hedonist food and wine club loves the SGV. This community 20 minutes East of Downtown LA boasts a staggering array of good Chineserestaurantsand Tasty Duck is one of our regular spots. Even though its intensely crowded, we shoe horned 23 people in on a busy Saturday night. Of course this meant 11-12 people at tables meant for 8-10, b...
September 27, 2013
Big Bottle Madness at Kali Dining
Restaurant: Kali Dining[1, 2]
Location:13488 W Maxella Ave Marina del Rey, CA 90292 Apt #559
Date: September 25, 2013
Cuisine: New American
Rating: Foie-tasktic
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Independent chef Kevin Meehan (below)executes a concept he calls “hosted dinner party” via his company Kali Dining. You sign up for a special meal and join him at a big communal table in Marina del Rey. He also happens to belong tomyHedonist group (cooking up that same group’sstart of summer blast) and so we thought we’d hit him up at his...
September 25, 2013
Pixelvolt Interview
Periodically I was asked by Pixelvolt to answer a few interview questions.
Check them out here for the latest in Indie Game News!
I’m also posting the interview here for posterity:
Pixelvolt: Many enjoyed the Crash Bandicoot trilogy more than Super Mario 64 or DK64. How do you think the Crash Bandicoot franchise did against Nintendo’s heavy hitter platformers?
Andy:Crash Bandicoot was in development during the same period as Mario 64. We started in 1994 and first saw our rival at E3 in May of 199...
September 23, 2013
Spice Up Your Life Szechuan Style
Location:920 E Garvey Ave.Monterey Park, CA 91755. 626-288-2218
Date: September 20, 2013
Cuisine: SzechuanChinese
Rating: Awesome!
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Chinese food is incredible regional, and we are blessed in SoCal with a lot of very specific restaurants (mostly in the San Gabriel Valley). Yarom (the leader of my Hedonist group) invited me out to try some spicy Szechuan and a totally undiscovered place he found while wandering around. We loveSzechuan for its spicy/smoky flav...
September 20, 2013
Tsujita LA – Artisan Noodles
Restaurant: Tsujita LA
Location:2057 Sawtelle Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90025.Tel. 310-231-7373 Fax. 310-231-7375
Date: September 5, 2013
Cuisine: Japanese Ramen
Rating: Really, really tasty
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For a year I’ve been noticing this “artisan noodle” join on Sawtelle with the huge line, so I figured I needed to try it.
At lunch they have a simple menu with basically two dishes (both will be pictured below).
On the table are the condiments. Various pickled ginger and the like.
Char Sui Tsukemen. This is a versio...
September 18, 2013
Sometimes You Want to Get Crabs
Restaurant: Seafood Village
Location:684 W Garvey Ave.Monterey Park, CA 91754.(626) 289-0088
Date: September 15, 2013
Cuisine: Chiu Chow Chinese
Rating: quite tasty!
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Chinese food is incredible regional, and we are blessed in SoCal with a lot of very specific resteraunts (mostly in the San Gabriel Valley).This time, my Hedonist group has head out for some Chiu Chow (also Chaozhou) which is a Southern Chinese style originating in Eastern Guangdong province. This is a fairly ingredi...
September 16, 2013
Seoul Sausage Kingdom
Restaurant: Seoul Sausage Co.
Location:11313 Mississippi Ave.Los Angeles, CA 90025.(310) 477-7739
Date: September 20, 2013
Cuisine: Korean… sorta
Rating: Tasty!
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LA is a funny kind of foodie town, being divided into both wildly experimental cuisine, classic ethnic, and a not-so-in-the-closet love affair with fast food. And let’s not forget Asian fusion. One of the current trends seems to be updating classic American fast foods with crazy cross-cultural insertions. This is nowhere more obvious than...
September 13, 2013
Water Grill Santa Monica
Restaurant: Water Grill
Location: 1401 Ocean Ave. Santa Monica. 310-394-5669
Date: July 27 & August 11, 2013
Cuisine: Seafood
Rating: Nice upgrade, if a tad pricey
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Years ago, Ocean Avenue Seafood was a staple on our “quick dinner” rotation, particularly before movies and the like. It served up classic San Francisco style seafood. But recently, was feeling a little long in the tooth, having not been updated in (as far as I know) nearly two decades. This year the owners rebooted it as a Westside br...
