Andy Gavin's Blog, page 33
June 28, 2023
Kinn Again
Location: 3905 W 6th St, Los Angeles, CA 90020. (213) 291-0888
Date: November 15, 2022
Cuisine: Korean Fusion
Rating: Really tasty & a great deal
_After Erick and I had such a great “Round 1” of our double dinner at Kinn a few months back we decided to return with the whole gang for a “real” Foodie Club dinner.
It was way more crowded this time around.
We had a mega table which took up about 1/3 of the restaurant.
Our special expanded menu. The normal menu is about ha...
June 26, 2023
Sham Tseng Double Cluster
An update after returning to the 1940s hooker motel for more awesome Chinese BBQ.
Click here to find out what it’s all about.
Jeff ordered a Pig Head for the fun of it.
June 24, 2023
Sauvages Bordeaux
Restaurant: Private Chef, David Slatkin
Location: Pasadena
Date: November 11, 2022
Cuisine: American
_This particular entry in my series of Friday afternoon wine themed Sauvages lunches was set at a member’s lovely Pasadena house with a Bordeaux wine theme. Food was by frequent Sauvages chef David Slatkin.
Champagnes at the ready.
Tuna Salad on Wonton Crisps. Lots of mayo.
Pigs in a Preztel Blanket.
Korean Short Rib Mini Tacos. Sweet and salty.
Table A.
Table B. I’m not a fan of the ...
June 22, 2023
Petrified Peppone
Restaurant: Peppone Restaurant
Location: 11628 Barrington Ct, Los Angeles, CA 90049. (310) 476-7379
Date: November 11, 2022
Cuisine: 1970s Italian American
Rating: Saucy!
_Jeffrey was clamoring for months to visit Peppone in Brentwood for Old School Italian eats.
I, myself, hadn’t been in 15 or 20 years!
Not that the interior changed. It hasn’t changed since disco was king! This place opened in around 1971 and looks it. All the hot girls were there too (later) — just the girls who were hot in...
June 19, 2023
Lunch Quest – Kinnara
Restaurant: Kinnara Thai Restaurant
Location: 15355 Sherman Way, Van Nuys, CA 91406. (818) 988-7788
Date: November 18, 2022
Cuisine: Thai
Rating: Slightly modernist Thai
_The Foodie Club lunch crew and I went out for Lunch Quest to Go’s Mart, but he was oddly closed, so we ended up here:
At this “slightly trendy” Thai place.
Interior is pleasant.
Good sized menu (as usual for Thai).
TOPAZ SHRIMP. Cooked shrimp with yellow curry and crabmeat. Interesting modern one bite format. Ultimatel...
June 16, 2023
June 14, 2023
Mr. T doesn’t Pity the Fool that drinks Pierre Peters
Restaurant: Mr. T [1, 2]
Location: 953 N Sycamore Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038. (310) 953-4934
Date: November 3, 2022
Cuisine: Modern French Bistro
Rating: Really tasty — and awesome Champagne
_This was the first Sage Society wine dinner “post pandemic” and it was great to get back to this impeccable series that Liz Lee puts on where she showcases the wines of a particular wine maker, with great food, and the wine maker themselves.
Mr.T is a contemporary French cuisine inspired by upscale street...
June 12, 2023
Aussie at Locanda Veneta
Restaurant: Locanda Veneta [1, 2, 3]
Location: 8638 W 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90048. (310) 274-1893
Date: November 3, 2022
Cuisine: Italian
Rating: fun night w/ retro 90s Italian
_I’m not historically a big fan of Locanda Veneta. It’s okay, and the owner is super nice, and execution on the food quite good, but the meal is always the same (maybe that’s Yarom’s ordering) and it’s very 90’s. I like a more modern style of Italian, frankly. This feels similar to Toscana or other good but slightly da...
June 10, 2023
Henry’s Cuisine – Part 3 & 4
Another rollup post assimilating 4 different meals at the awesome Henry’s Cuisine.
Curry Beef Stew. This is one of the best yellow curries I’ve had. The sauce itself, probably coconut milk based, was extremely delicious and a straightforward version of the English/Hong Kong yellow curry. The meat is tender put packed with collagen and/or tendon.
June 8, 2023
Sauvages Crustacean
Restaurant: Crustacean Beverly Hills [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
Location: 468 N Bedford Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210. (310) 205-8990
Date: October 28, 2022
Cuisine: Vietnamese Fusion
Rating: Awesome as always
_Crustacean is one of our regular haunts and features a great patio in these “outside is better” days. Tonight’s meal was a Sauvages wine lunch, with a Red Burgundy theme.
We’ve had a couple awesome meals here in the last couple of years.
Lots of champagne to start.
We are situated in their p...
