Andy Gavin's Blog, page 71
May 6, 2019
Black Goat at Mirak
Restaurant: Mirak
Location: 1134 S Western Ave A2, Los Angeles, CA 90006. (323) 732-7577
Date: April 11, 2019
Cuisine: Korean Goat
Rating: Solid, but small menu focused on goat
_Mirak’s is a Korea Town place specializing in Black Goat. Gotta try the exotics, right? Plus, goat is the most popular meat in the world!
It’s that barely-labeled place with the yellow sign in the back corner of this Western Ave minimall.
The interior is well… typical.
This sauce was interesting. Mustard, mustard...
May 3, 2019
Không Tên – Nomnom
Restaurant: Không Tên LA
Location: 11520 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064. (424) 832-7000
Date: April 9 and 20, 2019
Cuisine: Vietnamese Fusion
Rating: Really tasty, great place
_Recently, at my Nightshade dinner I met a friend of Erick’s (now my friend too), Kim Vu, who is the chef/owner at pretty new Không Tên Vietnamese Fusion over on Pico — so of course I had to try it.
Coincidently too, my old kitchen lead from RnR, who I’m also still friendly with, sometimes moonlights here.
The lo...
May 1, 2019
Phoenicia – Hookah Time
Restaurant: Phoenicia
Location: 343 N Central Ave, Glendale, CA 91203. (818) 956-7800
Date: April 7, 2019
Cuisine: Lebanese
Rating: Good Mezzes, ok mains
_Chevy has been threatening to bundle us off to brow-down (Glendale) to dine patio-side at one of his favorite Lebanese Hokkah joints.
I forgot to take good scene pictures, but you can get an idea. There are several large patios. Food is pretty classic Armenian Lebanese.
Olives and pickled radish.
April 29, 2019
Eating Hawaii – Macaroni Grill
Restaurant: Macaroni Grill
Location: 201 Waikoloa Beach Dr #1010, Waikoloa Village, HI 96738. (808) 443-5515
Date: April 6, 2019
Cuisine: Italian American
Rating: Corporate
_This write up is from our five day early April 2019 visit to the Big Island of Hawaii.
On our way back home we wanted a quick place, not in the hotel, and Italian, so this was about all we could find.
It’s in a mall near the Hilton, right next to where I rented my road bike a couple days before.
Very corporate style i...
April 26, 2019
Eating Hawaii – Orchid Court
Restaurant: The Orchid Court
Location: 1 N Kaniku Dr, Waimea, HI 96743. (808) 887-7368
Date: April 4, 2019
Cuisine: Vaguely Japanese
Rating: Uninspired
_This write up is from our five day early April 2019 visit to the Big Island of Hawaii.
Night 3 brings us to another restaurant at our hotel, Orchid Court. It’s typical for resort hotels to have a bunch of restaurants at different levels and this is the “second tier”.
The menu. This one is vaguely Japanese and is very small. Mostly a bunch...
April 24, 2019
Eating Hawaii – KPC
Restaurant: Kamuela Provision Company
Location: 69-425 Waikoloa Beach Dr, Waikoloa Village, HI 96738. (808) 886-1234
Date: April 3, 2019
Cuisine: Hawaiian American
Rating: Solid, great view
_Our third night in Hawaii we headed over to the Hilton to check out KPC (Kamuela Provision Company).
This place is huge!
So huge, they even have a train on the grounds!
Following it along.
We get to the crazy pool complex and the floating oceanside restaurant of…
KPC (aka Kamuela Provision Company)....
April 22, 2019
Eating Hawaii – Brown’s Beach House
Restaurant: Brown’s Beach House Restaurant
Location: 1 N Kaniku Dr, Waimea, HI 96743. (808) 887-7368
Date: April 2 & 5, 2019
Cuisine: International American
Rating: Good hotel food
_This write up is from our five day early April 2019 visit to the Big Island of Hawaii.
Brown’s Beach House is the “top” restaurant at the Fairmont Orchid. “Top” in the sense that they have a bunch of more casual places and the 1-2 more serious ones.
It’s located down by the beach, with outside dining and a grea...
April 17, 2019
Spago – 2011 Montrachet
Restaurant: Spago [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
Location: 176 N Canon Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210. (310) 385-0880
Date: March 27, 2019
Cuisine: New American
Rating: Still great
_This dinner is the third part of the annual White Burgundy Premox test series, hosted by Burg-meister Don Cornwell. This dinner covers 2011 Montrachet Grand Cru and has for the last several years been hosted at Melisse — however, with the closing of that late great establishment, with some difficult maneuvering, it moved to...
April 15, 2019
Eating Mammoth – Morrison’s
Restaurant: Morrison’s
Location: 3516 Main St, Mammoth Lakes, CA 93514. (760) 934-7427
Date: March 24, 2019
Cuisine: American
Rating: Good for Mammoth
_Somehow, in all my trips to Mammoth (probably at least 30) I never noticed Morrison’s.
But always trying to mix things up I figured to try it once I did. Looks pretty much like a typical Mammoth Lakes place.
From my cellar: 2003 Domaine du Pégau Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée Réservée. VM 94. Deep red. Strikingly complex nose offers powerful sce...
April 12, 2019
Chinese Fusion – Nightshade
Restaurant: Nightshade
Location: 923 E 3rd St #109, Los Angeles, CA 90013. (213) 626-8888
Date: March 23, 2019
Cuisine: Chinese Fusion
Rating: Really tasty, imperfect service
_Tonight was a a smaller Foodie Club dinner with core members Erick and Larry and newcomer Kim (owner of Khong Ten in Santa Monica).
Nightshade, located in the Arts District in Los Angeles, is a flagship concept and first restaurant for chef Mei Lin along with partners Francis Miranda and Cyrus Batchan of No.8. The hig...
