There are plenty more places worth mentioning throughout my trip… Thanks to Deb, especially, for making so many bookings! Sorry for being vague and brief… I’m just feeling really hungry!
Blue Marlin Japanese Bistro
2121 Sawtelle Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90025
310.445.2522
The infamous uni spaghetti – I go back for it everytime I visit LA. Will attempt to recreate it when I have time!
Mastro’s Steakhouse
246 N Canon Dr
Beverly Hills, CA 90210-5302
(310) 888-8782
Giant Tuna Tartare, Bone in Rib eye steak – so juicy and tender, with a side of King crab gnocchi in truffled cheese sauce.
Berri’s Pizza Cafe
8412 W 3rd St
Los Angeles, CA
90048
(323) 852-0642
Opens til 4am at night – giant pizzas only to be eaten folded and dripping with goodness. B Ma recommended us order a lobster pizza – SO good. (though I was too drunk to take a proper photo)
Kyotofu (This was one of my favorites!)
705 Ninth Ave., New York, NY 10019
cnr. 48th St.
212-974-6012
My quest for the perfect Shiso Martini found!!!!!!! I was so very excited when I had this. Also the sake infused cheesecake, and the best chocolate souffle cupcake in NY (so they say). Plenty of gluten free options, innovating concept, inviting atmosphere. I love this place!
Norma @ Le Parker Meridien
118 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019
cnr. Sixth Ave.
212-708-7460
So we didn’t have the $1000 omelette with lobster and caviar… but geez, the brunch here can feed a family of 4! Isa is having a french toast (the size of a brick) and I have the duck confit with potatos and topped with a fried egg.
Asia De Cuba
212.726.7755
237 Madison Avenue (Between 37th St and 38th St)
Beef dumplings two ways, Sear Salmon with Wasabi Mayonnaise, yummy desserts and Victor (yes that was truly spesh)
Quality Meats
212.371.7777
57 West 58th Street (Between 5th and 6th Ave)
Restaurant week menu: Steak Tartare (mmm…!), Seared Scallops, shrimp salad on toast, ‘tataki’ tuna salad, amazing desserts of chocolate tart, apple pie and homemade sorbet
Caf?Gray
10 Columbus Circle, 3rd fl, New York, NY 10019
212-823-6338
Sweat Corn Ravioli, Sea Bass… a somewhat dissappointing & overpriced meal, but service was excellent.
Il Bagatto
192 E. 2nd St., New York, NY 10009
nr. Ave. B
212-228-0977
Cute homely Italian… Ravioli of Duck Confit, stuffed squid, antipasto with soft centred buffalo mozzarella…
DB Bistro
55 W 44th St
(212) 391-2400
Ohhh yeah… The famous Wagyu burger stuffed with fois gras and truffle in a parmesean bun *faints*
Boqueria
212-255-4160
53 West 19 Street,
New York, NY 10011
Amazing tapas, seafood paella (pictured) and I highly rate the trio of croquettes, and Deb’s favorite grilled dates wrapped in ham.
Gyu-kaku East Village
34 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003
There’s always time for FAT beef, Japanese bbq style.
Creperie
Too drunk to recall location, as well as taste, but it looks good!
Takeshimaya
Afternoon tea set – great food – worst hangover cure.
And last, but definitely not least – the Seafood pancake in Koreatown near Madison Square Garden:
i think i know what your heaven is like. lol.
can’t believe you remembered all these places. I better jot them down!
hhmmm. but a grand for an omelette? oh my please…
looks sooo damn good!! i guess it is hard to diet when u go to the states ahahah i better lose 5ks first before i go haha
i actually thought that the $7 burger joint burger tastes better than the $30 DB burger… *sigh… at least we can say we tried it. the foi gras, black truffle monster burger.
oh, frank said that it use to be better.
oh, and please teach me to make uni spaghetti when u have the time
~ drool
ah yes, there is an asia de cuba here in LA on sunset also. oh so good.
Enterprising restauranteurs are now offering the “Kobe Beef Burger”, enticingly priced at near or above $100 a pop. And if there’s a better way to prove one’s total ignorance of all three words – Kobe, beef, and burger – this, my friends, is it. It’s the trifecta of dumbass. The Kobe experience is principally about the marbling, the even distribution of fat through lean. A hamburger is a bunch of lean beef thrown into a grinder with varying degrees of fat. If you are foolish enough to order a Kobe burger, you are entirely missing the point. Firstly, the fat will melt right out of the thing while cooking. Secondly, you are asking the chef to destroy the very textural notes for which Kobe is valued by smarter people. Thirdly, for an eight ounce Kobe burger, you are paying for the chef to feed you all the outer fat and scrap bits he trimmed off the outside of his “real” Kobe so he can afford to serve properly trimmed steaks to wiser patrons who know what the hell they’re doing. And fourthly, you’re paying a hundred bucks for a freakin’ hamburger! Get over yourself! You’ve already established you’re too drunk and stupid to enjoy it in the first place.
-Anthony Bourdain on Kobe burgers
But your palate is still top-notch in my book!
I missed them all! (boo)
You eat as well as I do! Props for that. And I wonder if we went to that Creperie place on the same night/morning.. I was truly buzzed! Anyways, good times.. lol
Your blog just makes me hungry… >_<
Boy do you know how to eat (and cook for that matter…)…all my meals pale in comparison…lol
hmm… probably saw u at quality meats…ate there like every other day… live across the st.
Wow! Your pictures make anyone hungry. That quality meat place looks real good. I’ll have to check out how it taste! ^.^
hey, why did you cut off the video right when you were about to say… you-know-what!
I also love blue marlin!