Last week, I took a break from hunting for the perfect cloche hat on Melrose to have brunch. The Melrose strip of shops in Los Angeles is seedy, creative, hipster, and features sidewalks pitted with holes and chips, even in front of boutique shops like Fluevog. It’s also lined with great new restaurants that are, […]
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Food Adventures in Orange County’s Little Saigon
Did you guess this mystery dish? I spent a few days in the Los Angeles area last week, and my best food adventure was lunch in the Little Saigon district, in the city of Westminster. My parents, our friend Laura, and I crossed the bridge over the koi pond to enter Quan Hy Restaurant, which […]
Winter Restaurant Weeks: Where to Eat (for less) this Month
My hometown – Vancouver – has an awesome winter Dine Out Festival that I blogged about earlier this week. But cities all across North America are hosting restaurant weeks, dining festivals, even an entire Restaurant Month (in California) during these dark winter nights. Most follow a similar format – good-value, fixed-price menus that introduce you […]