Besides Yamakase, this is my only other blog post about an LA restaurant. I am a native Angelino, grew up here, went to high school and college here, moved away for med school and came right back to live here for good. I have been to Providence more times than I can count, but could […]Read Post ›
Before I start, these are the things I remember about this place. The Austrian waiter who just spoke way too fucking fast like he was at an auction. Secondly, a table with 4 anorexic models with these douche-bag manager types that were asking how many calories were in each dish. Lastly, overall just being sad […]Read Post ›
The Ledoyen is one of the oldest restaurants in Paris. Alléno at Pavillon Ledoyen, in addition to being a 3 Michelin star restaurant, is also ranked #31 in the world this year on the Pellegrino top 50 restaurants in the world list. Apparently, Degas was a regular here, and supposedly Napoleon met Josephine here. Since […]Read Post ›
So we had to leave at least one night for something cultural instead of just food. We still ended up going home and changing on this night before going out to have a late night Kurdish sandwich at Urfa Durum in La Marais, which we don’t have any pics of, unfortunately. Here we are leaving […]Read Post ›
So sad that Anthony Bourdain is gone. We really came here as a tribute to him. I remember seeing his episode on this place many years ago, and he was like an apostle preaching the Gospel on the beauty of simplicity and freshness, done right, no bullshit, the no non-sense French seafood tower. Here is […]Read Post ›
Interesting story behind this place. When we initially trying coming here, five years ago, they were still newly opened and ranked #13 in the world on the San Pellegrino list, but now it’s #74 on the list. We ended up taking the metro from the CDG airport in Paris to the neighborhood of Saint Denis […]Read Post ›
Before I get started with this place, let me just say that it was the best wine experience we had on our entire trip. There is a very important distinction between the Michelin Star system and the Wine Spectator Award system. With Wine Spectator, there are three levels, Award of Excellence, which is like a […]Read Post ›
So, for the actual ‘day of’ my 40th birthday, I could not imagine going anywhere other than the restaurant that set the standard for me at the peak of my Gastronautic traveling apex, five years ago from today. It was my first hard core-full blown, no holds barred Michelin tour de force through France and […]Read Post ›
The thought that comes to mind when I think of this place is like a dinner at The Versailles in Paris. Like we were in a scene from the 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons. Just sheer over the top Russian oligarch’s living room dining. Though the food was more classic and less creative, the ingredients did […]Read Post ›
So this place was our base camp for the Reims trip, even though we went other places on other nights, I figured we’d stay here so as to get an inside track with recommendations on where to go, hookups on champagne tours, etc, but that was all useless. Though this strategy works better in Japan, […]Read Post ›
