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Quick help!!! Lunch in Venice/Santa Monica area
- Thread starter VLM
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lars makie
lars makie
Well, there's Father's Office in Santa Monica @ 1018 Montana Avenue. Damn good burger and beer. Not really a wine place. In Venice there's a ton of places on Abbot Kinney. Had a nice dinner at Hal's once @ 1349 Abbot Kinney Blvd.
originally posted by lars makie:
Well, there's Father's Office in Santa Monica @ 1018 Montana Avenue. Damn good burger and beer. Not really a wine place. In Venice there's a ton of places on Abbot Kinney. Had a nice dinner at Hal's once @ 1349 Abbot Kinney Blvd.
Lilly's on Abbot Kinney. Terrible.
Had a bottle of Ostatu Bianco. Serviceable.
Fuck all y'all for the help.
Tried to go over to Pinxto for a quick glass of Txakloli, of course by the time we got there and were fighting for parking, there was no time.
Instructive quick trip out to LA. Everything was a huge fucking hassle. Pretty much cured me of the impulse to ever move there. And I like SoCal.
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
Sorry; would've chimed in but I've only been there one night hitchhiking through, and that was thirty years ago.
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
originally posted by SFJoe:
Lou on Vine was too far inland?
Damn, beat me to it by one minute.
Tom Glasgow
Thomas W Glasgow
But still three days lateoriginally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by SFJoe:
Lou on Vine was too far inland?
Damn, beat me to it by one minute.
I've never been, but it's the top of my list for my next trip to LA.originally posted by Tom Glasgow:
But still three days lateoriginally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by SFJoe:
Lou on Vine was too far inland?
Damn, beat me to it by one minute.
originally posted by SFJoe:
Lou on Vine was too far inland?
Yes, a nightmare inland. On the other side of the 405 for noodle's sake, almost to the 101. Probably an hour and a half to get there.
There's the trap. Food by the coast blows, living off the cost blows. No-win situation. I'm staying put. Rand can suck it.
lars makie
lars makie
Took a cab once from Santa Monica to the area by Lou and was close to $50 and at least 30 min with no traffic (it was late at night).originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by SFJoe:
Lou on Vine was too far inland?
Yes, a nightmare inland. On the other side of the 405 for noodle's sake, almost to the 101. Probably an hour and a half to get there.
There's the trap. Food by the coast blows, living off the cost blows. No-win situation. I'm staying put. Rand can suck it.
I get to go out to Santa Monica for work every now and then and every time I'm there, every morning I wake up and ask myself "Could I live here?". By the end of the day the answer is always no.
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
Were you being recruited?
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
originally posted by VLM:
Fuck all y'all for the help.
WTF, you couldn't have picked up the goddamn phone and called me?
Lilly's has potential but sucks unless you speak French and know the owner.
You should have gone to the Tasting Kitchen, where the wine list is totally under the spell of the natural orange eono-terroiristas and the food can be exceptional.Gjelina is loud but the food's good and they've got a good wine list with plenty of interesting options that aren't from California and I think they're open for lunch. As is Primitivo. I like 3-Square Caf a lot...small menu and small wine list but all well selected and comfortable. You could have stopped for tea and cake and an incredibly fine sugar rush at Jin Patisserie or hung out with the well-heeled locals and slurped coffee at the Intelligentsia atelier. Joe's is the perennial "good" restaurant on the block, with imaginative cuisine and a good wine list, despite Joe Miller's interest in his other restaurant ventures. Their lunches are good, but when school's in session they aren't allowed to serve wine, being as how they're just across the street from the school and seeing people having fun and carrying on with wine might harm the little tykes immeasurably, scarring them for life or something).
-Eden (you don't write, you don't call, it's like I don't even know you these days)
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch: Lilly's has potential but sucks unless you speak French and know the owner.
Is this a reference to food or service? Because one often hears this type of comment in reference to the food at Chinese restaurants in the US, but I'm having a hard time imagining off-menu specialties at a French restaurant. Or do they only cook well for people they like?
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch: Lilly's has potential but sucks unless you speak French and know the owner.
Is this a reference to food or service? Because one often hears this type of comment in reference to the food at Chinese restaurants in the US, but I'm having a hard time imagining off-menu specialties at a French restaurant. Or do they only cook well for people they like?
Or choice c: they piss and spit in the food of unknowns who order in English.
Just sayin'
Mark Lipton
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
originally posted by MLipton:
Or choice c: they piss and spit in the food of unknowns who order in English.
Just sayin'
Mark Lipton
No, this isn't as all thought-out as that, it's just that when I've been there with normal people the service is okay and they glower a lot when we bring wine in. When I'm there with French friends it's "ooh la-la" this and "avec moi" that and bottles are shared and a good time is had by all. The food hasn't been any better or worse in either situation, but it makes for a better dining experience when everyone is happy.
-Eden (Gjelina is getting the notice down there, but the Tasting Kitchen is doing the most interesting food and the wine list is fascinating)
Keith Levenberg
Keith Levenberg
Roberto Rogness sent me to Monte Alban a few blocks from his shop in Santa Monica last year and it was absolutely amazing. But we drank beer.