Posts Tagged ‘san gabriel’
by josie on July 19, 2010
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Did you see us the last LA Street Food Fest? If you didn’t, then I better see you this time around because the LA Street Food Fest is back! As you know, I’m an Eastside girl and so are Shawna Dawson and Sonja, co-founders of the LA Street Food Fest. Shawna and Unique LA’s, Sonja, have partnered up once more to bring you the best of what Los Angeles has to offer in terms of street food life and culture.
Josie’s still broke (don’t feel too bad for me, I’m happy as hell) and will be volunteering once again. I have A VERY SPECIAL JOB this time around so you better stop by and say hello. I’ll be Tweeting the whole …
by josie on July 14, 2010
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What do you get when you cross a gourmet food truck with craft beer? My perfect date… without the date, that is. #FML. (Can someone please find me a date?! Anyone? Anyone?) As you all know, Minty is the ‘crawl organizer extraordinaire’ and last Friday she hosted the Craft Beer Crawl in/and around Eagle Rock. Make sure to check out Minty’s review.
Here were the stops:
8 p.m. – Eagle Rock Brewery
3056 Roswell Street
Los Angeles, CA 90065
9:30 p.m. – Verdugo Bar
3408 Verdugo Rd
Los Angeles, CA 90065
11:00 p.m. – The Black Boar
1630 Colorado Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90041
I got there a bit early and started chatting up a fellow patron who had gotten stood up by a girl. He looked so sad. …
by UncouthGourmands on June 28, 2010
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When I received the invite to O2 Sushi’s tasting party I was thrilled. Since I am part Japanese, I thought it was right up my alley. I was excited to see what the new Old Town Pasadena restaurant had in store for me.
My favorites of the night were the Tuna Sushi, Seared Albacore Sashimi with sautéed spinach, Yellowtail Sashimi with Jalapeno, and Sweet Chili Shrimp. O2 only serves the highest quality sushi and it was apparent with their Tuna Sushi. It was so fresh and the Chef prepared it wonderfully. I savored every bit of the Seared Albacore Sashimi. It was seasoned perfectly and definitely the entrée I could not have enough of. The Yellowtail Sashimi had a tangy zest …
by UncouthGourmands on May 10, 2010
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By: Your High Priestess, Nadia Noir
Week beginning May 10th aka DoubleDEntendre
‘If you insist on leaving your fate to the gods, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don’t be surprised at what inappropriate port you will find yourself docked.’ – Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
I preface this horoscope with that quote for two reasons: 1) I am feeling really luxuriously scandalously lazy and almost any worldly insight I have was already written 10-20 years ago by one of my favorite authors, Tom Robbins; 2) Because with the Sun in Taurus (sensuality) and the Full Moon in Scorpio (sex, sex, sex,yay, sex) all of us …
by josie on April 15, 2010
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It’s a mix of insomnia, hypomania, and a lot of love that gets me up in the morning to build this little thing we often refer to as UG. But on this particular morning, I woke up in a bunk bed in Malibu! The problem, however, was that I was supposed to meet Carina, Roni, and her bud Caroline who was in town from Sweden for brunch at Central Park in Pasadena!
We’ve been there only once before. Funny thing about that place is that when we went last time, Carina’s then-boyfriend said this of the pic of us: “Dude, you guys look so hungover!” Don’t be quick to judge – we were and he was right. Therefore, our memory of this …
by carina on March 28, 2010
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I have just returned from the Beef Roll Crawl and I have a lot to report back. First of all, the goal was 5 places in 4 hours. We ended up hitting the 5 places with a slight variation (see Kings Cup section) in just shy of 6 hours. The day was an absolute blast and the best part of all was that each roll was totally different. Not to mention that everyone on the crawl spent less than $20 for the entire day, average price per place was under $4. Minty is an expert crawl leader and when us, UG girls, started to become close friends with her we asked her if she could do a special UG crawl …
by carina on March 21, 2010
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Photo courtesy of Ron Diggity on Flickr
The Minty is one of our favorite foodie friends, our leader, and our Food Ballin Team Captain. We are merely her fans, followers, and crawlers. We are thrilled that this month, next week to be exact, she is organizing a Beef Roll Crawl for all of our friends.
I first had a beef roll in July at 101 Noodle Express and here were some highlights from my first time:
While I was waiting for my order an older Chinese woman who was dining alone received her order of a beef roll and was in astonishment. I was so impressed by her comment I quickly sent out a tweet that said, “At 101 Noodle Express for the …
by carina on February 11, 2010
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Thank the foodie/blogger gods that football season is over. I am completely depleted of all the sports analogies I know. However, this photo reminds me of the hot pot additions on offensive ready to tackle this two-toned yin yang hot pot of spicy goodness. That’s right after clobbering and gobbling Slaw Dogs and Diana’s Egg Rolls we headed over to Mon Land Hot Pot City. My ex-boyfriend and his friends loved Little Fat Sheep in Monterey Park so that used to be my hot pot place but I have heard better things about Mon Land. The broth is supposed to be better and those medicinal roots, balls, and barks at Mon Land are bigger so can be removed from your …
by josie on January 18, 2010
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If you’re so adventurous you may want to hang with Ms. Minty on Twitter. As you may know she, as well as our fav SinoSoul, have been our cue into the SGV. So when Minty invited us out to the Dumpling House Restaurant, we gave one unanimous “Hell ya, beeotch.” On NYE we met up with Minty, AKesq, a couple other Yelpies and hit the strip mall establishment on Rosemead Blvd. Upon entering Dumpling House Restaurant one cannot help but notice the feline paraphernalia on the walls. The restaurant’s walls were lined with photographs of animals. The place more aptly resembles someone’s home rather than a dining establishment. There were tiger, cat and even a few horse photographs on the walls. I …
by josie on January 11, 2010
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We’re so grateful because our favorite new Twitter friend, The Minty, always invites us out for fabulous SGV fare and this outing was no exception. Despite already being full from the new happy hour menu at New Moon in Montrose, we decided it would be a “good” idea to keep eating and grab some ramen with Minty, her friend Jenny, and our friend Brian. We were a little derailed because my sweet Carina got into her first car accident on the way. I was on the freeway at the same time and walked her and the other car calmly through the process; they were such amateurs. I know the drill all to well, having grown up in LA and being …
