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The Little Door: Someplace Fancy

Listen guys, as awesome as it would be to land a girlfriend as hot as Tamara (aka the chick in the blue dress in the Carl’s Jr. commercial), there’s just no realistic chance that they’ll be impressed with you taking them to Carl’s for a steak dinner.  In fact, this commercial bothers me because she’s just [...]

LA 2nd Annual BBQ Festival

Coming up in May is the 2nd annual BBQ festival, held at Santa Monica beach.  I went to the inaugural event last year in September and found it to be a smashing, finger-licking good time.  If you know me well, I always enjoy outdoor festivals.  Every year you will probably find me at the Garlic Festival [...]

Philippe’s and Cole’s: Battle for Dip Supremacy

There are two restaurants in Downtown LA that claim to be the originators of the French Dip. Both were established in 1908 and have histories as rich as the cities in which they lay their bricks on. Think about it, they were both selling french dipped sandwiches since they were going for a quarter [...]

Wurstkuche: Not Your Typical Brat

(taken from Yelp)

Wurstküche.  Purveyor of Exotic Grilled Sausages.

That’s what they call themselves, and here in LA, there is no place like it.  Yep, that’s right.  That says “rattlesnake” right there.  Well, there’s rattlesnake and rabbit meat in that sausage, actually.  Topped off with onions, sauerkraut or your choice of other toppings and wrapped in toasted [...]

Sand Dune Park: Vertical Challenge

“I bet you I could run up and down this thing 7 times!”

“Ok, you’re on.”

10 minutes later…

*huff* *puff*

“How many was that?”

“You’ve done three.  and you WALKED the last two.”

Sand Dune, ONE.  Alex, big fat ZERO.

For those of you that like some outdoor exercise, check out Sand Dune Park, located off Rosecrans in Manhattan Beach.  It’s a [...]

Today, I didn’t even have to use my A.K.

I gotta say that it was a [...]