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Where to buy Farro?
I buy it at Guido Marcello in Santa Monica.
http://www.guidimarcello.com/
Nicks coffee shop on pico
I love this place so much I want to marry it.
Blueberry walnut pancakes!!!!
Nick and his family are really nice folks too.
Passover Dessert
Heck, something at Porto's has got to fit the bill. And it would not be expensive. And it would be good. (Technically Burbank but on the cusp of North Hollywood.)
Please Help This New Valley Boy
I'm really glad to hear about Amazing Thai. I can walk there from my house (so I figured, how could it be good?) Gonna give it a try soon.
Pepe's NY Pizza or other thin-crust in Studio City area
I like it a lot. Very good facsimile of NY pizza.
RIP: Thee's Bakery
I had an addiction to Thee's' apple dumplings for a while. Their stuff was excellent. I didn't find them to have the most friendly service though.
I'm sure the new bakery is great. I just hope the Farmers Market doesn't go all trendy on us.
Chipwich - is this available in LA???
If he's talking flying saucers, I imagine he's referring to Carvel. They're a totally different thing.
Nice of you to want to introduce him to the Chipwich.
Chipwich - is this available in LA???
Nothing like those original Chipwiches. That first summer, I was working in Manhattan and I used to get a Chipwich for lunch. Not after lunch, FOR lunch. They were big. Interesting to read the history, and it's a shame they're not available anymore, but even if they were, I doubt they'd still be as good as we remember.
Looking for great pizza place in Sherman Oaks/Studio City Area
Pepe's NY Pizza is my new go-to place. Really good for this area. I'm from Queens and grew up on NY Pizza and this comes close. There's one in Studio City with impossible parking, and a new one on Ventura and Lankershim with a lot. Closer to me too, so I'm happy.
Good Dipped Soft Serve in LA?
King Kone is perfect. The chocolate dip tastes like a Dove bar.
I grew up on Carvel and Mister Softee and love (and in the case of Mister Softee, miss) them both. And I'm even fond of DQ, though that chocolate coating is more wax than chocolate.
Indian in SFV
I think the food at Salomi is excellent. It's always empty when I go there though, which is kind of weird. But the food keeps me going back. I've heard the George Harrison stories too.
Fried Chicken Spot in North Hollywood?
I gotta say the hot dog with the mac and cheese plopped on it was a little bit of heaven.
Before Music Center with 11 year old
I think a kid would really like Bottega Louie. I think you would too.
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Bottega Louie
700 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90017
Doughboy's seating?
It has a very nice seating area. I've never had trouble getting seated.
Brooklyn Water Bagel Co. Opens in Beverly Hills
I wish someone would open a bialy company.
Langer's vs. Oinkster (vs. Katz's)
I'm a native New Yorker and in the Katz's/Langer's pastrami debate I vote Langer's.
However, Katz's wins points for having Russ & Daughters and Yonah Schimmel down the block.
Green Apple chinese-Studio City (NY Style Egg Rolls)
I actually used to get their won ton soup a lot to go (it was pretty good and CHEAP) - I don't remember if I've gotten the lo mein there or not, if I did it was many years ago.
I recall that meals I've eaten there were fine, but their food didn't strike me one way or another enough to make me go out of my way to eat there.
Green Apple chinese-Studio City (NY Style Egg Rolls)
Well for one thing I get the combo lo mein - so there's chicken, beef, shrimp and pork (no pork in this place's version for some reason though) along with a few vegetables.
The noodles have a little bite and a lot of flavor - I've had some extremely bland, limp, too-fat-or-thin noodles here. And then it's just the SLIGHTEST bit greasy - in a good way. I can't help but dress it up with hot mustard (theirs is good) and duck sauce which I usually buy in NY and bring back. But it's pretty decent without it - better by far than any other lo mein I've had here.
I'm not going to say it's San Gabriel Valley or Flushing rate purist food. I will say that, based on what I've tried there, it's the closest I've found to the Queens takeout I grew up on. So far only the won ton soup let me down - if I get ambitious someday I'll make Mr. Taster's version.
Review: Langer's Delicatessan - Los Angeles
There is no line out the door at Langer's because the line is a block away at the parking lot.
Green Apple chinese-Studio City (NY Style Egg Rolls)
Real decision made. I tried the combo lo mein (combo wasn't on the menu but they readily made it). It's the lo mein I been looking for for 20 years. After all of the hideous approximations I've encountered, what a find. This may not be the NY Chinese food you are looking for, but I, raised on Chinese takeout in Queens, have found mine.
Green Apple chinese-Studio City (NY Style Egg Rolls)
Here's a link (hopefully) to the recipe I posted on the Home Cooking board back in 2006.
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/348271?tag=boards;topic-348271
Have fun!
Green Apple chinese-Studio City (NY Style Egg Rolls)
I have to disagree. I got the eggrolls the other day. Aside from being a little dark, they are by far the closest to NY eggrolls I have found in 22 years of searching. I still make it a point to get an eggroll every time I'm in NY, but these are the best local approximation. (If I make my own from David Rosengarten's recipe they're better, but how often do I need to make a dozen eggrolls?) I got them to go and they provided some kick-ass hot mustard, but some runny sauce that I discarded in favor of my giant jar of Dai-Day duck sauce.
I got the orange chicken at Green Apple and thought it was excellent. A little disappointed in the won ton soup, with a ton of ingredients betrayed by a very bland broth. I have to check out the lo mein before I make a real decision on the place. But so far it's my best local alternative. (I haven't been to Chi Dynasty.)
9th Avenue near Theatre District?
Looking for help from you NY Hounds!
I'm coming to NY next week and I'm looking for a good place to eat on 9th Avenue near the theatre district.
The kick is I will be with my stepmother who is not the most adventurous of diners, though she likes good food. So I'm afraid any Afghan-Burmese-Nepalese-etc suggestions, while intriguing to yours truly, probably won't work.
Whaddya think's good on 9th Avenue or thereabouts?
Thanks in advance.
Looking for great pizza place in Sherman Oaks/Studio City Area
I got love for Angelino's. Not spectacular, but pretty decent attempt at NY pizza.
Broccoli rabe-- where?
Farm Boy in Sherman Oaks (by the Trader Joe's)
or
Marina Farms on Centinela just north of Jefferson
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Marina Farms
5454 S Centinela Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90066
Centinela Cafe
4800 S Centinela Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90066
GREAT recipe for black-and-white cookies?
Yes. This ran in Gourmet a few years ago and I've since made them a bunch of times. They're always a hit.
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Mini-Black-and-White-Cookies-233293
Best Bread in Los angles: discuss
I have fallen hard for a bread that I get at Jons Market. I can't recall (or pronounce, probably) the name of it but it's an Armenian bread - big, flat, puffy with horizontal lines cut across the top. Pop it in the oven for a few minutes, get some butter and you've died and gone to heaven. All for a whopping $1.39.
Best Bread in Los angles: discuss
Langer's gets their rye from Bea's Bakery in Tarzana.
Moving to the Valley, what's good?- Sherman Oaks/Van Nuys
Shoot down Sepulveda just past Ventura and there's Blue Dog Beer Tavern on that little side street behind the Whole Foods market. Great burgers and fries, and an interesting selection of beers.
Good Pho in the SFV?
Yes and I lived a stone's throw from one of those intersections and knew of neither place at the time. And now I have to make the hike from Studio City.
Wish they'd make a nice noodle soup further south...
