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Staying at the Westin Bonaventure in downtown LA - where to eat?
If you happen to like beer, the brewpub on the roof of the Bonaventure is really great.
The subway IS walking distance from the Bonaventure and can get you to Thai Town (Vermont or Western Stations). There are lots of great Thai restaurants within walking distance. I personally like the Bamboo House on Hollywood Blvd at N. Edgemont...
http://www.bamboohouse.la/
If you go there tell the proprietor, Tina, that your friend Chris Bushman sent you. She will make sure that your meatless meal is incredible.
Ideas? Visiting Tokyo next week!
Get up about 4AM and head down to the Tokyo fish market. Browse around for about and hour and be absolutely amazed.
At around 5AM all the vendors start ringing their bells indicating that it's time for auction. There is an incredible frenzy for about half an hour until everything is sold. For the next half hour eveybody carts off their buys.
So about 6AM you want to join some of the locals and have some hot noodles in one of the local shops around the market. At that time of the morning, after being up for a couple of hours, anything hot and nutritious will taste like the finest gourmet meal you've ever enjoyed.
Beer brittle?
A friend sent me a pound of this stuff (the non-fiery version).
My wife and I both think that it's the best brittle we've ever tasted.
One think puzzled me, however. Since beer is brewed from a sugary liquid derived from malted barley (called wort), why did they use plain old cane sugar to make this stuff? Sure, they added some finished beer, which is delightful, but why not really go for the gold and really beer it up and use at least a percentage of wort.
I guess everybody could try it at home by going to their local homebrew beer store and getting some "malt extract" which is pretty much the same as "wort" (pronounced WERT). There are dozens of varieties and therefore as many choices for making beer brittle.
Not wanting to wait until I can develop a recipe, I went and bought some directly from the source...
http://www.anettes.com/
I found that you can no longer get it online from Williams Sonoma, but you can apparently still get it from the catalog.
