I couldn’t decide between two openers for this post, so this is now a choose your own adventure blog.
OPTION 1:
I think it would be easy to reduce crime if you told people that heaven were like dining at Orange Shabu.
OPTION 2:
I HAVE HAD WAGYU BEEF SHABU SHABU: BEHOLD MY WORKS YE MIGHTY AND DESPAIR.
A few [...]
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Taiwan Day 1: Orange Shabu
Restaurant Review: Cafe Atlantico
UPDATE: A day after I posted this, the chef who runs the whole Zaytinya/Cafe Atlantico network gets nominated as GQ’s Chef of the Year! If that’s not a(n a)rousing endorsement, I don’t know what is.
Warning: There are no photographs in this review for three very important reasons.
The lighting was low and romantic.
No room in my [...]
Cav
I mentioned in my “randomly getting to meet Nobuo Uematsu for free” post that I tasty food beforehand. I went with my friends Chris and Steve, who were visiting from Santa Cruz to see some dessicated corpse in a museum or something. Here is a picture of them eating brunch the next day and looking [...]
bacon egg salad
Today I was whining at Karen about how there was no protein in my house besides bacon and eggs (also cheese). She said, “Bacon egg salad!” I said, “What??” Googling pointed us to this, which is not so much a recipe as a brilliant, brilliant idea. It seems vaguely like cheating to put the bacon [...]
Chimatherapy
This is everyone else’s review of Chima: “OH GOD I AM SO FAT HALP ZZZZZZ.”
Chima is a restaurant in Tysons Corner with a format along the lines of Malibu Grill. You pay a set (mostly expensive) fee, and strong-armed men bring you pieces of meat, as much as you can eat. There is no pressure [...]
What I Did On Spring Break
I went to restaurants and cooked in exotic locales. Let me tell you some things.
1. FUCK YOU, GUATEMALA. For the love of God, don’t go to Guatemala anticipating a beautiful meal that tastes delicious. The local meats are no good, and cow doesn’t have ‘cuts’ so much as ‘parts that probably came off of a [...]
Cafeteria
My new favorite New York restaurant, mostly because of their excellent dishes that involve cheese.
Aww…*Crêpe*!
Crêpes!
Dear Coastal Flats
I love you. I love your delicious seafood which is not the best, but flavorful and warm, like food that you yourself could make, but don’t want to right just now. You are a little expensive, but otherwise the essence of a great comfort food restaurant. I want to express my deepest gratitude for not abandoning [...]
Recent bird-related sandwiches I have eaten
I am having trouble coming up with an intro to this post, so screw the formalities. Here are some places I ate at this week past!
Gregoire
Our apartment is conveniently close to Berkeley’s “Gourmet Ghetto,” where places like Chez Panisse (the one-star-in-Michelin birthplace of “California cuisine”) and the Cheese Board Collective (delicious communist pizza) are located. [...]