gutfud - the food, es ist gut

Being a member of KCRW has its benefits. Sure, there are aggressive pledge drives twice a year on the radio station, I don’t mind that. I do mind all the postal mail I receive year over year - each time saying the donations are needed more urgently now than ever, rote - as it’s […]

We whiled away some free time in Silverlake. An attempt to visit the spice shop was fail, turns out it’s closed on Tuesdays.
Finding a place with wifi was also a blocker. Most of the places that advertised it, either their wifi was broken or we simply could not get it to work. Oh well. We […]

Oh dear, don’t even get me started on how much fail the LA Street Food Fair was to us.  It was too packed to even drive by it, much less get in. While en route, a friend texted me to say they’d shut the gates because there were too many people there. So much for […]

I cannot remember the name of this shop, I only recall that it’s along a strip mall of businesses along Sherman Way in North Hollywood.
Matchoo and I pulled in to avoid the evening drive with the sun directly in our eyes.
Life was short, we had dessert first.

Gather up your foreign devil friends and family and come on down for yum cha and dim sum in Rosemead!
Gah, they had something like 50 different items available for dim sum on a Saturday, we were overwhelmed in that good sort of way.
Four people, sharing 15-18 dishes of mostly seafood dumplings, and it came […]

This was our last stop of the great LA food and fun trip. We weren’t going to make a dinner stop at all, and just drive back to Santa Barbara, but we could not turn down the invitation of a simple Japanese curry, and the Sawtelle area seemed to have a lot to offer.
However, we […]

This shop was the place we’d been saving our stomach space for. Ted had eaten here before, after a visit to the Museum of Jurassic Technology. It’s just across the street, and looks like a hole-in-the-wall. Inside is an Indian market and a food counter. Lunches are served up cafeteria style on paper plates, with […]

Modesty hidden on the upper floor of the Museum of Jurassic Technology was this pleasant surprise - a small Russian tea room. We had no idea this was here, and a number of friends who’ve visited the MOJT in earlier years said there was no third floor at all. So this must be new.
We thought […]

Somewhere in my lifetime, Culver City went from wonderbread central to awesome art house mecca. We spent the morning and most of the area in the area, visiting museums.
First, breakfast and a wander of the gallery at Royal/T, home of a maid cafe that’s unique in this area but rather popular in Japan and cosplay.
We […]

Not too far away from MOCA, where we’d spent part of the afternoon, is Cole’s. Primarily a sandwich restaurant, known for its French Dip, the backroom is a speakeasy with the look and feel of an elusive lounge that many seek but few find.
We found it, but could not find a drink for some […]