Gourmet Pigs

by @btsunoda The Nickel Mine is a brand new bar located in West LA. I hesitate to call it a bar because it is so much more than that. It’...

New restaurants keep popping up on Sawtelle Blvd and they're not all Japanese. Tucked inside the Olympic Collections is Tapenade, which ...

There have been plenty of exciting new places on Sawtelle recently, including Tsujita and their amazing tsukemen, but Plan Check brings som...

This small, new restaurant on Sawtelle got a false start before finally making big waves in the LA food scene. While the sign clearly says &...

This week's foie dish is an old time favorite of mine, and a relatively inexpensive one at that. The Seared Foie Gras with Eggplant an...

A lot has been happening in the West LA dining scene since I graduated from UCLA. Returning to Sawtelle a year ago, I noticed at least three...

Someone suggested Kiriko on Sawtelle to us for great sushi. Actually, it was (one of) my hairdresser(s), who is Japanese and know a lot of p...

Ahhh, Ramen. There's hardly anything else that would hit the spot like a nice bowl of ramen would. But what if you can't make it all...

Not too long ago I was running around town trying to find a decent omu-rice. For those of you who don't know, omu-rice is a japan-ized w...

You know when you hear about something, made a mental note to try it out, then forgot about it for the longest time? Orris was one of those ...