Oh, bacon bar, how I love thee.
Whole Foods in Porter Ranch. I will not keep it a secret, unlike some of you trying to hide these places from me lol (you know who you are :..: @js76wisco )
Nothing better than getting my gizzards all nice and lubed.
Not just a little pan, they devote a large pan to this Porky goodness
Best QPR anywhere. all this bacon for a little over $10 including tax.
No, it’s not as great a bargain as it used to be, but it still can’t be beat.
Way to dominate that 
bacon bar!
Sadly I’m a shell of my former bacon eating self. There was a day I would be able to clean out that entire bacon bar.
When I moved to the US from Asia, and got introduced to bacon the first time (in the Midwest) back then, bacon was the best food discovery moment of my life! There was a time I eat bacon with everything everyday. I’m still low-key eating it but not as much anymore, like the whole Costco pack at once much when I was younger, hahaha
God bless you. 
What!?!? Change your name to Medi0crepimpin!
Lol I feel you gotta watch out for your health I’ve slowed down with my eating too.
Nice job @Gr8pimpin. Looks like WF raised the price of their hot bar to $11.99 at all locations. Brea WF still has not brought back the bacon bar. Shame.
Yeah, it’s gone up a ton over the last 3 years when it was 9.99 and 6.99 on I think Wednesday. But bacon is still a bargain.
I probably took the equivalent of 2.5 pounds of uncooked bacon for $10 w tax.
The only other location that I know had a bacon bar was in Tarzana. That WF closed like 6 months ago.
This one in Porter Ranch has limited breakfast items but damn good bacon bar.
Shame. Everyone should have bacon bar without having to go to a breakfast buffet lol
Lunch at Les Fidélis in DTLA
Menu
https://www.orderslesfideles.com/
View from the table
The address is 548 S. Spring St. Ste 11. It’s a tiny slip of a restaurant, with a barely visible door, and is one or two doors down from the sidewalk display sign that looks like a box of water.
Inside it seats maybe 12 - 16 people max, and is run by a mother and son. The people in there were young and cool - sitting and not in a hurry. My lunch with an old friend was terrific. I got the signature chicken and rice bowl. The rice was brown rice or barley. The chicken portion was fully spiced, and was perhaps a jerk chicken.
I’ll be back and hope they have continued good fortune. I was there on or around their one year anniversary. It’s not a drive-across-the-city place, or a pick-something-up in a hurry place. It was a place for a great meal and the feeling of meeting the people who run the business.
Falling in a Mushroom Heaven at Shunji San’s counter
Matsutake owan with eggplant filled the room with the most wonderful fragrance for this season
Matsutake with shungiku (chrysanthemum green), ginkgo nut and green bean in the welcome otsumami that Shunji San decided to bring it back from the old location.
King trumpet mushroom inside Hokkaido kegani chawanmushi, so comforting!
Enoki gavy, Renkon (lotus root) mochi with ebi, topped with bafun uni from Canada: a warm & lovely food hug!
My lovely couple 
Welcome otsumami for Fall
Matsutake Owan, my favorite 
Warm awabi (abalone) in the most comforting broth!
Shunji San presenting neta
Hokkaido Sanma / 秋刀魚 / Pacific Saury / Pike Mackerel Nigiri at the start of the season, in a perfect (smaller) size before they grow bigger travelling down south, so tasty!
Shirako with shari and shichimi (Japanese pepper). A perfect shirako risotto! Shirako’s season has started 
Come celebrate their newly done cabinets, door and beautiful woodwork 
All you can eat hand rolls, maybe 
Uni tasting for all the uni loving friends 
(left to right) Canada Bafun, Hokkaido Bafun and Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara Uni tonight was so much brighter, refreshingly sweet, light and clean on the palate. I’m not a huge creamy uni person, I enjoyed this more 
Too many of highlights 
Lots of fun as always. All the mushrooms tho!!!
Tips: check their Tock page sometimes for random cancelations Shunji. - Santa Monica, CA | Tock
*The earliest Sanma I was lucky to have this season was from Yasu San at Inaba earlier on. It was so good with his special shari, of course, very different from Shunji San. Super exciting to learn and taste the beauty from different masters Appreciated!
Wow, you have your own bacon bar!!! 
Kippered DTLA
Mackerel in Muscadet, salami cotto from Olympia provisions (?) and ash-ripened goats milk cheese from Capricole Farms. Skin contact trebbiano
Damn!!!
Which do you like best?
my pizza power rankings
bleecker street
joe’s
john’s
John’s has a great crust from the coal oven, but the toppings were like Sysco. Still true?
Did you hit Scarr’s yet?
yes
was on the list but didn’t make it
