It’s my go-to place. I’m there at least once a month. Tim rules.
Santos as well. He was very nice, was trying our bottles, let me try something mindblowing as well.
Have you tried the GoLA app @robert? its made by Xerox. Basically it gives you a lot of options in getting around the Socal area. It uses Google maps, you ask for directions and you have options for car, train, bike, bus, motorcycle, lyft.
www.golaapp.com
its perfect for trip planning in LA.
I use Google Maps for that. The cost comparison isn’t useful to me, I buy a one-week Metro pass and use Lyft if it’s late and I don’t want to wait.
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Here’s an article that explains it better than I can.
Oops, didn’t read your whole reply. My bad.
Is Santos the filipino (?) owner of Papilles? I chatted with him during my last dinner there and shared some of my bordeaux with him. Opened my first bottle of the '09s to see where it was and it still can use some more aging. Getting there though…
is he the owner? i thought he was just the somm… nice. certainly looks Filipino
yeah I’m pretty sure he’s the owner
“Santos Uy
Owner/Wine Director”
yep your’e right… really cool peeps and amazing food/wine… i’d go there monthly if i could
Are you maybe thinking of Bestia?
I’ve been to Bestia, so no. I think I must have been impressed by Jonathan Gold’s capsule review of Alimento in his 101 (“lightly pickled mackerel plunked onto spicy beans, the Tyrolean beet dumplings called canederli, or fusilli pasta tossed with a dense, intensely flavored sauce made with clams, fava leaves and smoked butter”).
Updated list:
Baroo
Broken Spanish
Cassia
Chengdu Taste
Chi Spacca
Grand Central:
- Bombo fish stew
- DTLA Cheese
- Madcapra falafel with with fermented zhug
- Wexler’s
Jitlada
Jun Won
Kinjiro
Odys & Penelope
Orsa & Winston - lunch
Papilles
Petit Trois
Q Sushi - lunch
Ruen Pair - egg and salty turnip
Rustic Canyon
Saap Coffee Shop
Shunji
Terrine
Trois Mec
I have a bunch of other places starred on Google Maps in case I happen to be nearby.
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If, as you said, you like foods in their most classic incarnation I’d suggest swapping Shunji out for Mori. Or do Shunji for lunch instead of Q. And I’d do Luv2Eat over Sapp.
looks like an abridged version of the gold 101
Well, those dishes do exist at Alimento. The beet canderli border on inedible to me, and I am a beet enthusiast. But that fava pasta is remarkable. However, why would you consider any pasta in LA when you have great pasta in SF? Personally, I like eating pasta in both cities, but you don’t want to eat anything you can get back in SF right?
Love Chi Spacca, but not a place to go alone. Huge plates. Best with at least 3 people, but 2 can work.
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I probably shouldn’t, but I must at least ask, feel free to ignore me, but why Rustic Canyon? That’s almost literally a bay area transplant restaurant in terms of its menu…isn’t it?
Rustic Canyon is very Bay Area in style, but I had a great meal there last year and there are more things on the menu I’d like to try.
Yeah, I learned that the hard way last year. Went solo, got the “bistecca pane,” left half of it on the plate so I’d have room for the lamb chop and broccoli di ciccio, which I managed to eat half of. I’ll have a group this time.