I’d pass on the sandwiches at Antico… for the price… like 18? Pretty bad qpr m. I got the mortadella one and while it was decent not going back for it… the ice cream on the other hand is the best.
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I just got back from both the original Farmers Market (3rd & Fairfax) and the weekly Larchmont farmers market. Both places had lots of stuff. Mr. Marcel’s shelves are stocked fairly well for a good selection of gourmet groceries (pricey, but they have lots of variety) and the butchers, fish monger and veggie stands all had a decent selection of items. Larchmont farmers market was just as busy as it was last week. Unfortunately no toilet paper to be had for miles anywhere.
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Epicurus is still open during their normal hours, Tuesday through Saturday. Well stocked except the samples table is empty.
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Today’s City Adventure haul (it’s been so nice running into fellow FTCers our supporting our favorite establishments!)-
Republiqué: mango passionfruit cream pie (call ahead and reserve…but they seemed to have a more plentiful amount this morning), salted caramel chocolate cake (my brother said it was one of the best chocolate cakes he’s ever eaten…but he’s not a fan of the salted caramel because he doesn’t like salted caramel), assorted pastries (for my parents and siblings)…no tea cakes today and they ran out of brownies, but I picked up a bottle of wine from their stock
Chaumont: croissants (@Chowseeker1999 I finally experienced one fresh and piping hot from the oven and it was 
AMAZING!), almond croissants, and flourless chocolate cakes
Most of my adventures have really been for me to get out of the house and to get treats for my parents. They’ve been sequestering themselves and even if they do go out…it’s for essentials only. So I’m more than happy to procure items they don’t usually get for themselves.
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Hi @attran99,
Woo hoo! So glad you finally got one of Chaumont’s Croissants straight outta the oven. So good, right? 
Glad you got the Manga Passion Fruit Cream Pie and Salted Caramel Chocolate Cake as well. 
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Burritos La Palma - El Monte (pick up window)
Called it in, ready in 15 minutes. Pay through window. Easy peazy.
Appetizer Burrito de Birria
Platillo Especiale
Dat perfect bite 
tortilla, birria, chorizo and house sauce scooped up with some of their excellent frijoles.
Tortillas for later
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This looks like a fantastic deal, knowing the caliber of Chef Laurent’s cooking:
Prepared Meals.
email us at LQ@Bistrolq.com for information.
LQ Foodings@comfort Food Takeout and Delivery
Starting Friday and Saturday (March 27+28) and every weekend thereafter during this crisis. This venture will help us to stay afloat while helping folks who are unable to get a real homemade dish at a reasonable cost. Our goal is to use superb ingredients as well as keeping it very healthy with good nutrient content.
Below is the menu for each week. Each dish is 12.00 per person and comes with either soup or dessert. We will have pick up Saturdays between 12 pm - 4 pm. at our Pasadena kitchen located at Allen and Washington. Cat and I will be prepping the food with the most sanitary guidelines that we have been doing all along, and implementing extra measures to comply with recent guidelines. We will be able to do curbside delivery at the Pasadena location (we will give a number for you to text us) If in need, we can arrange home deliveries as well. Please order a minimum of 48 hours in advance for delivery that will take place Fridays and Saturdays. Keep in mind this is pre-order only and you can order as many quantities you want since the food will last at least 3 to 4 days in the fridge and can be reheated accordingly. This is all new to us and we welcome suggestions. This program will need a fair amount of volume to sustain itself in order for us to keep it going, so please feel free to share with everyone you know that could benefit from it.
If you are interested, please let us know how many orders you would like for pickup or delivery, which protein and/or the vegetarian version. Until our online store is fully operating, once we receive your order we will send you our credit card form to fill out for payment . Feel free to ask for special requests and we will listen as much as we can if we can!
The Menu for the week of March 28th
Your choice of: 16oz of Lentil Soup or Bread Pudding with Chocolate
Your choice of protein (see below): all served with Brown Rice and ALF farm vegetable
*Braised short ribs | Olives | Basil
*North Atlantic Cod | Capers | Lemon emulsion
*1/2 roast Chicken | Herbs | Jus
We will have access to specialty cheeses and other products that will be available through our online store, going live in a few weeks, feel free to ask until then. Keep in mind we will have a wine selection from Chiara at Mission Wines
If you have any interest, please email us back at lq@bistrolq.com
Thank you very much everyone, and feel free to share with others that you think may benefit.
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Thank you @beam. I just placed an order for B.H. Cheese Store through Mercato for delivery tomorrow. I have been trying to get both Amazon Prime/Whole Foods and Instacart delivery spots in both L.A. for myself and in NYC for an elderly relative and neither have had any open delivery spots recently. You can’t even schedule a future delivery - you just get a message that there are no slots. I understand they are not scheduling future deliveries because they have no idea if they will have someone in the coming days to deliver the products and/or if the products you ordered will still be available. So they just don’t give you a delivery spot unless they have same-day availability.
So when I saw the Beverly Hills Cheese store delivery spot for tomorrow, I grabbed it although that doesn’t help my elderly relative in New York. I have to say though I did pause because the Beverly Hills Cheese Store prices were eye popping. $16 for six eggs. Yeah, they are organic free range from some farm somewhere, but still.
Monsieur Marcel is also on Mercato and they were showing eggs at non-insane prices, but they didn’t have the cheese I wanted so I bit the bullet and ordered from Beverly Hills Cheese.
At this point, I am basically too terrified to go out and hunt for my own food. It is hard to believe that two weeks ago today I was blithely walking around the streets of NYC (which is now showing to be the epicenter of the U.S. COVID-19 outbreak) and then on a completely sold out flight back to L.A. that evening. Here we are today. I think they believe the incubation period for COVID-19 is up to 14 days, so at this point I’m assuming I didn’t bring COVID-19 back from New York. But frankly, at this point, I am worrying about my three forays in the last 7 days to supermarkets here in L.A., the last of which was to Gelsons Wednesday afternoon. I wouldn’t say Gelsons was packed, but there were a bit too many people for my taste and I didn’t like how the both the checker (who was wearing gloves) and the bagger (who was not) touched each and every product.
At this point, I prefer to not even to venture outside.
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Try Fresh Direct for grocery delivery in NY. My parents have ordered several times the past couple of weeks with no issues. As a delivery-only business they have their own warehouses and trucks, which mitigates a lot of the issues instacart is having.
P. S. They have pretty good cheese - Fresh Direct was founded by the former CEO of Fairway which had the first legitimate cheese counter in NYC.
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Just checked. Fresh Direct doesn’t have delivery dates until next weekend at the earliest for what I need for my relative (who is a colon cancer survivor with a very limited dietary repertoire as a result), but it looks like they are at least letting you reserve an upcoming delivery date as opposed to Prime Now and Instacart where you can’t even get a date. So I’m glad to know about Fresh Direct, although at this point one of my homebound relative’s three caregivers is showing COVID-19 symptoms and if the other two come down with symptoms or are merely too afraid to come to work, there is going to be no alternative but transfer to a skilled nursing facility where no one is going to be worrying about dietary restrictions (trust me, I know from prior bad experience). This is heartbreaking, but it is heartbreaking for so many at this time.
Felix (Venice)
Orecchiette with sausage sugo. Dear God! It was so freaking good! And the sfincione was superb! Thanks @PorkyBelly and all FTCers! Totally going to schedule dinner here when this is all over.
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Please please be aware of your surroundings at all times when shopping for food, picking up food at a restaurant, entering/exiting your car/home.
People have already started getting desperate (robbing people of their food and supplies) and it’s happening in upper middle class/upper class areas as well. If you can please don’t shop for food and supplies at night, park around heavy traffic areas, walk with a purpose and always check your surroundings. Lock all windows and doors at your house.
I think thankfully most restaurants close their take out early. I am not familiar with most delivery services I personally would not recommend it, especially if you have to open the door to receive your food. Pick it up at the restaurant and leave a tip.
Unfortunately this ain’t Japan, if you know what I mean. Please please be safe.
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Personally, I’d be happy to dine out in Wuhan at the height of the outbreak. 1% death rate (maybe an over-estimate) skewed toward people with health problems. Most people don’t even know they’re sick. The media love coronavirus because (1) people tune in to apocalyptic stories; and (2) Trump originally said the concern about coronavirus was a hoax and the media hate Trump (understandably, but still, you’d think they’d make a better effort to be unbiased journalists).
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Glad you enjoyed it, how well did the sfincione travel?
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Wow, just wow. I think it is apocalyptic that a prominent 44-year-old in NYC who runs marathons is in the hospital on a ventilator. Went in on oxygen and then took a turn for the worse and now on a ventilator. Maybe you can ask for his medical records so you can comb through and find that one small underlying medical problem he had that you don’t have so you can feel all smug and say, “well hey he had underlying conditions and I don’t so nah, nah, nah.”
And yeah, who cares about those old people who are going to die. Thin the herd. And to think about it, who cares about all the young medical professionals in China who died treating coronavirus patients and all the ones in this country who are risking their lives because there is not sufficient PPE. Everyone knows doctors make too much money, so let’s thin that herd as well.
Wow, oh wow.
Wow, oh wow.
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Pine and Crane is now on Doordash. Ordered it tonight.
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It did very well. I followed the instructions today and it was super delicious…I should have gotten 2 because it was so popular in my house.
My family gives the focaccia game edge to Felix, but my heart goes to Leo at Bulgarini. I need to make it up there next week for gelato.
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People also die from heart disease, cancer, traffic accidents, etc. The first two are far greater threats than coronavirus by even the most cataclysmic estimates of the threat of coronavirus. For every anecdote about someone dying from coronavirus this year in California, there are hundreds of anecdotes about someone in California dying from the flu this year. That is a fact. Just trying to put things in perspective. Not saying coronavirus is less of a problem than the flu, but it certainly is nowhere near as much of a problem as heart disease and cancer. I do understand that coronavirus is a problem for medical practitioners due to lots of people getting it at once, and I do understand the rationale for flatten the curve. But I don’t think it’s reasonable to be living life in fear of coronavirus, any more than it’s reasonable to live life in fear of cancer.
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Yeah I am stunned by that as well.
I have no words. I really have no energy to reply after working on the frontline, so thank you.
Normally first responders and emergency room personnel are very cool, calm, and collected. We love to joke around and have fun with a little dark humor mixed in to keep our sanity…
We are determined and strong will people but many of us are scared.
Scared we won’t be able to take care of people because we don’t have enough equipment.
Scared for our patients.
Scared we don’t have the ppe to protect our self.
Scared we will bring something home and get others sick. Many of us self isolate on our own. Or we can’t give any affection because we are scared to infect others.
Scared to go out in scrubs or in uniform to only be harassed.
Scared that people will start robbing people (it’s already begun…).
To say that someone will go out and eat in Wuhan at its height, when we are BEGGING everyone to please stay home,…
Yes we chose to serve others…I get it, and I accepted it but I never thought that we would not have proper PPE. Or reusing it.
All of our sacrifice for what??? For you ungrateful civilians, go enjoy your damn meal and enjoying going out
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