>When my friends were in town I came to visit and hang and ended up having breakfast at the hotel. The Californian at the Sheraton Universal Hotel is small but suffices in that most people who stay here are on vacation either to visit Universal Studios or something like that and wouldn’t ordinarily be eating […]
Archives for October 2010
>Renzo”s A Taste Of Peru — lunch with a lot of heart
> This story is running simultaneously in the Orange County Register I waited a while to try out Renzo’s A Taste Of Peru even though I’d heard from various friends that a new Peruvian place had opened up in Irvine months ago. I usually don’t like to be the first in line when restaurants open […]
>Cafe La Boheme — goth at its finest
> wings What can I say…. Cafe La Boheme makes me think that if I was invited to dinner by Count Dracula, this would be his dining room. It is dark, it is mysterious and it is romantic in a kinda erotic sorta way? This is definitely somewhere you wanna bring your girlfriend for a […]
>Ortolan — humiliates and royally slaps us in the face — CLOSED
>Several of us south OC-ers decided to visit Ortolan for DineLA week. I was very excited about this restaurant since LA isn’t exactly a city brimming with Michelin-starred restaurants and having visited 2-star Michelin restaurant Melisse earlier this year, I was anticipating my visit to 1-star Michelin Ortolan (awarded in 2009) to be a similarly […]
>Harry’s Bar & American Grill — nice atmosphere, average food
> French onion soup Whenever I’m in San Diego, I rely on my local friends to take me on certain dining adventures. On my recent weekend down south, I visited Harry’s Bar & American Grill with my friend for dinner. The restaurant offers complimentary valet parking but don’t expect the valet to be always there […]
