Los Angeles Thread #8: Strong and Prouty

so how about that dexter episode thats playing out in real life by the hollywood sign? lots of crazy ass murders going on as of late..

The guy killed by the guy randomly shooting at cars in Hollywood was a good friend of my co-worker. So crazy.

oh geez :/

Changing the subject...who has eaten somewhere good and interesting recently? I need a resto rec, can be anywhere from hole in the wall to swanky. I was running down the J Gold list but actually found it a bit limiting and overly familiar.

Im going to the gorbals tomorrow which I hope is good.. I can report back.

Scottish and Jewish food, yeah - it's like they knew I was coming.

How about any of these from J Gold - Akasha, Kiriko, Mayura?

i ate half a pig's head there (and the eye)

have you been to ramen jinya

I really liked the food at Palate, and actually thought it was kind of awesome that it was on Auto Row in Glendale. Pretty old, bourgie crowd though.

Speaking of which - we have this new-ish Italian place Maximiliano in Highland Park and it seems to attract the strangest people. I do see Marc Maron there a lot, though. It is Andre Guerrero (Oinkster) and the food is good, a little too homestyle at times but tasty. But the people are WEIRD.

xp-no, tell me

very good noodle place in studio city (two other locations too, one near wilshire and la brea and another on sawtelle by olympic.)

http://www.jinya-la.com/ramen/index.html

Cool, I put it on the ARList. I don't have a good noodle place.

it's by no means fancy but i liked mr. ramen in little tokyo when i ate there a few days ago. i don't eat out here as much as i'd like to.

i did go to animal after the new year tho, NOM

I wanna try Animal. Looks like I will be going Mayura. I tell you what I think about the food later,

I really liked the food at Palate, and actually thought it was kind of awesome that it was on Auto Row in Glendale. Pretty old, bourgie crowd though.

Seconding this. I've driven by the place enough times, so I finally check it out. Good food there.

Chimu in downtown is astonishingly good, but I heard that they're in the middle of moving to a better location?

It's moving? I thought it just closed. It was good. Delicious lomo saltado

Mo Chica in Mercado La Paloma is same people/similar menu.

Also Little Bear is new Guerrero gastropub downtown:
http://www.littlebearla.com/

it's by no means fancy but i liked mr. ramen in little tokyo when i ate there a few days ago. i don't eat out here as much as i'd like to.

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the only reason to go to mr ramen is if you dont want to wait 30 mins to get into daikokuya

oh ohhhhhhhhh it's on

What about Hungry Cat? It's expensive and fishy?

daikokuya is right next to mr ramen tho! its not diss, I eat at mr ramen once in a while

no diss

awwww

the best place I've eaten in southern california so far (this is prob not true but maybe is) is at magic wok in cerritos, ate there a few weeks ago and holy shit

I heard Cerritos has a substantial auto mall.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-medvclp5PDo/TYFOt-O4tEI/AAAAAAAAE24/ANTpi7W2qRQ/s400/DSCN5842.JPG

Haha

what is it from??

Hey is it really going to rain today/tomorrow? I am thinking about washing my car

http://www.mckare.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/its-go-time.jpg

simpsons, 100% chance of rain tomorrow, I stumbled into the la contempo art show opening yesterday man it was horrible man

whole lotta beautiful rich looking young women tho

was considering going there this weekend but it is far and a schlep

and if it's looking like rain then hell naw

jinya is good (not amazing, but solid). the studio city one has verrry long waits sometimes.

my offer still stands for a wine/cheese/nibbly things fap. preferably next month, when i'll have more money.

i did go to animal after the new year tho, NOM

nom is right. oxtail poutine ftw. my only complaint when i went there was that after the small plates we ordered an entree-ish piece of steak and it took forever to come out (and wasn't much meat for the price).

Mo Chica in Mercado La Paloma is same people/similar menu.

Head chef Zarate though isn't there - he's been busy with Picca over on the west side.

I heard Cerritos has a substantial auto mall.

Some really amazing Indian restaurants just next to Cerritos on Pioneer Blvd (technically in Artesia)

^^rajdhani is a very special place

the only reason to go to mr ramen is if you dont want to wait 30 mins to get into daikokuya

As an alternate, you can always go to Sanuki No Sato in Gardena and get the udon.

Still I'm vaguely pleased that Orochon Ramen is opening up a new location in Burbank just up the street from me. I'm a little suspicious about the whole stunt "super spicy" ramen.

jar that happened with us too (the meat entree thing)

jbr*

Still I'm vaguely pleased that Orochon Ramen is opening up a new location in Burbank just up the street from me. I'm a little suspicious about the whole stunt "super spicy" ramen.

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, January 20, 2012 7:33 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's pretty good ramen if you don't want to torture yourself. Buncha friends and a couple people around me all did the challenge last time I was there and ended up incapacitated or throwing up, coming back out of the restroom, and blear-eyed-ly shouting "it hurts more coming back up than going down"

anything happening this weekend that's free or really cheap?

There's a couple of free Pacific Standard Time events going on. I'm going to this on Sunday:
http://pacificstandardtimefestival.org/events/accidents-in-abstract-painting-by-richard-jackson/

Alt Proj looking good:

http://www.cinefamily.org/films/alternative-projections-experimental-film-in-los-angeles-1945-1980/

I can report that I found Mayura to be acceptable but unremarkable Indian food. I might go if it was closer and I had a craving, but driving to Culver City for that? No way.

Also, I finally saw Pina and it was good. I reckon I'd be a good German dancer. Also it was my first "twenty-first century" 3D movie! I enjoyed that.

Next week's Alt Proj looks great, actually. I might make that one if I can. I haven't seen a fair few of those films, but the Pat O'Neill, Fred Worden and David Wilson (pre-Jurassic Technology CalArts film) pieces are all straight fire.

i'm going to the one in like an hour

and i'm going to the andrea fraser PST performance on monday

Cool!

"Venice Pier" is great. I would love to see a print of that again but I am not going to make that show.