Eleven Madison Park was pretty mind-blowing. I made a reservation thinking we'd do the 4-course lunch menu, but after reading lots of reviews, realizing that it has 3 Michelin stars, and is #10 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list, we decided to splurge on the tasting menu. It was AMAZING. We even got pulled aside into their kitchen halfway ( Read more... )

For our new year's Seattle trip, we stayed at an awesome hotel, a Doubletree that used to be a gentleman's club in the 1920's, and it's styled in the spirit of the Yukon explorers that founded the Arctic Club. There were portraits of the old members and some of the Inuit guides/translators all taken by a photographer who was based in Pioneer Square ( Read more... )

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hoshikaji and I took a red-eye flight and landed at JFK in the wee hours of the morning on Thursday. It was cold. Estimated highs of 22-23 degrees, wind chill factor of ohshitwhy. We took a train into Manhattan, to pandastardrop's pad. Bundling up as much as we could, we set out for brunch and then, rather ridiculously, for Coney Island. Manhattan cold had nothing ( Read more... )

Back from NYC, what a fun trip! I have more photos of friends and food, which I'll try to dump on Flickr this week, but while I'm doing that, here are a few photos by Pat Ramos, taken about a week ago (right before Oscar's food party).


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I'm on the LA metro. It's like a monorail! Why don't more people ride this? Oh, maybe it's because they make you buy a separate ticket every time you switch lines? What a stupid system! At least put ticket machines on the platforms of transfer stations ( Read more... )

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Having a quiet weekend (finally!) so here's the long-delayed Ninja Restaurant photoset that I meant to upload to Flickr months ago ( Read more... )

We ate really well. Unfortunately, many of the tastiest bits of the trip went undocumented because whatever was in front of me looked so good, I devoured it before remembering to take a picture. However, the food set is still worth a look through. Ninja restaurant will get its own post later because it's THAT cool ( Read more... )