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Beverly Hills, CA

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June 2008

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http://www.jasonz.com

The Last Great Book I Read

The Lovely Bones

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8764 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood, CA 90069
(310) 432-2000

Cecconi's  

Category: Italian
Neighborhood: West Hollywood

2 star rating
 9/5/2009  
This review is ONLY for the Scrambled Egg & Summer Black Truffle brunch I had so eagerly anticipated.

You had me at "...we will shave them (truffles) over scrambled eggs in the morning"

You lost me when I ordered and realized it's just 2 or 3 scrambled eggs with an extremely skimpy portion of shaved truffles, no sides, for $24.

And that's the BLACK truffle version.  The WHITE Truffle eggs will set you back $84.

I am however looking forward to going back for dinner as I hear it is quite impressive.

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662 Commercial St
San Francisco, CA 94111
(415) 398-2838

City View Restaurant  

Category: Dim Sum
Neighborhood: Financial District

4 star rating
 4/24/2009  
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Located in San Francisco's Chinatown, City View serves some of the best Dim Sum I've had in a long time and it's still served table side from push carts unlike many modern Dim Sum restaurants.

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2298 Union St
San Francisco, CA 94123
(415) 775-2200

Rose's Cafe  

Categories: Italian, Breakfast & Brunch
Neighborhood: Marina/Cow Hollow

4 star rating
 4/24/2009  
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Rose's is the local cafe at it's best. Quaint, friendly and warm. Great food, great coffee. A great place for breakfast or lunch with friends. My friend Elwood raved about the breakfast pizza, and though it wasn't served during lunch when I arrived, the maitre d' was quick to suggest a work around by ordering the Margherita pizza and adding a few items to make more or less the same thing. It was delicious. My party also shared the Grilled Chicken-Tarragon Sausage, Organic Poached Eggs, Polenta & Spicy Tomato Sauce dish. Another winner.

I want to try their other restaurants - Rose Pistola and Terzo - next time I'm in town

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8910 Santa Monica Blvd
West Hollywood, CA 90069
(310) 652-1118

Millions of Milkshakes  

Category: Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt
Neighborhood: West Hollywood

1 star rating
 9/16/2008  
Anyone who knows me, knows I like milkshakes, a lot.  So, when I heard about a place called "Millions of Milkshakes" you can bet I was excited.  Millions of Milkshakes, or as I like to call it, The Overpriced Soft-Serve Shop, does not serve what can honestly be called a milkshake.   Three types of frozen vanilla (soft serve, yogurt or soy) substitute for actual ice cream in these "shakes" and at $5 for a one topping regular ($6 for a large) and another $1 for each additional topping, a small 4 combo frosty is going to run you close to 10 bucks.  Ten bucks for soft serve and some candy.  What a bargain.  

If the name itself weren't deceiving, I wouldn't have as much of a problem with the place.  If, for example, it was called, "Millions of toppings for your vanilla soft serve" my expectations would have been properly managed, though I imagine that name wouldn't have suckers like me driving to West Hollywood to try it.

Do yourself a favor, go to McDonalds, get a McFlurry and save the other 8 dollars for some real ice cream.  Or better yet, go to MILK on Beverly (http://www.themilkshop...) and get an actual milkshake.

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125 Broadway
Santa Monica, CA 90401
(310) 260-2919

Xooro  

Categories: Desserts, Coffee & Tea, Chocolatiers and Shops
Neighborhood: Santa Monica

1 star rating
 7/24/2008  
I had been looking forward to trying the churros at Xooro since reading about it online and visiting their website a few weeks ago.  I mean, "the United States' first restaurant specializing in gourmet Spanish churros" and they also have 6 different gourmet hot chocolates?  Come on, let's go already.  I had hyped the place to two friends at work and we all went after lunch today.  First of all, there are 3 kinds of $4 hot chocolate on the menu at Xooro, not the 6 different gourmet versions described on the website (http://www.xooro.com).  The one I tried was so sweet I couldn't finish it.  Onto their specialty; "gourmet churros" - if a cold, stale, five dollar, 4 inch fritter with room temperature artificial flavoring spells gourmet in Spain, the only spanish I need to know is "no gracias".    We tried three of the selections on the menu and none of them were impressive, fresh or remotely warm.   I have no idea how a place that only serves questionable hot chocolate and overpriced, subpar churros is going to stay open very long.  I only wish I'd read the reviews on Yelp before I went so I could have nine bucks and 30 minutes of my life back.

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    Thanks for the link to the Esquire article on Nye's...and great review, by… More »

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    The Churro guy at Olvera St is soooo much better

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    read the compliment... now do it.

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