Showing posts with label sushi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sushi. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Healthy Eats: M Street Kitchen

Since I moved into my own apartment a few months ago, my mom and I try to see a movie or have dinner once a week to play catch up. It's been fun to explore Santa Monica for new restaurants to try, especially with so many Californian cuisine options. Westside locals are hot for anything organic, vegan or diet friendly, and M Street Kitchen is no exception.

At the edge of the oh-so-hip Main Street just minutes from my apartment, M Street Kitchen has heated outdoor seating and a cozy, layered indoor area. Our sinewy, dread-locked waiter had to have been a model and paid the utmost attention to us despite the place being packed. I had a glass of the riesling (my standby) and my mom found a jazzed-up version of her favorite drink, "Shakin' Lemonade": ketel one, lemonade, and rosemary served in a jar (how very LA).

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Sushi Kiyono Date


Before a holiday weekend filled with long-lost San Francisco friends, the Fairfax flea market and 70's roller disco, Quinn took me out to a mellow sushi date at Beverly Hills' Sushi Kiyono. Smack dab in the middle of Beverly Drive, the restaurant serves sashimi, nigiri, and Los Angeles themed sushi with names like the Show Me The Money or The Godfather.

Friday, March 4, 2011

Benihana Birthday

This is my little brother. Universally lauded as the coolest kid ever, Louis turned 11 on February 21st. Such a milestone was celebrated at one of his favorite restaurants,  a title earned by their pyrotechnics and food-as-entertainment schtick -- the one and only, Benihana. Last year, I had not yet fully come to appreciate Japanese cuisine as I do now (more sushi please), so I was looking forward to trying something brand new.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Romantic Robata

If I get to choose the restaurant, I almost always go for Italian. For Valentine's Day, I wanted to treat my lovely boyfriend Quinn to dinner, and to choose something more his taste. Katana, a hipper-than-hip Japanese restaurant, bar and lounge on the Sunset Strip. Serving Robata, Japanese comfort food grilled and served on skewers, as well as a plethora of sushi, Katana is a pricey spot for the young and beautiful. And they know it. Blasting euro-trance-techno-trash and filled with leggy, surgically enhanced women and the men that love them, Katana is worthwhile despite its ambiance. Its redeeming quality? The food, of course.
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