As I we entered the parking lot to Brodard Restaurant, my cousin asked me “Uhh, why am I driving over parking spaces?” Exactly.

Why is the drive to the entrance lined with faded paint and crumbled concrete?
Why is this restaurant lodged behind the 99 Cents Only store, hidden from view from the main streets?
And why [...]

When Zon Baguettes first opened, I got some sort of cheesy chain-store feel from their logo. “Don” means crunchy–”Zon” is where I get 2-day shipping with Prime.
With Hoolux, I got to finally try Vietnamese sandwiches–or banh mi, at Zon Baguettes. We got the Dac Biet (special) featuring headcheese, Viet bacon, porkroll (lol. ?!. cha lua), [...]

That’s right SASOON CHICKEN. Even the posted newspaper inside doesn’t get the name right.
Sasoon dishes out consistently delicious Armenian food. They have tummy busting quantities at a very fair price. Over the years I have noticed the prices have slowly crept up, but it’s still decent.
I believe this is a family run business and the [...]

We were heading back from an awesome concert for my birthday (!!) and were looking for some new good eats. The Hollywood area was jammed–no way we were going to endure traffic that bad to grab a bite. A Trusty a trusty mobile Yelp search for pizza lead us home towards Newport Beach.
There’s Pizza open [...]

Upon arriving at Sushi Murasaki, I was a bit confused. It was strange to see this restaurant on the bottom floor of a two story office building, like some low-rent extra space up for grabs. It wasn’t its own unit, it was just like a hollowed out office turned into a restaurant. However, this seems [...]