Hi
My name is Kevin, and I'm a foodie, gourmet, gourmand, gastronome, epicure, bon vivant, whichever label you prefer. I've been pursuing this passion since late 2004, and started documenting my experiences in August of 2006 (fyi: my first post was Alinea). However, this blog, in its current form, only began in March 2008.
For easier navigation, I've put together a list of links to all my posts, separated by region. Michelin-starred establishments are denoted by asterisks:
California-South: 555 East | Ad Hoc at Home Book Signing | Angelini Osteria | Animal | Annapurna Cuisine | A.O.C. | Arterra | * Asanebo | Ashoka the Great | Bashan | * Bastide | The Bazaar [2] | Beachwood BBQ | Binh Dan | Bistango | Bistro 31 | Blanca | Blogger Prom | Bluefin | BondSt | Bouchon | Brodard | Brodard Chateau | Café Hiro | Café Tu Tu Tango | Canelé | Capo | Catal | Charlie Palmer at Bloomingdale's | Church & State | Ciudad | Club 33, Disneyland [2] [3] [4] | The Counter | The Courtyard | Craft | * CUT [2] [3] | Dal Rae | * The Dining Room at The Langham | Drago Centro | Echigo | Father's Office | Fogo de Chão | Ford's Filling Station | Fraiche | Frenchy's Bistro | Garden Room | Giang Nan | Go's Mart | * Gordon Ramsay at The London | Grace | Gyenari | Gyu-Kaku | Hachi | The Hat | Hatchi at Breadbar [2] | * Hatfield's [2] | Houston's | I Love Sushi | Ira's Gourmet | Izakaya Zero | Izayoi | Jar | Jeon Ju | Joe's Restaurant | Kasen | Kokekokko | * La Botte | La Casita Mexicana | Lawry's The Prime Rib | Lazy Ox Canteen | Leatherby's Cafe Rouge [2] | LudoBites at Breadbar [2] | LudoBites at Royal/T [2] [3] | Marché Moderne | Mario's Peruvian Seafood | Mashti Malone's | Mastro's Steakhouse | ** Mélisse | Mo-Chica | Muse | Musha | Napa Rose [2] [3] | Neptune's Lounge | Newport Seafood | Niwattori | Nozomi | Old Vine Café | One Sunset | Original Tommy's | * Ortolan | * Osteria Mozza | ParkAve | * Patina | Phuket Thai | Pizzeria Mozza | Pizzeria Ortica | ** Providence [2] [3] [4] [5] | R23 | Raffi's Place | Rivera [2] [3] | Saam at The Bazaar | Saddle Peak Lodge | Seol Ak San | Shibucho | Shiro | A Slice of New York Pizza | * Sona [2] | ** Spago | Stefan's at L.A. Farm | Stonehill Tavern | Studio | Surah | Sushi Sasabune | Sushi Wasabi | Sushi Wave | * Sushi Zo | Tagine | Taléo Grill | The Tasting Kitchen | Thai Nakorn | Thang Long Restaurant | Torihei | Totoraku [2] | * Trattoria Tre Venezie | Tsuruhashi | ** Urasawa [2] [3] [4] [5] | * Valentino | Volcano Burgers | Wakasan [2] | * Water Grill | Wine Cottage Bistro | Wurstküche | XIV [2] | Young Dong Tofu
California-North: Ad Hoc | Aqua | * Bouchon | Cakebread Cellars | ** Coi | ** Cyrus | * Dining Room | * Fifth Floor | *** French Laundry | ** Manresa | * Masa's Restaurant | ** Meadowood, The Restaurant | * Michael Mina | The Red Grape | Slanted Door | Taylor's Automatic Refresher | Vik's Chaat Corner
Colorado: Blue Star [2] | Blue Vervain | Charles Court | Fruition | Kevin Taylor | Metropolitain [2] | Mizuna | Nosh | Penrose Room | Phantom Canyon Brewing Co | Plate | Rioja | Summit [2] | Walter's Bistro | Zengo
New York: * Adour | Carnegie Deli | Danube | Famous Original Ray's Pizza | Gray's Papaya | *** Jean Georges | *** Le Bernardin | Lombardi's | Papaya King | *** Per Se | * Veritas
Nevada: * Bar Charlie | Bar Masa | CUT | *** Joël Robuchon [2] | Julian Serrano | * L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon | ** Picasso | ** Restaurant Guy Savoy [2] | Sage | Twist by Pierre Gagnaire
Japan: Gonpachi | Ikesu | Imahan | Kaji | * Kyubey | Little Hokkaido | Natori | Okaryo
Illinois: Alinea [2] | Charlie Trotter's | L2O | Moto | Pizzeria Uno | TRU
District of Columbia: Central Michel Richard | Citronelle | Oyamel
North Carolina: Luce | Mimosa Grill | Ratcliffe on The Green
Virginia: The Inn at Little Washington
Wisconsin: L'Etoile
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For easier navigation, I've put together a list of links to all my posts, separated by region. Michelin-starred establishments are denoted by asterisks:
California-South: 555 East | Ad Hoc at Home Book Signing | Angelini Osteria | Animal | Annapurna Cuisine | A.O.C. | Arterra | * Asanebo | Ashoka the Great | Bashan | * Bastide | The Bazaar [2] | Beachwood BBQ | Binh Dan | Bistango | Bistro 31 | Blanca | Blogger Prom | Bluefin | BondSt | Bouchon | Brodard | Brodard Chateau | Café Hiro | Café Tu Tu Tango | Canelé | Capo | Catal | Charlie Palmer at Bloomingdale's | Church & State | Ciudad | Club 33, Disneyland [2] [3] [4] | The Counter | The Courtyard | Craft | * CUT [2] [3] | Dal Rae | * The Dining Room at The Langham | Drago Centro | Echigo | Father's Office | Fogo de Chão | Ford's Filling Station | Fraiche | Frenchy's Bistro | Garden Room | Giang Nan | Go's Mart | * Gordon Ramsay at The London | Grace | Gyenari | Gyu-Kaku | Hachi | The Hat | Hatchi at Breadbar [2] | * Hatfield's [2] | Houston's | I Love Sushi | Ira's Gourmet | Izakaya Zero | Izayoi | Jar | Jeon Ju | Joe's Restaurant | Kasen | Kokekokko | * La Botte | La Casita Mexicana | Lawry's The Prime Rib | Lazy Ox Canteen | Leatherby's Cafe Rouge [2] | LudoBites at Breadbar [2] | LudoBites at Royal/T [2] [3] | Marché Moderne | Mario's Peruvian Seafood | Mashti Malone's | Mastro's Steakhouse | ** Mélisse | Mo-Chica | Muse | Musha | Napa Rose [2] [3] | Neptune's Lounge | Newport Seafood | Niwattori | Nozomi | Old Vine Café | One Sunset | Original Tommy's | * Ortolan | * Osteria Mozza | ParkAve | * Patina | Phuket Thai | Pizzeria Mozza | Pizzeria Ortica | ** Providence [2] [3] [4] [5] | R23 | Raffi's Place | Rivera [2] [3] | Saam at The Bazaar | Saddle Peak Lodge | Seol Ak San | Shibucho | Shiro | A Slice of New York Pizza | * Sona [2] | ** Spago | Stefan's at L.A. Farm | Stonehill Tavern | Studio | Surah | Sushi Sasabune | Sushi Wasabi | Sushi Wave | * Sushi Zo | Tagine | Taléo Grill | The Tasting Kitchen | Thai Nakorn | Thang Long Restaurant | Torihei | Totoraku [2] | * Trattoria Tre Venezie | Tsuruhashi | ** Urasawa [2] [3] [4] [5] | * Valentino | Volcano Burgers | Wakasan [2] | * Water Grill | Wine Cottage Bistro | Wurstküche | XIV [2] | Young Dong Tofu
California-North: Ad Hoc | Aqua | * Bouchon | Cakebread Cellars | ** Coi | ** Cyrus | * Dining Room | * Fifth Floor | *** French Laundry | ** Manresa | * Masa's Restaurant | ** Meadowood, The Restaurant | * Michael Mina | The Red Grape | Slanted Door | Taylor's Automatic Refresher | Vik's Chaat Corner
Colorado: Blue Star [2] | Blue Vervain | Charles Court | Fruition | Kevin Taylor | Metropolitain [2] | Mizuna | Nosh | Penrose Room | Phantom Canyon Brewing Co | Plate | Rioja | Summit [2] | Walter's Bistro | Zengo
New York: * Adour | Carnegie Deli | Danube | Famous Original Ray's Pizza | Gray's Papaya | *** Jean Georges | *** Le Bernardin | Lombardi's | Papaya King | *** Per Se | * Veritas
Nevada: * Bar Charlie | Bar Masa | CUT | *** Joël Robuchon [2] | Julian Serrano | * L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon | ** Picasso | ** Restaurant Guy Savoy [2] | Sage | Twist by Pierre Gagnaire
Japan: Gonpachi | Ikesu | Imahan | Kaji | * Kyubey | Little Hokkaido | Natori | Okaryo
Illinois: Alinea [2] | Charlie Trotter's | L2O | Moto | Pizzeria Uno | TRU
District of Columbia: Central Michel Richard | Citronelle | Oyamel
North Carolina: Luce | Mimosa Grill | Ratcliffe on The Green
Virginia: The Inn at Little Washington
Wisconsin: L'Etoile
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posted by kevinEats at
6:51 PM
43 Comments:
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Hurry back from Japan and post! I wanna hear all about this fugu!
Great pictures and detailed comments! A lot of research is done.
Kevin - I follow your posts via chowhound. You're one of my favorite reviewers. Thanks for putting up this blog - its easier to read than your myspace page.
"There is no love sincerer than the love of food."
Bon Appetit!
Welcome to foodblogging on blogger! :)
I agree that this is easier to read than the myspace blog.
write more! i love reading your posts
That's cool I was just going to suggest to you this type of arrangement!!!
Thank you for this, Kevin ! It makes it very easy for me to find things now :)
I'm off to Charlie Palmer's for lunch tomorrow - wish me luck. So far, most people have given it a thumbs down...
Yeah I thought having an index of sorts would help organize things.
Good luck on CP. Hopefully it'll be better for you than me!
Great blog, awesome pictures from Manresa. Definitely one of my top 3 restaurants (Manresa, Coi, Stone Barns). Thanks, Ryan
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Thanks Ryan. I just checked out your site and you have some pretty serious stuff on there!
So what are your plans now that you're done with Orson?
Great! Looking forward to more posts!
Thanks Sharon! You have quite a nice blog there yourself too. ;)
Could you put a 'Follow This Blog' button on your site...go to 'Edit Post' and then 'Layout' and you can add things and personalize your site with further information on yourself... -Chef E
I'm not following. When I go to "Edit Posts," I don't have anything labeled "Layout."
On the main page, there is a "Subscribe to Posts" link if that's what you're looking for.
So glad that I found your blog!!!
Thanks Joey! How did you find it?
Kevin! I love your blog, and I have to say we have some very similar tastes in food.
I would love for you to post a "best of" or favorites in Los Angeles! Or if you could name your top 3 restaurants here, it'd be very helpful.
Thanks, and keep on blogging!
Thanks! The top restaurant in LA for me is easy: Urasawa. As for the rest, it's not so clear, but Providence, Spago, CUT, and Sushi Zo are up there. Bastide too, if it were still around.
hi kevin--if you're taking requests (!), here's mine: one of the momofuku restuarants in NYC--preferably ssäm bar. i'm dying for insider intel...
regards,
lori
Lori, I was sort of planning to go to Momofuku Ko on my NY trip over the holidays, but then Per Se came through! ;)
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Thanks, I'm glad you've been enjoying the blog.
I'm still figuring out what I want to do for a living. The current economic turmoil hasn't made things easier!
I think it's not so much an issue about "affording" to dine out as it is about priorities, and food for me is a high priority. So for example, next time, put down the Louboutins and go to Urasawa instead. ;)
Hi there, well I was in Chicago a couple of months ago (horrible timing..weather was bad bad bad!) but.. ALINEA made it all worth while.. I had the full tasting with the wine pairing.. did you get that too? It was heaven..and our servers were soo helpful. Looking at all your pictures made me hungry all over again... anyways, have you ever checked out a blog called the "hungry hedonist"? I don't think she has been updating it recently..but she had some amazing photos of places she tried... go check it out!
Glad to hear you had a good time at Alinea. Yes I had the wine pairing; it's really the way to go with wine, as given the multitude of flavors in the Tour, you'd be hard pressed to come up with a bottle that goes with everything.
I wasn't familiar with Hungry Hedonist. She has some nice reviews (including Alinea), but sorely needs to update--the last post was in July 2008!
wow! simply wow! love your blog!!! <3
Thanks J! How did you discover it?
So it looks like you recently went to Breadbar for Ludo Bites. I am interested on what your thoughts are but it seems as though the Vegas trip will need to be taken care of first.
The Vegas trip, and three other places will have to be dispensed with prior to Ludo Bites. Though the meal had its share of misses, overall I had a positive experience there, and I eagerly await Ludo's opening of his own restaurant.
totally in love with your blog, and a bit jealous of many of your foodings. thanks for the posts!
You're quite welcome. Are there any particular places that've interested you?
Is there anyway to view your most recent restaurant visits?
Yes, there certainly is. Look on the right hand side of the page and find the "Previous Posts" section; this lists my last nine posts.
So I made tentative reservations, haha... we'll see if I can follow through. Nice finally getting to meet you in person after all this time.
Vinh, nice to finally meet you too man. Bring your friend next week. ;)
Kevin
-First of all, thanks for sharing your experiences...I came across your blog by chance, and man, I couldn't stop reading and surveying your list of places. Will certainly come back to your blog whenever we're back in SoCal.
Also, surprised you haven't reviewed Campenile, which is one of our favs! Dude, I dig your pics and your descriptions, really gives us the feel of "being there"!
Peace,
Ron
Thanks Ron! I think you hit the nail on the head; what I aim to do here is to document a meal so it is really like "being there." You're right about Campanile though--I should make it out there some time!
Nice Blog! I don't see fleur de lys...I'd love to read your review on that.
Ahh Fleur de Lys...maybe next time I'm in San Francisco.
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Couldn't make it to Hatchi with Marcel?
In Las Vegas for Bar Masa debut. ;)
Hi, just found out your blog. What a nice review and picture you have here. I love Alinea too and would love to come back later :)
Yun, I just read your Alinea post. Nice job on it, and your blog in general!
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