Sushi Sushi Sushi

Kobe beef w/ heirloom tomatoes...quite good.


Diakon, shitake mushrooms, in a perfect simple bonito based broth...


Porfiteroles.....


Basket of bananas foster....

Another great experience at Sushi Roku Hollywood..


Basket of bananas foster....

Sapphire Restaurant, Laguna

Make your own sushi.....soy paper, seaweed, crab sunomono, and hamachi in a citrus ponzu. Very refreshing, summer dish

Braised Pork Cheeks, with sweet potatoe gnocchi and black truffles. THE BEST dish I've had in recent years. Paired extremly well with the 1986 Mouton Rothschild....<---just kidding.

Colorado Lamb Loin, I don't normally like lamb but this loin cut was perfectly cooked and had very little gameyness to it.

Over all another great meal at Sapphire Restaurant in Laguna.

Din Tai Fung

Din Tai Fung is expanding quite quickly and has opened a new location in Arcadia, right next to the old one. It's newer, nicer, faster and the waitresses speak English very well. Check it out.

Tasty little dumplings

Pai gu fan...Pork Chop Rice

Saute'd String Beans

Soy Sauce, Black Vinegar and Ginger.....

Soup Plantation

Soup Plantation is a great place to have lots of choices. Just make sure if you're planning on "dieting" not to overload you plate and add 20 table spoons of Ranch dressing and then proceed to eat three plates of pasta ; )

Yamada Westwood

Fantastic architecture....beautiful ambiance, a little cold but very formal


Tai carpaccio, nice presentation, beautiful plateware, tasty.

American Kobe Beef Carpaccio, interesting presentation.... Grade B for being slightly above average


Fried Tofu (Agedashi) w/ a shishito pepper and slice of eggplant...


Seared blue fin tuna in ponzu.... this sliced kumquat theme seemed to be throughout their presentations...

Desserts: Green tea panna cotta & delicate white roll cake & pomegranat sorbet


Chantilly cream...w/ a lovely purple rose

Yamada is a longer open to my knowledge but it was a beautiful restaurant w/ above average food.

Zankou Chicken

Zankou Chicken, always good eats....used to be a little cheaper which made it even better.
If you ever have time to kill, check out the backstory about the Zankou Chicken original owner.

Jiro Kobayashi's Omakase

Banana spring rolls.....

TZ, avocado "diced chili".....for those vegetarians in your life ; )

Yellowtail.....


Uni....


Yellowfin tuna on jap cucumbers...


Seared scallops with a nest of potatoes...


Baked pink scallops and baked oysters....