Cafe Brulin

Well Cafe Brulin is in the same building as my shop. So i have eaten there and will eat there a lot. First off it has been there for along time. Over 10 years so it is not a new eatery, but it is great. They serve German food there. As far as I know the food is fairly authentic. But having not been to Germany I don't know for sure.

I mostly eat there for lunch because it seams like the best deal but it really is just the timing. Tuesday-Friday 11am-4pm (they are closed on Mondays) most of the time I get the Kohlrouladen. a meat stuffed cabbage roll topped with our special brown gravy. or the Wiener Schnitzel a breaded veal cutlet topped with fried onions served with lemon. Now that comes with 2 sides even tho I get different stuff. I always get the spatzle, It is so great light and pillowy. The other sides are red cabbage, sauerkraut, vegetable of the day, hot german potato salad, german fried potatoes. the hot potato salad is just roasted potatos with bacon (awesome!)

I love Cafe Brulin and i would eat there at least once a week if I could!

Up Date

To all those who actually read this...

well sorry that it has been like forever seance i have posted anything. My life has been supper busy, between watching Evelyn, helping around the house and getting my shop open. i just haven't had the motivation to write about what I eat. but I'm going to get back to it and be more regular.

Good places that i have found that I will be reviewing soon, but I want to list them before I forget. H Burger Co., Cafe Brulin, The Salad Bowl, Jimmy Johns.

Also on a side note Rachel got me a bad ass rice cooker. Now i can have good rice as I need it, YAY!

the squeaky bean

Well we went to the squeaky bean for dinner for the first time. Both Rachel and I were excited buy the Brussel sprouts salad the sprouts are Roasted, shaved, with hazelnuts, raw honey, raisins, aged cheddar. I had the Duck confiet sandwich. I don't remember what Rachel had it has been a wile seance we have gone.

One afternoon for lunch I had the beat cured lox., it was really good. Maybe a touch too much dill but thats just because i don't care for a lot of dill. sorry this is so short and vague but I started working on this post like 3 months ago and I'm now just finishing it.

But to some up The Squeaky Bean its great and i need to go back.

Bones

Well 2010 starts off with a bang. Bones is a little place off of 7th and Grant that will surprise you. I wasn't sure what to expect when we walked in. I knew it was noodles and got one of the best new restraints of 2009 in 5280. we sat down and looked over the menu, started with cocktails. I got the Green Tea Press and my wife got the Suntory Manhattan. Both were very good, not to strong and mixed well.

Next we Picked some streamed suckling pig seam buns to start. there was more surprises when they came out. I was expecting just some regular seam buns like you would get at dim sum. But it was much better, the sweet bread was folded in 1/2 and pulled pork surved with a hoisin sauce.

Then we got our noodles. I had ordered the Udon ( Slow Cooked Pork Shoulder from Salmon Creek Farms, 
Poached Egg ) and Rachel Ordered the Ramen ( Poached Lobster, Edamame, Miso Lobster Broth). The Udon; I was Surprised again with the richness of the broth and the touch of ginger but not over powering. The noodle its self was the best I have had out side of japan. They are pillowy and so good, the only thing that's bad is they cut the noodles.

The Ramen comes in this broth that is just golden and rich. It his buttery are full of lobster flavor. I never thought that I lobster stock could be so thick and hardy. The noodles for that were thick unlike most other ramen I have had.

Rachel and I traded after tasting what the other had ordered. both were very good I was so happy with both. To finish we had the Peanutbutter and and chocolate ovaltine soft serve ice cream, that's made in house. it was rich and not grainy like most soft serve can be.

I highly recommend going every thing was very good.

the best and worst of 09

so sorry i haven't been bloging in along time. 09 was not the best year and i have been busy with my daughter. she takes up a lot of my time but twenty ten well be much better. now with that aside, on to the food.

well seance April (the last time i wrote) i have eaten a lot of good and bad food. lets start with the bad. Jose's in old down town littleton is about the worst Mexican food i have had in a wile. The place caters to old people and the menu reflects that. Its bland and cheep but not in a good way you can just taste that everything is caned.

Landery's fish house, is next on the bad list. Its over priced and the food came out to us just warmed up. we went there for lunch, the first people in the door and the food was still cold. you could tell that it was just frozen and warmed up.

The old Blinking light, maybe its just wasn't want we were expecting but it wasn't vary good. its a tex-mex odd fusion place. i had a posole soup and it just wasnt good and sorta over priced.

The Boat House in central park in NYC. it was just ok and over priced.

not that my cooking has been great this year. i have had some missteps. like the the famed "spite" potatoes. well i dont know why but i was making mashed potatoes. i asked my wife to taste them and see what they needed. she said more milk ( after i had already put in a bunch). well in my (stupid) head i thought "i'll show you more milk" and accidentally put in WAY too much. well then i couldn't fix them. So she tried too fix them with salt. well they turned in to a mess and it was bad. there were some other failures in the kitchen this year. like the brazed pork belly, i couldn't get it to work.

The thing that's getting me is Fast Food. I'm having a love hate relationship with it. I have been eating more fast food because my daughter is eating it. now i could not give it to her but its just the easiest thing sometimes. but that means I'm eating more. like McDonald's nuggets, there is a part of my brain that loves them. Popeyes chicken it tastes so good but makes my stomach feel bad. Arby's is the best when its just a regular boast beef but you get a side of french dip sauce. I use the word "sauce" and not ai joue because they put this wired thicker in it. Jimmy Johns isn't bad or good but i don't get why they don't have a hot sandwich?

now on to the good stuff form the last 6 months. Beatrice and Woodsley, we went there 2 or 3 times i think and every time it was amazing. the one thing that stood out for me was the BBQ pork belly with smoked oysters.

Black Pearl lunch, is great. we hadn't been over the for lunch before but it is worth it if your looking for a nice up scale lunch.

Now it NYC we did have some good food like soup dumplings at Joe's shanghai. if you get a chance check out your local dumpling house for soup dumplings they are great. Duck taco things in flushing meadows Chinatown. they are pillow sweet bread folded around duck, duck skin, and veg with a sauce. they are a great little 2 bites.

There are the regular places that we eat that are always good. Raman House, Little Inda, Toast, John Hollies, The Empress, Lansdowne Arms,

I cooked some good stuff this year as well. the hollie days have been full of good food. Thanks giving was on of the best we have had. we have the full spread with Turkey, roasted brussel sprouts, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes (a ricer solved the potato cooking problem), stuffing muffins.

we had a Holiday dinner party, and made chicken and duck pot pies. i roasted a duck and that worked out great, for the first duck i ever cooked. the pot pies turned out good. Rachel made a challah bead and cupcakes that turned out good.

I made a fresh ham for Christmas day that turned out good, i was the first time that i had done a fresh ham.

well i'm looking forwarded to twenty ten and the food that it will bring.

well

L.A. Eats

Recently I went to Los Angeles and i didn't really see that much of it I was there for work. I was however able to find some good places to eat. The only places I found were between the the convention center and my hotel. I wanted to go eat sushi and some fine dining. but once I was done for the day I was SO tired. Going out wasn't going to happen. One night I was so tied I had a sandwich form the hotel bar. it was not not good ( to say the least), but it was all the energy I could muster. Now with that out of the way I did find some good food out there.


first place that I found was Pizza next door we just got some pizza by the slice but it was the best pizza ever. I got the Meat Deluxe - Pepperoni, Sausage, Canadian Ham, & Bacon... BACON! It was great, not just bacon bits but a whole strip of bacon. Toppings aside, the sauce as fresh and not too sweet and a real tomato taste.

It was hard to get away form the convention so I decided to get snacks for the next day. I found Famima it is a Japanese style convince store. Having every thing for soda to sushi, some of the best things are Spicy Char Siew Pork Steamy Bun, spam roll, salmon onigiri and drinks like Bubble up and Ramune.

After look for a good breakfast place I found The Pantry Cafe It has been in L.A. seance 1924 and is a cultural monument. The food it reasonably priced, I spent twice as much for the same breakfast down the street the morning before I found The pantry. I sat at the small counter, and had the Bacon and eggs, french toast and hash browns. The food, service and fell of the place was good and real. The eggs came on a plate with 6 pieces of bacon on top which was great. the ham stake ( which the guy next to me had) was huge and came the same way, on top of the eggs. the french toast was on a plate of its own and there was a separate plate for the hash browns as well.

so if your in down town L.A. there are some good places to eat and not expensive.

land of sushi

well we went to the "land of sushi" of lunch. we got there and we were the only ones there at first. witch was a little scary. we found this place on line looking for close sushi places to the house.

we started with the Gyoza it was really good. it reminded us of the Gyoza we had in Tokyo at this ilttle Gyoza place. well with that our faith was lifted. then the rest to the food came. I had the pork donbori, it was a breaded fired pork cutlet with onions, egg, and a light soy sauce. Rachel had the Maki lunch had California roll and a spicy tuna roll.

well the Japanese food was why better then the sushi. I also had a 2 Inari and Tamago (egg) and they were put together oddly and the fish wasn't the best. with the Gyoza the stand out part of the meal. land of sushi is not a good name for the restaurant

land of sushi