Urth Cafe

Imagine your ideal cafe, filled with fresh wholesome foods, delicious organic drinks, and the best green tea latte ever... welcome to Urth Cafe. Urth Cafe is an organic coffee company serving only the highest quality coffee and food with various locations in LA. This is not the first time I've been to Urth but since my last visit I make sure that I pop by this amazing cafe each time I visit LA. They have both indoor and outdoor seating, I always prefer the outdoor seating.

Japanese Green Tea Latte
Best green tea latte ever. The flavor of the green tea is very strong and aromatic and you can tell that its high quality tea. The milk is rich and creamy along with the right amount of foam on the top. The drink is delicious and comforting. Another great this is the beautiful patterns and artwork they do on top of the drink with the foam. 

Mixed Berry Fruit Tart 
My friend and I have been eyeing this fruit tart the last time we visited Urth but we decided we were too full to try it. This time we were shamelessly staring at it again and decided we had to try it. The crust was delicious and the custard was sweet and creamy. The fruits on top were very fresh and looked lovely. Delicious! 

Sprout Sandwich with Sprouts, Onions, Avocado, Cheese, and Hummus 
This sandwich is the perfect example of how incredibly simple ingredients can result in an amazing meal. That is as long as the ingredients are of high quality and fresh! Essentially spring on a plate! The only complaint was that they ran out of the bread I wanted and this bread was a bit large so it was slightly difficult to eat. Other than that I loved it! 

Urth Cafe

267 S. Beverly Drive 

Beverly Hills 

Los Angeles

California 90212

How romantic...

I got these delicious garlic fries in Venice Beach. I joked to my boyfriend about whether he would kiss me even though I just devoured garlic smothered fries... he said he would. What a sweetheart :)

Curry House

Continuing with my mission of pigging out in LA my next destination was Curry House in Little Tokyo. Many of my friends who go to school in LA have raved about this cozy restaurant and after eating there it has become a new favorite of mine!

Deluxe Menchi Katsu Curry
Menchi katsu is a hamburger patty encrusted with panko and deep fried. It is then plopped on top of rice wrapped with scrambled eggs and smothered with a rich curry sauce. The hamburger patty had a great meaty flavor and was also very juicy. The panko was deep fried just right without being overly oily or mushy. The curry sauce had that tradition japanese style of being slightly sweet and not spicy at all. The egg covering the rice was slightly running which was perfect and smooth. Everything worked well together to create an amazing balance of taste and texture with the creaminess and smoothness of the egg to the bolder flavor of the curry and the crunchiness of the katsu. Delicious! 

Amazingly cooked egg wrapped around the rice

Curry House

Weller Court Shopping Center

123 S. Onizuka St. #204

Los Angeles

CA 90012

大黒家 Daikokuya Ramen

Daikokuya has the reputation as having the best ramen in LA and I have been dying to try it but there was always such an obscene wait that I never got to until this summer. Orochon ramen is also thought of by some as having the best ramen but I have been to both and I definitely prefer Daikokuya over Orochon. The depth of flavor and quality in Daikokuya's ramen is just far superior to that of Orochon. This time I was determined to eat at Daikokuya and my friend and I stayed strong and finally got a seat. It was definitely worth the wait and I was so glad I finally got to slurp on that glorious bowl of goodness.

Homemade Pork and Vegetable Gyoza 
The gyoza was super crispy and I loved how there were scallions scattered all over the top. Simple, well made, and delicious 

Salmon Roe Bowl The menu had a clever combination option where you could pair the famous Daikokuya ramen with a small rice bowl with choices such as pork cutlet, chicken teri, and tuna sashimi mini rice bowl. I chose the salmon roe rice bowl and it was very fresh and delicious. The rice was flavored with just the right amount of vinegar and cooked to the right texture. The salmon roe was savory and fresh. 

Daikokuya Ramen 
Finally!!! The infamous ramen is before me, ready to be consumed. The original soup already sounded incredibly rich and flavorful but my friend and I decided to be disgusting and go for the extra fatty "kotteri" flavor in which extra soup extracted from the pork back fat is used. Oh yes. The aroma was amazing and the noodles were chewy and had great texture. The soup was a dream come true and was everything I had wanted and more. The extra "kotteri" flavor definitely lived up to its promise and it was liquified pork glory. It was so rich that we could see globules of fat immersed in the soup. A tad disgusting but delicious none the less... just not a daily thing unless you want to become an actual pig. All the condiments in the ramen were also delicious. The bamboo shoots were crunchy and fresh, the cha siu melted in our mouths, and the egg was... also yummy. Overall it was a ramen dream in a bowl. 

Daikokuya Ramen

327 E 2st Street 

Little Tokyo

Los Angeles 

CA 90012

Crab House at Pier 39

It has been a very long time since my last post and I will definitely make an effort to get all the posts from summer completed. If I drag it on anymore it will be difficult for me to make accurate and detailed reviews of the food I enjoyed. The Crab House is a famous establishment at the popular Pier 39, its most famous dish is its "World Famous Dungeness Killer Crab". I am usually not a huge fan of eating crab because it take quite a lot of effort to get the meat out but with all the positive reviews I couldn't wait to dig in!

Excellent. What a cute and fun drink list :) 

I'm a sucker for bloody marys 

Ready to get messy with my apron on!

Clams in a Garlic Shallot Sauce with Linguine 
The clams were extremely fresh and sweet, it was cooked perfectly with a tasty garlic shallot sauce that did not overpower and mask the flavor and freshness of clams. The linguine was cooked to a perfect al dente and the leftover sauce was happily soaked up with bread.

Fish and Chips 
... of pretty epic proportions. A humongous slab of fish battered and fried to crispy perfection. The batter was not too thick and the fish was not overly greasy. The fish was well made but nothing creative or particularly memorable. The fries on the other hand was absolutely amazing. They were smothered in aromatic garlic bits that made the fries irresistible. 

World Famous 2+ lb Dungeness Killer Crab
The crab was drenches in the restaurant's "secret garlic sauce" that brought out the flavor of the crab perfectly. It was super tasty and the crab shell was cracked already so it was very easy to get the meat out and into my mouth :) The crab definitely lived up to its hype! Everyone should pop by here to try this amazing dish if you are in San Francisco! 

Conquered. Noms 

Crab House

203C Pier 39

San Francisco 

CA 94133