Bite at the Beach 2014 (Manhattan Beach, CA)

I had the pleasure of attending the First Annual Bite at the Beach in Manhattan Beach, which was ridiculously fun!  Although I rarely write about beer here, my guy is certainly a beer aficionado, which has rubbed off on me.  On our recent trip to Bruges and Brussels, he made it a point to try three new beers […]

California Pizza Kitchen (worldwide)

I don’t eat at many chain restaurants partially because I am constantly itching to try new cuisine, support local businesses, etc.  However, I have a few favorites that I occasionally revisit, like California Pizza Kitchen!  I first tried it in college, when there were only a few locations in Southern California and I loved it. […]

Cucina Enoteca (Irvine, CA)

Usually, I have a hand in picking out the restaurants that I go to with my friend and family, but this time we were visiting with my guy’s high school friends as a group.  Since most of them live relatively nearby, we headed to Cucina Enoteca! First of all, it is located in Irvine Spectrum […]

Kpasta (Long Beach, CA)

Some family who live abroad came to visit for a bit, and I had a chance to meet them for dinner during the week.  We initially planned to head to Michael’s Pizzeria, but ever since their Zagat article, it has been just too packed.  Since the wait was so long, we decided to head to […]

SPIN! Neapolitan Pizza (Orange, CA)

You may remember that I won $50 to SPIN! Pizza at the SoCal Social in October and in addition to the $10 they gave all of us attendees, I had a total of $60 to spend.  Woo! How could I possibly spend this much on two people?  Well, we decided to wait until we had at […]

Grimaldi’s Pizzeria (Las Vegas, NV)

Okay, so we WERE stuffed from the Carnival of Cuisine earlier in the day, but we only had a few drinks at Public House at dinner time. So by the time we were hungry again, it was super late and all we had access to were the late night pubs with bar snacks… and Grimaldi’s Pizzeria, […]