Irish coffee house - West Hollywood

Irish coffee house - West Hollywood

west hollywood  

I came here to kill some time. This place is so tiny, there were total 4 tables on the first floor and they were so close to each other so you can hear what people are talking about. Since I like cafes in Koreatown, this is not the place for me. This place is ok if you just wanna grab coffee and pastries to go on the way to work, but not the place I wanna stay.

Cafe Latte (S) $2.60 and chocolate croissant $2.75
My latte look like cappuccino. Nothing special.

Maybe there were total about 1 teaspoonful of chocolate inside, but really, chocolate parts were only outside. And I must say, pastries at whole foods are better than this. I guess this place doesn't care about the quality of the pastries.

Rating : 2.7 / 5
Service: 3 / 5
Repeat: No

Irish coffee house 
8470 Santa Monica Blvd
West Hollywood, CA 90069
 (310) 855-3564

Mon-Fri 8 am - 8 pm
Sat 9 am - 8 pm
Sun 10 am - 6 pm

http://www.theirishcoffeehouse.com/
 
http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-irish-coffee-house-west-hollywood
 

Purgatory pizza - Downtown

Purgatory pizza - Downtown

downtown LA  

This hole in the wall type of pizza place is located east of Downtown L.A. I never had a chance to come here because this place close early. But I finally tried last week. We already had dim sum lunch, so we were not so hungry. We each got a slice of pepperoni pizza. The pizza was not good as we expected. I like Papi's pizza better than here.

Pepperoni pizza (slice)

Rating : 3 / 5
Service: 3 / 5
Repeat: Maybe

Purgatory pizza
1326 E 1st St
Los Angeles, CA 90033

(323) 262-5310

Mon-Fri 11:30 am - 11 pm
Sat-Sun 12 pm - 11 pm
 
http://www.eatpurgatorypizza.com/

http://www.yelp.com/biz/purgatory-pizza-los-angeles-2

Blueberry sage olive oil cake for diet people

Blueberry sage olive oil cake for diet people

cooking  

Low fat blueberry sage olive oil cake. You don't need butter, I also changed the original recipe and cut down sugar, olive oil, and egg. It's still tasty and easy to make.

Recipe adapted from Dinner Vine

Blueberry sage olive oil cake   makes 1 loaf
 

1.5 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 cup sugar

1 egg

2 Tbsp flax seed + 6 Tbsp water

3 tsp lemon zest

2 tsp chopped, fresh sage

1 cups fresh blueberries

1/4 cup milk (I used nonfat)

1/2 tsp vanilla

1/4 cup extra virgin Olive Oil

*Powdered sugar for topping cake

1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Prepare loaf pan with butter and flour, set aside

3. Combine dry ingress: flour, baking powder, salt.

4. In small separate bowl, toss berries and fresh sage with 2 T flour.

5. In bowl of an electric mixer combine eggs, flax seed, lemon zest and sugar, beating well.

Add vanilla. Beat in milk. Add oil, gradually until incorporated.

6. Add dry ingredient mix gradually till combined, only stirring lightly.

7.Now gently stir in blueberry/sage mixture until folded.

8.Bake in loaf pan for about 40-50 min depending on pan and oven. Mine took 50 min, until toothpick inserted into center came out clean.

9.Cool cake in pan, on rack for about 40 min, and slice.

10.Dust top with powdered sugar and serve warm or at temperature.

Fig & Olive - West Hollywood

Fig & Olive - West Hollywood

west hollywood  

It was back in October, 2011, I finally had a chance to come here. It was still Dine LA week so we ordered from Dine LA menu, and also from regular menu.

I really enjoyed the food. I also like that big open space.
Fig & Olive serves the food that I normally don't eat (which is great), and everything really tasted fresh.

Dine LA menu (Oct. 2011) $28
I chose soup, Tajin, and Crostini

Delicious bread. Brioche, croissant, raisin bread, baguette,,, this basket was filled with my favorite breads!

Really delicious jams. I bet they are homemade.

I can't remember, but I think it was Cote D'Azur fish soup

Northern Italian mushroom & truffle soup
Cremini mushroom soup, garlic, onion, thyme,white truffle olive oil

Mushroom Crostini, came with mushroom soup

Zucchini Carpaccio $12
Zucchini finished with olive oil, lemon, pine nuts, parmesan - Picholine olive

Couscous salad ( came with Tajine below)
couscous salad with cilantro and harissa

Fig & Olive Tajine
Free range chicken marinated with moroccan spices, served with fig, olive, apricot, carrot, zucchini, onion, toasted almond

Dessert crostini
Amarena cherry, Mascarpone, pistachio on shortbread with Micro-basil

One of the best dessert I've had. I was amazed how shortbread can be so tasty just adding some cherry and Mascarpone. 

Rating : 3.9 / 5
Service: 4 / 5
Repeat: Yes

Fig & Olive
8490 Melrose Pl
West Hollywood, CA 90069
(310) 360-9100

Mon-Fri 12 pm - 3 pm
Mon-Tue 6 pm - 10:30 pm
Wed-Thu 6 pm - 11 pm
Fri-Sat 5:30 pm - 11:30 pm
Sat-Sun 11:30 am - 3 pm
Sun 6 pm - 10 pm
Parking:Valet

http://www.figandolive.com/

http://www.yelp.com/biz/fig-and-olive-west-hollywood

Peanut Butter Banana Muffins

Peanut Butter Banana Muffins

cooking  

I have 6 peanut butter at home and I need to used them so I made peanut butter banana muffins. This recipe is easy, and also use no butter and no eggs.

I also used Nordic Ware mini bundt cupcake pan.

Recipe adapted from a full measure of happiness

Peanut Butter Banana Muffins

2 ripe bananas

1/3 cup honey

1/3 cup peanut butter

2/3 cup fat-free plain yogurt

1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/8 cup sugar

1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour

cinnamon sugar for topping (optional)

1.Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.  Line muffin tins with baking cups and lightly spray with canola oil.

2.Mix the wet ingredients together–mashed banana, honey, peanut butter, yogurt, and vanilla.  In a separate bowl, combine the dry ingredients (flours, salt, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, and cinnamon).

3.Add the wet and dry together and stir until just combined–overmixing leads to tough muffins.

4.Spoon the batter into the muffin tin until the cups are 3/4 full, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar, and bake on the middle rack in the oven for 15 minutes.

Boba 7 - Downtown, L.A.

Boba 7 - Downtown, L.A.

downtown LA  

New hidden boba place in Downtown! It's located inside Soi 7. Just walk in, keep going straight back.
They have yelp check-in special, it's $1 off. Sweet.

I like this place because they have some unique boba drinks such as alcoholic boba drink, horchata with honey boba, and green apple green tea.Yogurt soju and boba? I never thought about it. I've gotta try that.

menu

Horchata with honey boba $4 and taro mochi bun $1.50. I used $1 off so the total was $4.50.

Taro mochi bun is from flour + tea in Pasadena. Flour + Tea is one of the place I've been wanting to go since their opening day, but I never got a chance to go but now, I can get in DTLA!

Boba 7
518 W 7th St
Los Angeles, CA 90014
(213) 538-8022

Tue-Wed 2 pm - 8 pm
Thu-Sat 2 pm - 10 pm

http://www.yelp.com/biz/boba-7-los-angeles-2