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I KNOW this doesn’t really count as a diner, but where else was I supposed to put it? The Sussex Teapot turns out to be about 10 minutes from our house and serves classic British dishes such as scones and jam, beans on toast, pie & mash and lots and lots of tea.
Here’s my choice for dinner: steak and kidney pie, mushy peas and mashed potatoes, which I’m 99% sure were made from Smash:
The mushy peas needed a bit of salt but were worthy of a British chip shop, but the pie was great. Instead of the semi-soggy pastry you get […]
THIS is one of those places we’ve driven past a few times but never stopped at. Well, until today. It has all the promise of being a great diner and looks awesome — it even matches my Mini’s roof. So this morning, after being diverted all over Belmont Shore thanks to a fire at the Marina Pacifica mall, we gave up on going to Hof’s Hut and headed for the Best Place Cafe.
It’s a big place, clean and tidy and there’s counter-service only. The menu is large Specials are advertised on the windows and I chose the ham steak with three eggs […]
THANKS to the Fantastic Cafe having a line of customers stretching out the door, we decided to give this little place a shot on Sunday afternoon. Both of us are big fans of crêpes thanks to La Crêperie on 2nd Street so it would be interesting to see how the Delightful Crêpes Cafe compared.
It’s nicely decorated inside and well-lit. After enquiring at the counter, we were told there was waiter service so we took a seated and waited. And waited. And waited. After 10 minutes of being waiting and being blinded by the sunlight coming through the window, we decided to change […]
EGGS ETC on Redondo Avenue is another one of those places we’ve driven by several times and have been meaning to try for ages. So, using my birthday as an excuse to get together, me and Ev met up with Jamie and Chris on a rainy Sunday morning to give it a shot. The diner has been at its location since 1975 and that, along with it being packed out with a 30-minute wait at 11am, is a testimony to how good the place is.
Once seated and served coffee we checked out the menu. I decided on the aloha scramble from the […]
CHICKEN DIJON is tucked into a corner of the Marina Pacifica mall, between the AMC cinema and Barnes & Noble. We’d been meaning to give it a try for a while, so after checking out the performance times for Green Hornet we went in.
The restaurant is one of those fusion places that takes Mediterranean and Asian food and tries to come to a compromise with them. It’s also got a partially French name which just adds to the confusion. And it’s bloody expensive, with the house salad costing $8.49. After looking over the menu I chose the gyro sandwich (which is apparently […]
EV SPOTTED this place on that Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives show (you know the one, it’s the programme presented by what a cheese fry would look like if it was human, only less intelligent). As we hadn’t been to a diner in ages we decided to head there and asked Jamie and Chris to come with us.
Thanks to its appearance on DDD the place was packed and we ended up waiting about 2o minutes, but it was well worth it. Our table was right at the back and pretty cramped but as I was dying to get my teeth into some form […]
ALTHOUGH it’s only a couple of miles from our place on Studebaker Road (or as Emily the GPS unit likes to call it, “Studd-eh-bakker”), we’ve never been to the Fantastic Cafe before. We’ve seen it a few times when popping into the 7-Eleven opposite but it wasn’t until an emergency coffee stop last week that we made a decision to give it a go.
It’s pretty basic inside but the menu is extensive and reasonably priced. There’s no waitress service; you just order at the counter, take your number and go find somewhere to sit. After having a look at what’s on offer […]
THE food wasn’t that good, but the drag show was […]
YOU’D have to go out of your way to come across Berth 55 by accident. Hidden away among the docks and cranes of the Port of Long Beach, we only found out about it through a friend of Ev’s. So we had to go check it out.
It’s pretty basic and the dining area is a bunch of plastic benches overlooking a dock but there’s loads of fresh seafood on offer at pretty good prices. The guy serving us was friendly and helpful and recommended some dishes. Ev went for salmon, barbecue shrimp and fries, I got swordfish with shrimp and rice, and […]
WE HEADED south this time, to the almost-a-trailer-park that is Orange County to try the Omelette Parlour in Costa Mesa. Jamie has been singing the praises of this place for ages so when the question of where to go for our weekly brekkies get-together came up she suggested the Omelette Parlour on Saturday so Ev could join us.
The menu is pretty extensive and they don’t just do omelettes. I was in the mood for something bacony and the Two To The Max seemed perfect: two large eggs, two slices of bacon, two slices of French toast and a large side of fried […]
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