http://www.50meals.com One Blogger. One Year. 50 Meals Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:54:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you remember meal #25 from last year, you'd know that I'm a huge fan of Spices up in San Francisco. Spices is hard core deviant food at its best, most of it is spicy, a lot of it is dramatic, and all of it is just plain good. ... http://www.50meals.com/2008/08/18/229-spices-3/ I first heard about this place from Matt, whose enthusiasm for good food seems to exceed mine. Hard core garlic fried live crabs? OKAY! Since the place is called Dungeness Island, I expected it to be all about crabs. Like, you know, Jurassic Park, but with crabs. Surprisingly, there's a ... http://www.50meals.com/2008/08/15/228-ppq-dungeness-island/ If you remember last year, we had about a month's worth of entries featuring restaurants in the San Francisco Bay area, and what a glorious month it was. Once again we are in San Francisco, a city that begs you to be hungry at all times. House of Prime ... http://www.50meals.com/2008/08/07/227-house-of-prime-rib/ I'll just start by saying this: I LOVE Korean food. These Asian brothers and sisters know how to eat! And the selection of Korean food here in LA is just spectacular, just take a quick drive over to Korea Town and see for yourself. Well, Ondal 2 isn't quite in K-Town, ... http://www.50meals.com/2008/08/02/226-ondal-2/ I have many fond memories of our establishment for meal #25, year two. I came to Pho So 1 at least once a week while at UCLA. The food is cheap, it came out fast, and right next door is Ranch 99 where you can pick up most anything you'd ... http://www.50meals.com/2008/07/21/225-pho-so-1/ My search for hard core seafood at casual prices continues, we have a pretty solid place lined up for this week. Captain Kidd's in Redondo Beach is half seafood market, half restaurant. It's a little confusing, but there are three lines. One line is for drinks -- they have a ... http://www.50meals.com/2008/07/07/224-captain-kidds/ This place is such a hole in the wall. I swear. THREE TABLES in this tiny joint. So bare bone, there's no room for a cash register. One man runs it with some occasional help, so don't come here if you have a party of 15 looking for a quick ... http://www.50meals.com/2008/07/02/223-railroad-bento/ Some of you might be familar with Lee's sandwiches. It's a chain of Vietnamese Sandwich shops around San Gabriel and Westminster. If you're not familar with Lee's Sandwiches, you might be wondering: "What's so special about Vietnamese sandwiches, and how is it worthy of a 50meal?" Well, first of all, ... http://www.50meals.com/2008/07/02/222-lees-sandwiches/ Live in LA but dying for some of that New York style pizza? Here you go! Joe's Pizza of Bleecker Street now has a location right here in Santa Monica, on Broadway at Ocean Avenue, just one block from the beach. It's a tiny hole in the wall, with only ... http://www.50meals.com/2008/06/26/221-joes-pizza-of-bleecker-street-santa-monica/ Hey, do you wanna build your own burger? Do you wanna choose your meat, cheese, toppings, sauce, even the kind of bread your burger sits on? YES PLEASE! The Counter is a great burger joint in Santa Monica and was introduced to me (a long time ago) by my former ... http://www.50meals.com/2008/06/18/220-the-counter/