It's About Where You At

Long time, no update. More coming, I promise. For now:

I've spent the last two weeks on an assignment for a major online social networking site. This site just launched a Yelp competitor, and my job was to do those style of reviews. I was assigned to come up with reviews for 100 different places, trying to avoid chains as often as possible.

This was a lot more fun than it should have been. First of all, I did not know how well I know LA until undertaking this. Second, I have a strange memory - it takes me a second to remember my phone number, but that restaurant where I went on that bad first date? Know it like the back of my hand. Finally, it's reminding me that it's a lot more fun to try someplace new than get stuck going to the same Subway and/or McDonald's over and over again.

This was my list. What's yours?

(NOTE: Not all of these got positive reviews. Your mileage yada yada yada.)

Saints and Sinners, Backstage, Joxer Daly, Rush Street, The Well, Bowery, Cafe 101, Santa Maria Barbeque Company, Brass Monkey, HMS Bounty, Edison, Campos Mexican, Daily Pint, King's Head, Yankee Dandy's, Hollywood Billards, Warzawa, The Loop, Nyala, Tom Bergin's, Molly Malone's, Cat and Fiddle, Red Rock, Bigfoot Lodge, Happy Endings, Broadway Bar, Pig and Whistle, Boardwalk 11, Irish Times, Ford's Filling Station, Big Wangs, Miyagi's, Kabuki's, Bird's, White Horse, Cafe Loft, Father's Office, Tin Horn Flats, Good Luck Bar, Fred 62, Liquid Kitty, Village Idiot, Foundry, The Shack, Venice-whaler, Cabo Cantina, Duke's, Swinger's (Beverly), Swinger's (Santa Monica), Q's, Tattle Tale, 25 Degrees, La Fonda, South, Royale, The Dresden, La Cabana, Gyenari, Don Antonio’s, Talpa, Bungalow Club, Blue Room, Library Alehouse, Rainbow Bar and Grill, Tito’s Tacos, Grunions, El Rey, Hotel Café, Albano's, Z Pizza, El Guapo, Bourgeois Pig, Jones Café, Formosa Café, Tropicana Bar at the Roosevelt, Scarlet Lady, Chichen Itza, Luna Park, Sorento's Italian Market, La Rocca's, Good Microbrew, Ye Rustic Inn, Cozy’s, Avalon, Vanguard, Largo, Echoplex, Arclight Cinemas, Crumbs, Roscoe’s, Cozy Inn, Bar 21, Vanilla Bake Shop, Prado, Hennessey's Tavern, Short Stop, Circle Bar, National Sports Grill, Buffalo Wings and Things, Twains.