Friday night - Talia's - Manhattan Beach: we didn't have any entrees here - just four appetizers, two salads and a dessert. The dessert, the chocolate espresso souffle rocks. The salads were pretty good (beet salad and a pear walnut). The appetizers: black and white ravioli, crab cakes, calamari, and the tiger prawns. I liked all but the calamari. They were all long and overly breaded and the wasabi aiolli was too overpowering. It actually went up my nose and made me sneeze. I like it when it's light, not too greasy, not to much breading. Anyhow, if anything, go, sit at the bar and have dessert. Or have an entree and tell me how it is. I've eaten at their sister restaurant Mangiamo (shrimp fra diavolo) and their food is pretty good, so I'm assuming it won't be too much different.
Saturday night - Mi Piace - Pasadena: Calamari appetizer, Osso buco entree. Vuong had the chilean sea bass and Annie had the parpadelle (sp?). My osso buco was so good, as was the mushroom risotto it came with. (I think I had the best dish). Annie's pasta was good too. Lots of flavor. Vuong went with the chilean sea bass, probably because it had the least calories in her mind, and it did.. especially after it made her barf and have diarrhea at 3 a.m. Although, we all had a piece of it and we were fine, but I guess she had the most, so that's why she was the only one that got sick. After dinner, we tried a bar across the street, but it was too smokey for me.
Sunday night - Clay Oven - Irvine: had the chicken tikka masala, the egg plant, naan, yogurt, veggie samosas and the kulfi. All of it was excellent and the chicken was excellent again when I had it for lunch. And that kulfi... light yet tasty. Almost guilt-free dessert, if you ask me.
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