La La La Los Angels

Introduction of life in LA. Here is a place I will stay for a week. It's between Beverly hills and UCLA, area called Westwood.



This cafe, Clementine in Westwood will be my breakfast place and Wifi spot. They use only seasonable ingredient. Everything is very fresh and yum***


Big sandwich! This is America!


S told me, we will have fresh Mojito every night after work as aperitif. Wow, such a VIP treat.

End of summer meeting

Catch up with V and had Vietnamese coffee in Broadway market. There was live band playing .



Me, M & E had pizza for dinner together before I leave London. This was the last day of London summer 2009 for me. We celebrated how much we had fun this summer. When I come back from a trip it will be autumn here. Still my summer continue in Los Angels and Tokyo...from now on!

Baron de Lajoyosa 2000

What a pretty bottle! that I thought when I found this wine in Spain. This is Baron de lajoyasa 2000 Gran Reserva. I accidentally opened this as third bottle of wine yesterday just for me and M. This should be first one if we open it but I was so happy. Sometime we just need to enjoy it! It was so delicious!! Nice time, Nice wine.

What you see?

So many things going on this couple of weeks. Still it is true, we sometime need to stop and look around to see what going on.


Flower in my kitchen at this moment; It's from Hockney Wick. I stopped and found them!

Summer Sky

My suitcase

My suitcase was full of food, precisely it was only food in that. I imported 15Kg of Spanish food!

Last lunch

Time to say byebye to Madrid. Last lunch with N. Starting with Cava


Cheese cheese cheese


Left; Roast Veg salad
Middle; Manchego cheese, Rosemary cheese, wine sorked cheese
Right; Tomato Salad


I will miss this kitchen.


Flavorful Gelato; Mango, Strawberry, Chocolate


Last a grass of wine at airport.

Toast shop

Me and N found this pretty old toast shop near Rastro Market on Sunday morning. (It is on Calle de carlas)


They have nearly ten different toasts and the shop is packed with people.


This is my choice; Spicy octopas toast with beer! Yummy.

I would like to try those two restaurants next time.

1. Very romantic place.


2. Funky Mexican.

JUANALALOCA

Probably JUANALALOCA(Plaza Puerta de Moros 4, 28005 Madrid/phone +34 91 364 0525) is one of the best place in Madrid for pintxos inspired by the Basque region. Fusion style, quite sophisticated, unusual and gorgeous. Maybe more expensive than other places but it really worth it. Place is always crowded with food lovers. They are delightful.


salmon with dill, melts in your mouth!




tortilla de patatas(Spanish omelet); it's made with caramelized onions and is sweeter and juicier than the ones you might find elsewhere). Very special!

Crazy fridge produce amazing meal!

Me and N were invited to dinner at friends place. We start drink with this special wine.


Vintage Cava!


Very Spanish. Beans with Jamon soup.


Delicious food was made from this crazy fridge! A lot of words from all his friends. I wrote message in Japanese too.


N wanted to have same tattoo. It means "Tomorrow will be good day too"

Siesta

Madrid locate at center of Spain. It is very hot and humid here. During my stay, it was over 36 degree every day. Daytime is difficult to be outside really. So the town became empty this time and everyone having siesta.



Dog also need to have siesta even evening, so hot!

MERCADO DE SAN MIGUEL

This is new market spot in Madrid. (http://www.mercadodesanmiguel.es) There are many fine food stands inside of this arcade. Seafood, Vegetable, meet, sweet and cocktail etc. They open until 2am for weekday and 12 for weekend.


Oysters! Me and N are big fun of oyster. How we could manage not to eat them?


There were no space to eat in oyster stand because it's so popular but We found little corner. We set our feast there. As soon as we set our oysters, bartender from cocktail bar told us that wall will open sometime... We needed to move again... Long way to Champagne and oysters.


The bartender was very nice to offer us seats even we having drink from different shop. More over he gave us sweet too. How sweet*


After champagne, we had a cocktail in this cocktail bar, of course.


Looks magical, berry pot.


Baby chocolate also smiling.