wine tasting on the hollyhock lawn in hollywood.headed to the friday night wine tasting hosted by silver lake wine at the barnsdall art park again this weekend with mike, dan and rob. despite it having rained earlier that morning, the sun was out and it was actually quite nice. this time they feature four argentinian wines - one white (pinot grigio), three reds (tempranillo-malbec, malbec, cabernet). stangely, even though i tend to prefer tempranillos and malbecs, i actually wasn't too big a fan this time, and enjoyed the pinot grigio and cab much more.
afterwards, we headed to downtown to grab some much-craved wurstkuche sausages. it was considerably later than we've been accustomed to going so the line was out the door, but the sausages were delightful as always. i stuck to my favorites (mango jalepeno, rattlesnake & rabbit) and tried a new delicous belgian beer called kwak but they sadly didn't have the special glasses that they're supposed to come in on hand - next time!
went for our weekly long (4mile) run on saturday morning and grabbed brunch over in brentwood at new york bagel. then we went to a sprint store so i could get my grubby hands on a palm pre. sadly they were sold out and the rumors of restock run from as early as next week to as late as july. grrr! at least i got to play with one a bit in the store - it is fantastic and i absolutely adore it.
for dinner, dan made (and introduced me to) halupki casserole. we opened up the bottle of lasorda classico chianti (yes, that would be tommy lasorda, the dodger legend.. and yes, we bought the bottle because i'm a silly dodgers fan and thought it would be interesting to at least try and YES it was surprisingly good!) and watched terminator 2 : judgement day. now we just have to make sure we watch the third one before terminator salvation isn't in theatres anymore.
dan ran the brentwood 5K on sunday morning. conveniently, the finish line was right next to tavern, which has a bakery called the larder that was open so i stopped in for a small latte and a croissant. the small coffee is an actual small (not a starbucks small 'tall', but actually small, which i can see some people not liking, but i prefer it since i can never finish) and really really good. but the most mind blowing thing was the croissant, which are made in-house. i'm kind of a croissant snob, and try the croissant at every breakfast/bakery i go to (at least once) and i'm usually pretty disappointed and kind of wasn't sure why i even still liked croissants anymore. i will definitely be going back often just to get my croissant fix here because they are so so so soooo freaking good, exactly what a croissant should be i think. flaky with a slight crunch on the outside, soft, light and buttery without being too air-y or bread-y.
later we lunched at king's road cafe with ben and andrew, did some shopping at crate&barrel (two orange pillows and glass pitcher), and went foodshopping for dinner. we ended up making grilled salmon and crispy garlic rosemary potatoes, paired with they encylopedia riesling. a lame end to a lame post, but *shrug*
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