graffiato in DC.

i'm so behind on posts! so forgive me, i may start posting more pictures and less words.. we took a trip to washington DC during the last weekend of march. i'll explain why in a later post, but one of the places we went to eat was graffiato, which served conceptual italian small plates in DC's chinatown. the food was absolutely amazing. i won't say more, but i did manage to bring my camera for this one and get photos of everything we ate.

celebrating atwater at canele.

so, we bought a house! and in atwater village - one of our favorite LA neighborhoods. well, technically, we're atwater adjacent, but minor details aren't important here! to celebrate after officially moving in, we went to dinner at a gem in the 'hood, canele. this was my third time there, but james's first. and we brought the bottle of veuve cliquot our real estate agents gave us when we closed on the house.

biscuit-y brunch at the parish.

we had the croods friends and family screening downtown a few weeks ago and we invited our friends monica and peter to come with. if you haven't seen it yet, do! it's come a long way from when i saw it last and it was really great and even had me kind of silently bawling behind my 3D glasses towards the end. anyway, monica lives in downtown and knows it well, so after the screening she walked us over to the parish for brunch. it's a pretty limited menu, really just biscuit sandwiches, but boy are those biscuit sandwiches delicious.

dinah's chicken is freaking awesome.

we went to dinah's chicken on sort of a whim late one night when i was too lazy to cook. we'd driven past it many, many times and were always curious, but really didn't know anything about it. we are so glad we did, because the food is amazing there. very much southern comfort food. in fact, the only thing they didn't have that would have made james basically cry with happiness was sweet tea.