Angela's review of Cici's Cafe got me thinking about good comfort food. It seems out of character for me to recommend a trendy joint on The Sunset Strip - especially when on the subject of comfort food - but for some reason I'm going to. The set up goes like this: Somehow Hitomi and I found ourselves walking down the Sunset Strip on a Friday night at about 9pm looking for food (Don't try this yourself). All the usual restaurants were full (who knows why) but "Cravings" looked like they had a seat in the back. so we took it.
Cravings is a pretty appropriate name for a shishi comfort food joint, and the atmosphere is pretty unique and relatively comfortable. the concept: put a bunch of tables outside, then decorate the outside as if it were the inside and put a tent roof over it all so it kind of is inside - but not quite. It's a lot like camping with rich people... on Sunset Boulevard.
Anyway, they have a lot of warm food: Like chicken noodle soup and chicken pot pie. Crab ravioli, chicken curry, chicken Parmigiana, trout, seafood stew, lamb chops... they even have hamburgers and a ham and cheese omelet. (I didn't just remember all this, I checked their website) I ate the curry, because I can't pass up curry. It was really good. The pine nuts and raisins gave the otherwise warm, rich, curry flavor a little additional sharpness and texture. the chicken was cooked perfectly, juicy and tender. Hitomi had the Chicken pot pie, which was also very nice. The gravy was rich and well spiced and the pastry on top was flakey. I kept stealing bites of her pot pie, as she looked at me with that "why didn't you just order it yourself" look.
And that's it. that's all we had. Next time we're on the strip we'll definitely go back. (As if we'll ever be on the strip again... maybe we'd even consider making a special trip... no, I doubt it.)Anyway for good comfort food - Cravings, 8653 West Sunset Blvd. (Price was about 20 -30 bucks a head before drinks)
I was gonna put pictures, but they don't have any on their website.
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3 comments:
Um, I think its spelled "chi chi" - LOL!!! Just picking on you.
Thanks for the review! Love this blog!
Well, yes, it should be chichi, but that's just not a very good way to spell it. So I'm working on changing it to shishi - one blog at a time.
Ah, I didn't know you had an agenda there!
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