A Cozy Little Nook in Santa Monica

Don't let the cruddy strip mall setting prevent you from trying the amazing Los Angeles restaurant, Nook, on Santa Monica, between Barry and Federal. This American bistro is open for lunch and dinner and has the best chocolate banana bread pudding ever! For lunch, I recommend the catfish burrito with lemon aioli ($10) - yum! (Def get it charred catfish.) If you mosey over for dinner at this Los Angeles restaurant, get the Shiitake & Gruyere Bread Pudding ($7) and the maple glazed mustard rib-eye ($26) - you won't regret it. I love Americana food that is glammed up and this is for sure one of the best places to go for that kind of food. The intimate atmosphere at this sleek, modern Los Angeles restaurant bowls me over everytime I go, so check it out!

Spring is Here - Let's Celebrate

Vivian's Millennium Cafe is really everything you can ask for in a Los Angeles restaurant. It's clean, well-lit, intimate. The food at this Los Angeles restaurant is incredibly fresh and well-prepared and the banana pancakes are perfection. The bananas are thinly sliced and the pancakes are fluffy and delicious. This Los Angeles restaurant is located on Ventrua Blvd. in Studio City and it's sort of a blink-and-you'll-miss-it brunch place for the locals. At SocialBuy.com, you can purchase a voucher for $5 for $10 worth of food and drinks. Pretty legit deal. I wish I could just peace from work now, go to Vivian's and gorge on fresh food and the enjoy the beautiful day. Instead, I'll just hope that you do it.

Real Food? What's that?

Even though it seems like there is a vegetarian/vegan craze going on right now, it’s still pretty hard to find a Los Angeles restaurant that serves good vegan food. Real Food Daily is located on La Cienega in West Hollywood. The best part of this Los Angeles restaurant is that you don’t feel like you’re missing out on meat. The two things I tried were the peanut butter cookies, which were basically heaven in a bite, and the Supreme Burrito which has Spanish rice, beans, avocado, cashew cheese, onions and pepper, and Ranchero sauce. It also has tempeh bacon, which is the best thing I have ever had in my life. It tastes like pig bacon, crunchy and salty and delicious. Totally bacon without the pig. This is a wonderful and affordable Los Angeles restaurant for vegan food so check it out.

Craving Crawfish Po Boys? I am

The Bayou Grille in Crenshaw is hands down the best Los Angeles restaurant for my favorite Creole food, like Po Boys and Sweet Potato Fries. If you don't know what a Po Boy is, it is a sub sandwich stuffed with fried meat or seafood, like shrimp or crawfish. A dressed Po Boy has lettuce, mustard, tomatoes, and can be spicy or regular. Also at this Los Angeles restaurant, you have to try the Jambalaya and the etoufee. On a brisk day like this, how could you not crave a deliciously wonderful Po Boy. I kind of want to leave work early and go back to this Los Angeles restaurant.

A Beautiful Way to Start or End the Week

So my new fave Los Angeles restaurant is East in Hollywood, this Japanese French fusion lounge. OMG. Freakin' amazing. It's super-posh and you have to order the Blush Martini, the Dinosaur egg (which is an avocado shell stuffed with tuna with unagi and siracha and Hamachi with the spicy orange soy lime sauce nad green papaya). YOU HAVE TO GET THIS. GO NOW AND ORDER IT. I think I died and went to heaven it was so good. So with this Los Angeles restaurant, there is this deal with SocialBuy.com where you can get $15 worth of drinks for only $7, which is pretty legit. Also, SocialBuy is also hosting an event at this Los Angeles restaurant next Tuesday, March 9 from 5-8, a SociaLite for cool peeps. I'm definitely going to check it out, so you should check it out too!

Like I've said before, finding deals in Los Angeles is super-easy, and sometimes they take the form of the Los Angeles restaurant. Grub, a Los Angeles restaurant in Hollywood, doesn't have a special or anything like that going on, but it's my go-to for a delicious brunch. This Los Angeles restaurant serves the most amazing French Toast of my life - it's made with a cinnamon vanilla batter and is served with raspberry butter and fresh fruit. I'm literally salivating over my computer. Also, the place is just too cute - they give you dry cereal to munch on before your food comes and they have this sweet little patio outside that gives off a picnic-esque feel. If you're craving a legit brunch, check out this Los Angeles restaurant.

Loco for Boba Loca

You know how I love profiling cafes on my Los Angeles restaurant blog; I mean cafes are restaurants too! And my cafe of choice this week is Boba Loca in Westwood. It's pretty legit for a couple of reasons: A) Cute male workers. B) Way too many slush, frappe and boba combos to even dream of. C) Yummy vegan cookies. D) Free Wi-Fi. All this things equal an enlightening study session, not to mention that you can almost always find a spot to sit. I mean, if you really get hungry, you can wander around the corner to another "real" Los Angeles restaurant, but Boba Loca is the place to hit up for an iced tea and a vanilla almond biscotti. Plus, the ambiance can't be matched by any old Los Angeles restaurant. It has an antique house kind of feel and the music the cute male workers have playing is equally cute and quirky. Go now!