Test of tasting: Table of Tokyo -- toast of O of high pile trés '!

yum, honey toast...

It was a mini-reunion of ex-colleagues and even though one was enceinte, I chose Tokyo Table since besides sushi, there's plenty of cooked items on the vast menu. When this place opened, I dubbed it "the Japanese Denny's" judging solely by the laminated menu full of color photos. Apparently the restaurant agreed the menu gave a Dennys-ish impression, and they're working on a more subdued presentation. The space isn't at all reminiscent of a coffee shop though -- on the bottom floor of a La Cienega office building near the new Tanzore, it's sleek and elegant enough for a business lunch or party, if a bit impersonal.
This review is going to have to go in reverse order, because it's time to get to the toast. I had never had Japanese honey toast before, and I was a little skeptical because it sounds so darn sweet, but Ramin and Chris insisted. After our mains, we chose the caramel variety, and soon a tower of extra thick brioche-style bread arrived drizzled with what tasted like Lyle's Golden Syrup. The thick pieces were deceiving, though -- they had been hollowed out with the bread cut into cubes and possibly deep-fried? I don't know what they do to it, but the stuff is insanely delicious in a very over-the-top way. You can keep your deep-fried Oreos and such, I'll stick to caramel honey toast.
Annnyway. Shaved ice with a scoop of red beans and a scoop of ice cream can be had in a pleasant green tea/lychee combo, and is a refreshing counterpoint to the honey toast orgy.
Tokyo Table's food comes from the "if it isn't usually served with mayonaise, let's add some anyway" school of Japanese food, so it's not exactly your healthful light lunch, but it's pretty tasty stuff. We started with a sushi pizza (above), which thank god doesn't involve cheese or tomatoes: rather it's a slab of sushi rice, with seaweed standing in for crust, cooked bits of seafood topping, jalapeno and what else but grilled mayo instead of cheese. Evy's unagi bowl had a lovely presentation in a giant black bowl. Ramin's stacked seafood salad looked light, but managed to squeeze in some mayo both on the side and zigzagging over the top.
Our accomodating server held up the dishes so I could get a good shot -- Japanese restaurants are used to customers taking photos. Tokyo Table is no Urusawa, but it's a fun place for groups and much more reasonably priced than most of the La Cienega tourist traps. There's also an array of fruity cocktails (not sure if they're made with soju or actual vodka) and a good sake list.
... just don't forget to try the toast.
Tokyo Table
50 N. La Cienega Blvd.
Beverly Hills
(310) 657-9500
(Also, they deliver at lunch and dinner and are open until 1 am every night)

Jitlada in the news; good day at that time

Gold Jonathan does it behind starting from Italy to test Jitlada,
pronounces it "the new Thai restaurant most enthralling of the year."
I owe section of calendar of agree.Nice today... a good glance with
beer of craftsman "at the point of Tippling," the covers one of my
preferred subjects rather completely. It really confuses how L.A. can
be up to now behind points north and south in the beer mixing of
craftsman, but the scene is slowly improving.And that we like my
weekend preferred this week, most of the time because we loved the
delicatessen of Evan so much on the "sex and the city." It is not that
its choices are so revolutionists, but just the idea to run in him to
whole foods or the cheese stock of hills of Beverly returns us to it
good feeling.
Silicium Llena Of That
Bread pudding of Oatmeals

Abigail Breslin whip the menu of $20 kids to the palm

Here a small piece which I wrote for the variety about all the slip
roads of food for film "no reservation." No fear of work children here
-- it has the thesp Abigail Breslin of kiddie appearing on Emeril next
Thursday of phase before the film opens as on a menu of the new kids
for the restaurants of palm... just $20 offers "of consultation" of
cheese or beefsteak of N for imper them '. While Thomas Keller
consulted on food for "Ratatouille," "reservation" did not obtain the
council on making cook to the top of a fictitious restaurant of New
York of the white of Michael de Fiamma.
The tacos puts Jorge coming at the westside
its face is a chart of the world is a chart of the world...