Blue Bottle Coffee - Mint Plaza, San Francisco

The amazing thing about the food in SF, is that people are conscious of what they eat, being it be local, organic or sustainable--and the Blue Bottle Coffee does all that with delighting food and extraordinary coffee! Craig and I where visiting SF, and my friend Mark had recommended this place to meet up for breakfast. Here not only is your coffee served with a beautifully frothy leaf design, but their breakfast food is scrumptious! ^ Casual counter, line up and customers! Feel free to seat yourself. ^ Watch your coffee get made. And here it comes:^ Two Cafe Lattes and the secret espresso drink on...

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Asa Ramen - Torrance, CA

Regular Kotteri with extra chashu, butter, and green onionsEvery thursday most of us have classes that run till 10pm, and as always we're STARVING. It has become a tradition to celebrate our survival of another week at Otis by going to our favorite ramen place: Asa Ramen in Torrence. They're conveniently open until 2am, so we can take our time enjoying our delicious meals.Above is a photo of their standard bowl of ramen: the Kotteri. Don't get me wrong, it's amazing! It's a shoyu base ramen which means its a soy base. Like most ramen houses, Asa has a variety of toppings/additions for your bowl. My favorites are extra chashu, butter and green...

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Cafe Surfas - Culver City, Los Angeles

Earlier in the week, my friend Tania recommended the Surfas Cafe after reading the first blog post on Afoodcionado. Despite the terrible weather, we decided to forge the rain and traffic for a pretty savory lunch. At Surfas, part cafe and part gourmet supply store, you get good vibes from the cute interior decoration, casual and surprisingly polite customers, to the wonderful aroma of grilled bread and coffee. Surfas is decently priced, for the quality of ingredients and food, the sandwiches where delicious as well as the savory drinks (which come with my favorite type of ice cubes--small cylinders of crunchiness)! ^...

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The Harwood Arms - Walham Grove, London

Coming from LA; a city blessed without weather and the access to seasonal foods year round, I have to say eating at The Harwood Arms was an amazingly refreshing, and very tasty experience.  The Harwood Arms enlightens your palette despite the accessibility of ingredients due to actual winter weather, something I had never thought would limit a typical chef or restaurant's menu here in LA. Located in Walham Grove, my boyfriend Craig and I jumped on the tube from Regent's Park where we where staying and took a 5-8 minute walk from the station through West Brompton, a quiet neighborhood to reach Harwood....

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