It's a Me: Squid Ink Pasta!

First there was Mario's, and now there's Luigi's. There's actually a Yoshi's I've been to before too - and apparently there is a place called Bowser's out there, but I couldn't find a Princess Peach or Toadstool restaurant out there, which was kind of disappointing

But anyways, Luigi's has this:

BLACK PASTA!! aka pasta flavored with squid ink which makes it turn black.

It didn't really taste much different to me than regular pasta - just the color was different. Maybe if I had a side by side comparison of the black pasta and regular pasta I might have noticed a different taste. But in general it was really great - and the calamari was perfectly cooked too!

The food in general was really good at Luigi's....don't be fooled by this picture

This patron (who will remain unnamed, because I don't know how she feels about her food-capades being broadcasted to my uhh 5 readers) wasn't trying to mask the taste of her food with a mountain of cheese, she just really likes cheese

~emy

Reflection of Roy's in San Diego

So we had a big family dinner at Roy's in San Diego, which is one of the many Roy's Hawaiian Fusion restuarants owned by of course Roy Yamaguchi - who was on the first season of Top Chef Masters. Upon getting there we actually had to sit at 2 different tables, because apparently they could not seat more than 10 people at a table due to the fire code. So of course I end up at the "kids" table with my cousins. I used "kids" because the age range for the 7 of us goes from 6 to 30. Maybe we should have called it the grand kids table, because most of us are technically adults.

So because there were so many of us, and it was a special event, we got a special menu:



I didn't get pictures of all the food, but the dim sum appetizers came in a long canoe shaped dishes and my 2 little cousins (6&9 yrs old) pretty much devoured the platter on their side, and then ate the stuff left over from ours. I really don't know where it all goes, they must have hollow legs. Here's the food I did snap pictures of, although they are a little blurry because the flash actually made them come out worse:


Boiled Edamame with some kind of spicy salt


Butterfish - literally melted in your mouth like butter


Dessert: Chocolate ganache and toasted macadamia covered chocolate cake and truffle, coconut biscuit type thing and nut/fruit pie a la mode

It was a really great meal, I would recommend going to a Roy's if you're out west, where most of his restaurants are. I thought there was one in NYC, but I didn't see it listed on the website. Any recommendation, on where to try next?

~emy