Chris Barrus – Page 92

French Laundry reservations update

VanEats has some updated information on how to best get a table at the French Laundry. The best suggestion: show up in person at the restaurant at 9:30a.m. or sooner exactly two months before you want to eat there.

Still too hot out

It’s really too hot out to write much of anything at the moment, so here are some sunset pictures from the drive home. iPod random play decided that I needed to hear Ride’s “Leave Them All Behind” and it fit rather perfectly.

Too hot to exist

Well over 90 degrees in Long Beach today with no ocean breeze at all. About all I could do it lay under the air conditioner and wait. Sunset looked like this:

Review of Bobby Flay’s Bolo

I hate Bobby Flay. I hate his TV show. I hate the way he makes fun of his co-hosts. I hate how he dumps a pound of ancho chili pepper on things. Which is why this review of his new restaurant is outstanding.

Meanwhile, the lamb tenderloin consists of four nickel-sized pieces, none of which seems to bear the haziest connection to the late animal for which it is named. Artichoke heart with quail eggs and salmon caviar is, alas, a glutinous mess. Suggestion for the full appetizer of grilled octopus: more chillin’ and less grillin’. It is badly overcooked. And saying that the shrimp with white bean vinaigrette tastes like cardboard would be an insult to cardboard everywhere.

UC Irvine Utility Tunnel tour

So after nearly twenty years of being around UC Irvine as either a student or staff member, I finally got to check out the utility tunnels underneath the campus. Yes I took pictures.

SpaceShip One in flight

Boing Boing points out this amazing photo of Rutan’s SpaceShip One X-Prize contender in flight.

I finally feel like I’m living in the future. I still can’t get over how much this thing looks like something out of The Thunderbirds. Large version of picture here.

Bourdain in Spain

Anthony Bourdain in Spain. A world of ham!

San Clemente Stepford Wives

While scanning photos over the past couple of days I ran across this article I clipped out of the Orange County Register. It’s from 1994, but it’s just as applicable now even nine years later.

Careful reading as it may induce vomiting.