Huckleberry Bakery & Café

Huckleberry Café is a well deserved famous restaurant in Santa Monica and one of my favorite breakfast / brunch / lunch spots. It is quite well known for its delicious pastries, salads and cooked breakfasts and therefore always pretty crowded on the weekends, but during the week you are likely to get a table.Be sure…

Brentwood Farmers’ Market

Brentwood Farmers’ Market is a great place to spend your Sunday morning and have breakfast and coffee. It is located just south of San Vicente Boulevard and offers a great variety of products: seasonal fruit and veggies, beautiful fresh flowers, baked goods from Röckenwagner (a German bakery), local honey, freshly made pasta and many more!…

ROC Kitchen

ROC Kitchen is a Chinese restaurant in West Los Angeles and one of my favorite Asian restaurants in the L.A. area.Their menu offers a great variety of vegetarian options and they serve the best dumplings I have ever had (steamed vegetable dumplings).Also their scallion pancakes and string beans are to die for. Make sure to…

Sweet Fin Poke

  During my trip to California this summer I discovered a super cool restaurant I want to talk about: Sweet Fin Poke* is a Hawaiian, very trendy restaurant which makes poke bowls, vegetable or raw fish bowls on a salad, kelp noodle or rice base. You can either choose a Signature Bowl or create a…