Midtown Lunch

I try to be positive here on Midtown Lunch… and I freakin’ love this city.  The food is amazing, and there’s no better place to be a “Midtown Lunch’er”.    But as much as I love much of the food in L.A. (and will defend it to the death against any outsiders, ornatives with an inferiority complex) there are some things about lunching in this town that really annoy me.  Here are 7 of them, LAist style, for your enjoyment…

Chinese Chicken Salad, topped w/ “Rotisserie Chicken”

1. If you remove the skin, can you still call something rotisserie chicken on your menu? I say, definitively no. I mean, what’s next? Icing-less birthday cake?  You know what, forget I said that Los Angeles.

2. For some reason Bottega Louie decided not make pumpkin macarons this fall.  First monkey bread, now this.  Is there some unwritten rule at BL to get rid of everybody’s favorite pastries?

3. The fresh baked laffa at Joe’s Falafel (that we heralded as the greatest thing of all time, back in May) is now whole wheat. Seriously, is there no refuge in L.A. for us carb loving fatsos who don’t care about eating whole grains?  Does it still taste good? Sure it does!  But that’s not the point, now is it.

4. I love you Seoul Sausage (more than I care to admit), but you have been out of galbi poutine every time I have visited. And I’m not the only one. If your menu says you have french fries smothered in braised Korean short ribs, I should be able to order french fries smothered in braised Korean short ribs. I don’t know… maybe it’s me. You know what.  No.  It’s definitely you.  MAKE. THIS. HAPPEN.  #fatwhiteguyproblems

5. I know I shouldn’t be surprised or angry that a ramen shop in Silver Lake offers to put slices of chicken in your ramen instead of pork belly… and yet, here we are.

6. When I moved back to L.A. a few years ago I was pretty bummed to discover that Yuca’s had taken over Casa Diaz, home to my favorite burrito on the westside (their ginormous chicken mole burrito.) Well, last month I was pretty excited to discover that Yuca’s on Sunset actually kept the chicken mole burrito on the menu.  Too bad it’s a flat, pitiful shell of its formal self.  (And before you ask…that’s not an iPhone 5.)

7. Henceforth all Thai restaurants will serve their papaya salads topped with hunks of crispy pork.  The penalty for not complying will be a swift and sharp increase in business for Crispy Pork & Gang.  Thanks you, that is all.

Got anything lunch related you’d like to gripe about? Feel free to post it in the comments… And click here to see all past lists of “Reasons to Hate L.A.”