Archive for November 2012

7 Reasons to Hate L.A. Lunching: The Crispy Meats Edition

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…

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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?

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