LA: Wrapping up this Wrap Up

Tuesday. I had a flight back to New York at 5, so actually that means I had a lot of LA time. Not enough, of course. But some.

Started off by meeting up with Chateau, Jane and Carol for breakfast at Sqirl, another hot Los Angeles restaurant I have no place calling hot. It's a breakfast place that also serves lunch. Lots of things that seem healthy, lots of grain words and fruit words on that menu.

This is the coin toss where I made my (legal) u turn to get from the freeway to the restaurant.

Line on the outside

When did it start to win me over? When I got a load of the Eagle Scout list-style plaque of employees.

Line on the inside

A glimpse of the menu over there. And people trust people that they'll be done eating by the time they've ordered and there will be seats available for them, Cafe Rio style.

That woman right there is Jessica Koslow, the chef mastermind behind Sqirl.

And here's what you probably clicked over to see: Jane and Chateau, living that LA life. So great to see them, man and wife style.

This is what I had. The "Kokuho Rose Brown Rice Bowl" of rice and pesto with feta and a poached egg (and some other stuff, like hot sauce that I just had to trust was in there).

Kokuho Rose Brown Rice Bowl

Sorrel Pesto (nut free), Preserved Meyer Lemon, Lacto Fermented Hot Sauce, Black Radish, French Sheep Feta, Poached Egg

Popular Order: Toast with ricotta and jam

Good art there like the good art at Night + Market. But where do you get frames like this? I want frames like this.

I was back to Grandma's in time for lunch. We sat with Becky and Greg, talking about where to get that lunch and they sold me on a place called Lupita's that sounded good. When we got there I was like "Ohhh...Lupita's, I've been here." It's a good place! And for now on I won't forget what its name is.

Grandma's Inside Scoop: The taquitos are no good, but the flautas are good.

Then Becky drove off in the Jeep to ace a job interview and Greg drove me down to the airport with Grandma.

Thanks for having me, Grandma! Hope to be back soon!

At the airport I did that thing where you're really early for your flight but then you almost miss your flight because they change your gate while you're just patiently waiting for you flight and you don't know, because you got there before they changed the gate.

But no biggie, I got on that plane and flew on back to New York. On the flight I was able to take care of business I hadn't been able to attend to during my California time.