Friday, December 01, 2006

Deck the Hills, etc






Early start for our Grand Tour of LA, a bus ride around all the sites of the City with lots of stops to hop off and take photos. Let's face it, even if you've never been to LA, you know what these are so we'll just stick some snaps up instead of the usual blurb. Lunch stop was at the Farmer's Market, you could describe it as a food court I guess but Iain's Indonesian Chicken Rendang and Andie's Drunken Cajun Prawns aren't standard fare at the St Enoch! Iain notes for the record that he feels quite at home with the "charm" of the LA locals.

Tonight we managed to get a table at Spago, the flagship restaurant of Californian celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck (think Gordon Ramsay though not quite such a c***). Ironic that we actually thought we'd lay off the rich food for a while in LA; Andie started with smoked sturgeon topped with caviar and ended with all sorts of odd stinky cheese washed down with a glass of Moet dessert champagne. Then some just baked cookies on the house. The food and wine in between were tops as well. Only downside was that our hotel bar had shut (early) when we got back. We hadn't finished.