Pho Hoang Minh 172 Wyse Road Mon-Wed 11am-9pm; Thu-Sat 11am-10pm Sun 4pm-9pm Fifteen is a perfect number. It’s one plus two plus three plus four plus five. It’s a magic constant, a triangular number, a hexagonal number and a pentatope number. In numerology it is apparently associated with harmony. It’s a point in tennis. And […]
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Gingergrass takes a hiatus
A post shared by victorialapp (@victorialapp) on Apr 25, 2016 at 3:56pm PDT It’s been 10 years since Nira Nugroho opened Gingergrass Thai and Vietnamese at 1284 Barrington Street, but she says it doesn’t feel nearly that long ago. Tomorrow marks the restaurant’s last day at the corner of Morris and Barrington though, a move spawned […]
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Maxim value
I just got back from Los Angeles (brag) and have a newfound appreciation for strip malls. If you’ve been to LA (like I have, brag), you know it is nothing but a series of strip malls punctuated by gas stations, movie studios and Baldwin brothers. Inside those strip malls are some seriously great restaurants. On […]
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I Love Pho rules
It is cold. There is too much snow. The temperatures are low enough and the snow banks high enough that I wouldn’t be surprised to see Jake Gyllenhaal chased into the new library by a pack of wolves. Weather like this needs one thing: soup. I Love Pho is a pretty obvious destination for anybody […]