I can’t wait until Claire’s got a website! In the meantime, you can find her on Abbott-Kinney at Elvino making wine accessible and interesting and generally having good taste. I’m looking forward to going over there to swirl and taste. And savor, I guess, but that seems less likely. Savoring seems to require patience.

Let me just say that I know more than my fair share of people whose ages are in the single digits who are nonetheless more fluent than me in succulents, natives, and botany of southern California. But for sheer brainpower Ilsa & her son Mateo take the cake.

In case you were wondering…

…it IS possible to eat too much pork there.

the famous ramen

All of this can be yours, if you order the whole menu

This was our Waterloo.