Today I did the most millennial thing possible. We drove for an hour then waited in line for an hour just to eat the best toast in LA. Sqirl in LA is known for it's amazing breakfast/brunch dishes. The owner Jessica Koslow is a bit of a celebrity and has been featured in tons of cooking shows, magazines and rave reviews. Sqirl is packed from open to close every day because its jams and toasts are just that good and it does the whole seasonal + sustainable + farm to table thing.
I needed to make sure that this place lives up to the hype ;) This place is seriously hipster chic. 90% of the people here look like models. The irony is that the rest of the neighborhood is extremely impoverished and there are homeless people and potholes all around.
Anyways, on to the food. We actually went a really great time since Jessica was assembling the food herself! I was slightly starstruck for a moment.
Here's what we got: French toast, almond butter and cacao nib butter toast with a latte, sorrel pesto rice bowl, and house made granola with house made yogurt and boysenberry jam. The brioche toasts were AMAZING. There's nothing more heavenly than burnt brioche. Everything else was also extremely satisfying.
All in all, 10/10 would wait again for over-priced hipster Californian food. Now I need to go buy her cookbook :P By the way, check out how this awesome food is made:
Growing up as a kid, I LOVED Legos. Getting the opportunity to go to Legoland since it’s relatively close to campus was one of the highlights of my time here so far. Fast Forward to 2022 in the waning days of the school year, Page had their annual Beach Trip to a house in Carlsbad, California. At this point in time, I wanted to go to the beach, but I wasn’t really excited for it. I wanted to chance to have some fun and be away from campus with my housemates for a while. That’s why when I was offered a chance at Page House Beach Trip to find myself in the middle of Legoland, of course I wanted to go! Below, I compiled some thoughts to give everyone the best look at Legoland, California.
We’ve all heard that the stomach is the fastest way to someone’s heart^. I never fully understood this until I got to college. While Caltech Dining Services (CDS) does its best to diversify the lunch and dinner menus, sometimes nothing can quite fulfill the craving for your mom’s home cooking. Having grown up in between Venezuela and Texas, home cooking for me looks like arepas, tacos, and brisket (among other things). Thankfully, Caltech’s location, just outside vibrant LA, makes attempts to find close seconds (to my mom’s cooking) easy and exciting. Often, I don’t even have to venture more than a mile or two from campus to find reliable favorites. Here are just a few within walking distance:
