The other day, we stopped at Izenberg’s again for lunch. Don’t ask what R got. You know – nova lox and bagels. But this time, I did try it. She made me a tiny little mini lox and bagel sandwich. I liked it! I didn’t expect not to or anything. It was very light. Not necessarily what I expected. No extremely strong flavors or anything. Quite pleasant.

As for me, I got an egg salad sandwich. Seemingly benign, but damn, this was good ass egg salad. Huge chunks of egg, and lots of it. It was so big that I ate only half and then had the rest for dinner. After having those amazing sweet potato fries at Good Dog the other day, I also decided to get a side of sweet potato fries. Bad idea. These weren’t sweet at all. In fact, they were like plain potatoes that they had dyed orange. Quite a disappointment. But that’s ok, my sandwich was still yummy. The service? Meh. Nothing to rave about.

Thursday night was my last meal in LA… then I was heading on home to good ol Philly. To laze the early evening away, we headed down to the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica for a bit of the old beach time. After walking around a bit to all the shops and such, we stopped for some eats at Cafe Crepe. The place is pretty cute, inside and out, and very euro.

S went with the thincrust pizza with eggplant and squash. It was pretty good… seemingly healthy. The veggies had a bit of a smoky flavor to it.

Mmmm… a giant side of $2 fries. Simple, hot, salty. Pretty good stuff.

I went with a savoury crepe – ham and cheese, nothing complicated here. It was good. Nothing too thrilling, but perfectly acceptable. It was quite a lot of food, even though it doesn’t necessarily seem like it.

The service? Eh… not too hot. We sat there for an extremely long time before anyone came over and gave us a menu or asked what we wanted to drink. And the food took even longer. Everyone else was getting their food except for us. And the servers aren’t exactly the nicest. They’re a bit loud and rude, but honestly, I don’t know that they don’t realize that that shouldn’t be the norm. I think they need a bit of a lesson in customer service. I bet the sweet crepes were good, but we just didn’t have room.

Cafe Crepe
1460 3rd Street Promenade
Santa Monica, CA 90401
(310) 576-0499

We drove down to Ocean City Maryland on Monday for the afternoon. I went there for senior week when I was in high school. Ah… I tear up just thinking about that week. Hahaha…. It was a beautifully warm and sunny day.

When on the boardwalk, what else can you do but get boardwalk fries? So I treated myself to some Thrasher’s french fries. You know ‘em. They’re piping hot, you douse em with apple cider vinegar, and then you masticate. Mmmmm, vinegary burning potatoes. So delicious. I washed it all down with a traditional orange julius. Alright, so it’s not beachy or anything to do with the shore, but heck, I still like me some orange julius.