The Foundry on Melrose

Welcome to Foodie Friday! This is where I post weekly blogs on my obsession with food. These blogs are usually photos of food I’ve eaten at cool places, recipes that I love, and interviews with foodie bloggers, chefs, and authors. Please note: I am NOT a trained food critic or chef. I just love to eat. And I’m obsessed with The Food Network and The Cooking Channel. I’m basically a Foodie Groupie. Hence why I decided to post every Friday about food.

A quick announcement: I’ve got interviewed lined up soon with two famous food journalists/cookbook authors – ROBIN MATHER (“The Feast Nearby”/Ten Speed Press ’11) on Friday July 29th and DOMENICA MARCHETTI (“The Glorious Past of Italy”/Chronicle ’11) on Friday August 12th. Please stay tuned and mark your calendars!

Today is another installment of “ARE YOO HUNGRY?” This features self-indulgent photos of yummy food that I ate recently. This week, I had dinner with some friends visiting from out of town. They are super cool original punk rockers from the LA early ’80s scene and worked in the record industry as well as managed cool bands like Thin White Rope and The Poster Children. They are also hardcore foodies. One friend, Michael L. Compton, also has a great blog where he posts these great essays on his culinary adventures: http://theorderoftheomnivores.blogspot.com/ (Stay tuned, his blog will be up and running on a more regular basis as he settles into his new home of Las Vegas).

We met for dinner at the amazing THE FOUNDRY ON MELROSE. This is the new restaurant from chef ERIC GREENSPAN, who made his reputation as Executive Chef at Patina and the opening chef at Meson G. I loved Eric when he appeared on The Food Network’s “Next Iron Chef.” For more info on the restaurant, go here: http://www.thefoundryonmelrose.com/

(Keep reading after the jump for all the yummy food pictures! I apologize for the quality, they were all taken on my iPhone without a flash.)

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