Little Big Burger + NOLA Doughnuts, Pearl District

It's funny for me posting this after almost one year...

Lucky for me, I remember details and all. During this time span, a Little Big Burger opened in Mission Valley...

Anny's Fine Burgers, Kearny Mesa

It was Veteran's weekend and we were out and about.

We had just gone to a local comic book shop and thought we'd stop at this burger place for lunch...

Jim-Denny's, Sacramento

Trying to erase the images of leeches, prosthetic eyeballs as well as the cat and pig fetus from my mind...

We made our way from the Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Museum" back to downtown...

Lunch round up - Carnival, Halphen Red, Los Pollos, Pho Convoy, Cali Baguette, the food court in Su Mercado, Sandwich Bags Deli, Gunco Ramen and Mandarin

Time to clear out the memory card before the end of the year,

featuring past lunches...

Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers

Sometime back in May, I was in the area...

remembering Mary's post about this place (linked at the end), I knew I wanted to stop by Freddy's...

Penny's Burgers

All good things come to an end. Our mini Veterans weekend road trip was spent in Highland Park...

Given the choice for several hipster breakfast spots or one that has withstood the test of time?

You already what I chose...

Shake Shack, Glendale

After our visit to Velveteria, we headed out for our late lunch...

TC wanted to check out the new Shake Shack in Glendale...

I didn't realize it was smack dab in the middle of a massive retail area...

Revisits to Beef n Bun & Mary's Donuts

It was nice to have a three day weekend...

For Labor Day, we went to visit Bert's mom out in Lakeside but first, a lunch stop...

The Spot + Carpinteria State Beach

From Camarillo to Carpinteria...

to a place I had bookmarked but hadn't planned on going to until later in our trip.  We meant to go to the beach but balked when we found out the beach parking fee was $10. The nice lady at the booth told us we could exit the lot and park along Linden Street for free...

Norm's Hamburger No. 3

In our past visits to Burbanks, we'd always pass this place...

and say, "Norm" (like in "Cheers").  Today was the day we would finally give it a try. It looks like it's been here forever (and I'm sure it has) and we were craving burgers after all that driving...

Lucky Boy

From Burbank to Pasadena...

Lunch was beckoning...

(love the font here!)

as we headed over with burgers on our mind!

Sucky noodles from Noodles + return to the Cravory, an almost coupon fail at Sunshine Smoothie & return to Boll Weevil

I think I'm done now with this place...

Noodles & Company. I totally made the same mistake twice...

Our anti-Black Friday - Return to Nate's Garden Grill

Shopping on Black Friday has never really been our thing. Instead of heading off to the mall with the rest of the angry hordes, we put up our Christmas tree and once it was up, headed off to lunch...

over in City Heights, right off Home Ave from the 805...

As you can see, not a cloud in the sky...

Another two-fer: Fuddrucker's and Nuyo with the girls plus Dolphins at night...

Sometime during the break, I took out TC and KDD once more...

Dessert would be decided by the girls, lunch by me (and agreed upon by the teens)....

Jungle Java, lunch @ Hodad's and Beach Sweets

As seen near the corner of Abbot Street and Newport in OB...

fresh from NOT seeing the tidepools but from enjoying the waves and fresh air, we headed up OB's main drag to kill some time before our early lunch...

More pitstops - Gorman & Kettleman City

While driving through the LA where we were met with craptastic traffic, I found amusement with this truck...

Heh heh, he said "nuts"....

We had quite a ways to go and unlike TC who was asleep for the majority of the drive, Bert and I took turns driving...

and listening to our various cd's and tinkering with the radio stations as we headed up our great Golden State...

Return to Station Tavern, Cardamom Cafe & Moosie's

Last weekend we had the pleasure of meeting up with the Horns in South Park...

Station Tavern was chosen due to it's dog friendly outside patio.

TC was excited to see "The Doctor" once again...

Bay Area Roadtrip - Day 1: The Red Onion

While TC watches some hokey Animal Planet show on "mermaids", I thought I would do my first post from our recent road trip...

The photo above was somewhere along the 5...while the photo below was near the 580 as we approached the Oakland area...

We were excited because we hadn't visited Thane up here since 2011...this time it was different since he was now married with a toddler son and with a house!

Before hunkering down with Thane and his family, we sought out a place for lunch in his neighborhood...

Pie 'n Burger

Day two started off with the wonderful news that "Jamzilla" was in full swing that weekend...

As "blissfully-unaware-of-L.A.-traffic-problems-San Diegans", we had no clue that was to be a major traffic snarl on the northbound-405 (near Sepulveda Pass), but luckily, nowhere near where we were going...

FILAMEDA Fundraiser at Halphen Red Burgers

It's been awhile since we went here...

even though it's very close to home, we haven't found another reason to revisit until tonight...