Lunch with TORC Part 1 - Tacos Perla

Looks like many of the eateries in this complex are up and running...

TC and I noticed the colorful donkey when walking by here the other day.

This time TORC and I would actually be eating here if my nefarious plan went well...

Influx Cafe, North Park

I love being on vacation because I have so much free time to explore places with TC and as well as my friends. After yesterday's excursion to North Park with TC, I returned but this time with my good friend TORC. Below, the complex called The North Parker on the corner of 30th St and Upas is pretty much completed with several restaurants still waiting to open, like Underbelly (hence the "Ramen Saves" wall)...

When TC and I passed by yesterday, I spied a couple of places that I thought TORC and I could check out...

Wow Wow Waffle

I heard through the grapevine that a new waffle place had opened on 30th Street...

Where is it you wonder?  Well, look for the laundry place first then...

Asia Cafe + Santos Coffee House

Yesterday TC and I had a lunch adventure, starting off with a tried and true fave in tha' 'hood:

Does the crisped rice and pork sausage with skin strings ring a bell?  It should because we get this dish almost every damn time we go here...

Tourtiere + bacon soda & a beer float - THE Last Canada 2012 post

It's been nearly two years since our Canada trip...

and after much procrastination, the very LAST post is now finished...

A few more food gifts...

Over the past few months, I received a few food gifts,

which of course, are the best kind of all...

Jones Coffee Roasters

So Cathy said we were right on cue. As we walked across the street, we saw a gaggle of cyclists leave the coffee shop before we viewed the Rose Parade Float Road Testing down the ways...

We would end up going to that very same coffee place after the road testing...

ROCQ macs from the Whole Foods in Hillcrest

I convinced my sis rather easily to make another short trip in the neighborhood...

Both of us are lazy pedestrians, but we trudged ourselves over to the always busy Whole Foods as the day started to heat up...

Finally...Bronx Pizza

Now that my sis had her Jack 'n Coke and I my apple fritter, we walked the few short blocks over to this place...

where I've been wanting to go forever, but was always deterred by the craptastic Hillcrest parking and the long lines. Not so for this day...

Philippe the Original

After our visit to the newly reopened Velveteria, we walked just a mere two blocks away to this Los Angeles institution on the corner of where Ord St, N. Alameda and N. Main intersect...

We saw it on our way in to Chinatown and knew we had to come here for lunch...

It's open!!! Star Dust Donuts...

Earlier today...

A lone customer at the window was all the confirmation we needed to make that hard left...