Dunedin

My good friend MFH celebrated her birthday earlier this month...

Due to our schedules, we weren't able to meet up until recently...

when I took her to the year old Dunedin, a New Zealand themed eatery in North Park...

10 Speed Coffee, Calabasas

We'd never been to Calabasas before...

TC knows it as the "substitute swear word" my late Ninang Edith used to say...

Wow Wow Waffle almost 3 years later

When I was out with MFH last weekend, we parked across from this...

our eventual dessert destination. It had been a few years since I'd been here...

Summer Road Trip - En route to Carpinteria

Finally...the start of our Carpinteria posts...

(strip mall with Starbucks and El Toro taco shop at the Red Hill Exit, Tustin)

which happened in late June but am just posting about now...

The former K-Pasta is now the Little Red Cafe

[Update: Sadly, Little Red Cafe closed as of early October 2017]

A few months have passed since K-Pasta closed down...

However, the same owners have replaced it with a different concept, the Little Red Cafe...

"C02 Kills Mermaids" mural, North Park

Right after our brunch at Dunedin, MFH and I headed down 30th...

and I remembered this mural next to the Jack in the Box...

Torque Moto Cafe

A few days ago, MFH and I enjoyed our brunch at Dunedin (posted on 9/24 and linked here)...

followed by coffee at another Craftsman home conversion...

Like our brunch spot, Torque just turned or will about to turn one...

Tropical Star Revisit

Last night TC was enjoying homecoming...

After dropping her off, it was time to do a revisit to Tropical Star!

Havana Grill

It's finally Fall Break (yeehaw!)...

TC's school had their homecoming game that evening so we had date night...

Rolling Out Cafe

Farther east up Taraval was another bakery,

which actually had a San Diego connection...

Sweet Passion Bakery

Right next door to Andytown #3 was a bakery I had my eye on from a previous trip,

but we didn't have the chance to visit until this day...