I have another restaurant review up at la.foodblogging. For my latest outing, I went to Cedar House Cafe in Valley Village to try out some Lebanese food.
We started off our second-to-last day in the Cinque Terre by taking the train to Vernazza for breakfast: There was supposed to be a market that day, but since the weather was threatening, there were only a few meager stalls, mostly selling non-food items. We had our breakfast and walked around the village a bit. Vernazza used to have a river flowing all the way through it, but now the river has been shunted underground at a certain point. If you walk to the top of town you can see it, along with some ducks and geese that hang out there to get fed by whoever comes along. J. and I then went to sit and have an espresso and wait for the train to Corniglia, the only town we hadn't yet visited. Corniglia is home to the local nude beach (which we skipped) and is the highest of the towns, elevation-wise. We had to walk up a buttload of steps to get there. Look at me go: That's actually me going down (a lot faster than I came up), but I did come up them as well. There is a bus that ta...
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Nice one! I love little places like that. In Orange County, everything is spread out, so distance limits my lunch options.
I'm stuck there with you on skipping lunch, though. I actually hauled my old college mini-fridge and microwave to my office so I could get something to eat without interrupting my work.
- Chubbypanda