u/turbid44

From a pure espresso standpoint, who’s best?

What are they?

Anyone make any amazing vegetarian cold noodles?

I used to have so many problems with the phone getting incredibly sluggish when I was using it with CarPlay on iOS 26. All gone now. Thank God.

Just jonesing for a more cherry slushie type drink but in healthy smoothie form…

Any good articles/book-length case studies of patients who acceded to parental expectations all too well and performed at high levels, ending up in conventionally successful yet profoundly unhappy and inauthentic situations -- and how analytic therapy helped them out of this?

I really loved the first two Thursday Murder Club books narrated by Leslie Manville. Her voice and diction just had this incredibly satisfying, almost ASMR-like delicacy and intricacy to it...

Who else would fit the bill for this sort of narration, where you would listen to it just for their voice?

Any particularly great options?

I just went to a restaurant which didn't accept credit cards, only cash and venmo... one of the employees later told me that the owner kept all the tips sent by venmo.

Would it do anything to report this sort of thing, and if so, to whom?

Any places do super delicious versions?

What’s the best slice place for lunch in the area?

So I recently had a cortado at Solid State Coffee in the Upper West Side, and I just loved it. Even without any sugar added, it just had an incredibly balanced, satisfying taste. I just got a lot of pleasure out of drinking it.

And if I'm really honest with myself, I would say that the vast majority of other highly-rated coffee shops in New York do not give me that feeling. Without sugar added to their cortados, I don't get much pleasure. And that got me to wondering, like, what exactly is it that Solid State is doing different?

They roast their own coffee, I know, as do many others. What are they doing that’s different with their roast?

What other coffee shops would have similar tasting espresso?

(Like not made with some hidden chicken broth or something?)

I'm open to anything, just looking for what you've loved recently...

I've been away from the city for a while, but before that was pretty up-to-date on the best places. What's opened up in the last eight months or so that's been amazing across any culinary category?

I'm looking either for a closed MRI or a high-powered (more than 0.5 power) open MRI. Does anyone have any recommendations for the cheapest cash options for these in LA?

It’s hard to have even one great dinner — but much harder to be consistently great.

What places just keep being delicious, visit after visit?

My choices:
Lola Cafe
Curry Kingdom
Little Ripper (for the egg and avocado sandwich especially)

It's funny, I remember this episode of Top Chef from years ago where the challenge was to make a sandwich. Tom Colicchio basically scolded some contestants who made sandwiches where when you bit into them, the ingredients squirted out the sides. But many, many sandwiches are in fact made like this. Sandwiches where there’s too much filling relative to the bread spill out.

Who in LA makes great sandwiches that actually do hold together when you bite them and the proportions are such that everything just stays together in a nice, compact unit, the whole way through?