Pure lunch at Pure Luck
Today I got to enjoy a fun mini-meet-up with two other Los Angeles area vegan food bloggers Vegyogini and Your Vegan Mom (with Her Vegan Son). We chose Pure Luck for our lunch, whose close proximity to Scoops across the street made it a no-brainer.
I had the cold noodle salad, a delightful rice noodle dish with fresh spinach, basil, sprouts, grilled tofu and peanuts. It was similar to pad thai but without the usual tamarind flavor. It had it’s own unique and delicious dressing, and unfortunately I’m not remembering what was in it right now (I’ll get back to you on that). It also came with these yummy, chewy, doughy things that you can see over on the right side of the plate, they tasted like eggroll skins. I mixed everything up with the chili sauce and fresh squeezed lime and it was awesome. It’s nice that there’s a diet friendly option on their menu (which you’ll see quickly becomes irrelevant when followed by the next two paragraphs).
Over yonder at Scoops, I tried Strawberry & Jasmine and the Spiced Pumpkin. The strawberry was excellent, not too sweet or tart with a nice flowery hint of jasmine. The texture was like buttery smooth ice cream, just right. The pumpkin was pretty good too, but I can’t say that I loved it. The spice was a bit much and the texture was kinda grainy. The strawberry would have passed as real dairy ice cream with no problem, the pumpkin not so much.
And to top all that off, our fabulous Vegan Mom brought us some delicious homemade almond-apricot-chocolate cakey thingies. These wonderful little treats were so good! The cake part tasted like amazingly soft marzipan… then top that off in your mind with sweet apricot filling, more almondy goodness… then chocolate and nuts. Wow. It’s a good thing I only had two because I probably could have eaten 20.
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I think I’d like to try that noodle dish next time…it looked SO good! I’m going to review those ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS mini-cakes today, I think. Wow, were those fantastic and you’re right, I could’ve eaten so many more of those. That just might have been the best dessert I’ve had in a long time. Oh, and I’m all ears whenever you want to talk about dumb boys. No need to apologize for that!!!
Comment by vegyogini — November 18, 2007 @ 11:17 am
How fun that you not only got to enjoy a fabulous lunch and dessert, but that you got to meet two fellow vegan bloggers as well!! :0D
Comment by VeggieGirl — November 18, 2007 @ 5:17 pm
Oh you girls. Thank you for your kind words and for making my cakes look pretty even in a tupperware container. You are so good at composing a shot. I think I want your salad next time too.
Comment by Trina — November 19, 2007 @ 5:08 pm
I’m thinking Scoops deserves an entry all its own based on yr yummy description. Can you post its address? Can’t wait to give both these places a go in my next l.a. outing!
Comment by slacker chick — November 20, 2007 @ 2:05 am
Slacker Chick: You can find that info for all places mentioned in this blog on the Addresses & Locations page. You can always get to that link from over there on the right side menu, under “Categories”.
Comment by FoodEater — November 20, 2007 @ 3:04 am
Checking out your site, I’m suddenly longing for another trip to the west coast. Somehow it seems there are some pretty delicious veg options when eating out. Thanks for the inside view!
Comment by Dayna — November 20, 2007 @ 10:16 pm
Dayna: Thanks for stopping by… the west coast is ready for your next visit!
Comment by FoodEater — November 21, 2007 @ 12:04 pm
where was my invite??? oh wait, i need to do a blog first. doh!
Comment by scott — November 21, 2007 @ 1:50 pm
Scott: Sorry we left you out! It was an all-boobie sorta thing :)
Comment by FoodEater — November 21, 2007 @ 9:31 pm
do ‘man boobs’ count? just curious.
Comment by scott — November 27, 2007 @ 7:13 pm
Scott: As long as they’re not bigger than mine ;)
Comment by FoodEater — November 29, 2007 @ 11:40 pm