Bloody Maria to start with…of course..chased with a coffee
Huevos divorciados for me…homemade tortillas on the side
Huevos rancheros for Jim 
The breakfast/brunch drink menu
The brunch menu….no of the sauces use thickeners made of gluten—rice flour! And they even have gluten free pancakes
Our 18th valentines day…at pommes frites in palm springs 
A favorite flemish ale:
Prix fixe vday dinner
Beets napolean:
A yummy new beer:
Potato croquettes, filet, shrimp
Jims gluten free version with mashed instead of croquettes (the mashed has nutmeg…tasty)
Grand marnier creme brulee:
🙂
my mother was in town two weeks ago and we usually hit sushi during her trips since she lives in the sushi desert…gyoro gyoro is a place we have tried in Palm Springs and now they have a location near us (they have 150 locations in Tokyo). They have a great happy hour DAILY until 6:30 and a yelp coupon for 5 bucks off EVERY 25 spent. So we raced home to pick her up and hit happy hour pricing . Gyoro-gyoro
Saki for her
Echigo gluten free rice beer.
Glutinous Sapporo for me
Shishito pepper with miso glaze (on the side for gluten man)
White fish and sauce on the sauce—loses its charm with no pretty presentation huh?
Yellowtail habanero sauce on side
Yakitori mushrooms
Yakitori Japanese sausages which are super tasty
Very nice roll wrapped in Cucs and gluten free…Monrovia roll
The sushi platter is on the happy hour menu and we got my mother to eat the shrimp and suck the head in pure Asian style
Three hand rolls happy hour special
Yellowtail belly
Avocado roll
These are balls wrapped in rice….they have salmon and pickled plum! Oginiri? That’s not right but close…
The price of doing this late is I forget what foods we actually had (especially if I didn’t order them)
I’m still playing catch up. My mom came for a visit and wanted Mexican so we passed on the Friday ritual of el Queso Grande and went to Salsa and Beer who had a wait at 7 pm on a Tuesday so off to El patron . Who tends to have great margaritas and sketchy service and used to have an extensive veg menu. About a year ago they revised the menu and rebranded to become a gastro-cantina and elimates the awesome cauliflower relleno ….but they have a tofu burrito that rocks.
The ultimate Cadillac
Mango on fire!
My mother with the salt less house marg on the rocks
Who can resist made to order table side guac?!?
My surprisingly good tofu burrito…they have a few dishes that you have choice of protein which includes a tofu option
Huevos rancheros
A quesadilla with fillings that I have forgotten
One of our last 2015 meals.:-)
Back to Palm Springs for four days of work…so we eat….this is round one at blue coyote
Crabmeat relleno for me
Carnitas for jim
Right outside the door
Back to our fave…el mirasol and we are outside on the patio
This is a custom dish…it’s a shrimp with tomatillo sauce with Dona Diablo sauce added for some spice 
I think it is carnitas….
Flash forward to Wednesday and it’s our love Tropicale and our fav server remember Ed us and my Fiery Dragon low on the sweet
And a coconut martini for him of course
Gluten free pizza appy
She so did not want her picture taken
Giant shrimp and a filet on potatoes….the least inspired dish I have ever had here
Cioppino
Some crazy ass snickers cake that was gluten free and quite yummy
Palm Springs street fair findings….and the sample was seriously spicy
Love this stuff
After the street fair it’s time for a trip to pommes frites…tres Belgique, non?
Always start with the affligem
Not for the true vegs!!!! Tar tar! But it was yummy:-)
Next round saint bernarbus
My mussels with mustard cream sauce
And of course, the pommes frites with three sauces
I’m so behind everyone…work insanity, thanksgiving plus out of town work insanity.
But we are back and hit gyoro-gyoro izakaya on the way home from today’s outings. We have been to the Palm Springs location a couple times…they have 150 restaurants in Tokyo and are venturing into the states….Japanese bar food.
They are one of the few places that stock echigo rice beer which by default has no gluten
Yellowtail and jalapeño are on the daily happy hour menu:-)
Scallops
Shishito! On the happy hour menu too! They are served with a Carmelites miso which was unique
Veggie roll!
Uni hand roll 
Shiitake yakitori
Rainbow roll
Kuroboto sausage yakitori and chicken liver yakitori…..and here we popped into meat eater zone.
Extra nice that yelp had a check in coupon of 5 dollars off every 25 dollars you spend
It’s Friday but instead of dinner, we did lunch at El Queso Grande… 
I did change it up and have eggs
For a snack…super yummy (but a tad salty) bolder canyon turkey and gravy chip
And for dinner…leftovers
Leftover stuffing patties, potato and turkey hash, some cran resin and an avocado so far today….
It was sunny and warm today and then big black clouds rolled in and drizzled rain and the temp dropped to 60 (yup)….so it was time for want food for lunch. Pho 999 to the rescue! 
I don’t have the gluten issue so I am free to have beer:-)
We have just the shrimp…no pork.
Rice noodles and lettuce inside rice paper…no gluten here
I get the veggie and tofu pho
I told you it was cold…everything is better with some kick
Jim of course had beefy traditional pho…but had the veggie broth so it doesn’t taste as “beefy”……
It’s been like 20 years since I have been to El Cholo…near USC it used to be a frequent place to eat…I swear to this day I sat at the table next to George Takei one night…but I digress…
Returning from the doll show in Orange County Sunday and I was mulling over non valley spots to dine and then the 101 was closed north of the 10 which caused the 5 to get gnarly causing me to hop on the 10 and el cholo became the obvious choice…
I’ve always loved the original menus on display with 1920s prices (no pics today, but like a nickel for a taco…)
I got the Cadillac which is made from a house bottled mix (which they sell)
And Jim got the pineapple-Serrano. This puppy had a nice burn on the way down
Enchilada mariscos for me….lobster scallop and shrimp with a nice sauce
Jim got the “special” mariscos fajitas
(Did you notice the green rice)
This is Jim looking sad because we missed the seasonal green corn tamale by a week
If you have ever been to el cholo, you know they wrap up the meal with house made pralines
Nice flashbacks today from my earlier years 🙂
Check them out online Elcholo.com
we are way behind in our usual sushi consumption and after our lunch date stood us up….I figure let’s have some sushi!
Cho Cho San is super close to our house and tasty and busy enough to justify their goodness
For starters we had shishitos without soy sauce
And Hokkaido scallop carpaccio
Followed by spicy scallop hand roll
Black snapper
A “hurricane” roll
And sashimi sampler
And bam! Saw people we knew at the sushi bar
Brian and Jim Eat 
