Monday, April 23, 2018

The Stinking Rose, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, The Stinking Rose

Faced with the prospect of seeking alternative dinner plans, The Stinking Rose (55 North La Cienega Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211, tel : +310 652 7673), a garlic themed restaurant came up as a suggestion. As it turned out, all of us liked garlic. What coincidence! 

Los Angeles, The Stinking Rose, bread

While waiting, we filled up on bread and beer with their garlic rose relish - the latter a pretty darned good concoction of chopped garlic and parsley with salt and vinegar in olive oil.

Los Angeles, The Stinking Rose, garlic rose relish

Since we were prepared to be garlick-ed up for the night, we got ourselves a portion of their bagna cauda - roasted garlic in extra virgin olive oil and anchovies. Those garlic were sweet and just slightly pungent. Made an excellent spread since they were also pretty soft after all that roasting.

Los Angeles, The Stinking Rose, bread relish

Made also good eating with even more bread along with the garlic rose relish.

Los Angeles, The Stinking Rose, asparagus blue cheese

Almost everything on menu was supposed to be flavoured with garlic. I couldn't taste any of it from their chilled asparagus with blue cheese bits. But I liked them because they were tender without being fibrous and of course, those blue cheese. 

Los Angeles, The Stinking Rose, fried calamari

More munching came in the form of fried calamari. These were crispy and had a good squid-y chew.

Los Angeles, The Stinking Rose, garlic prime rib

Here's a garlic prime rib which featured some of the roasted garlic cloves on top of the meat. That prime rib wasn't too bad. Probably not as tender as Lawry's across the road but I couldn't complain.

Los Angeles, The Stinking Rose, garlic ice cream

We couldn't leave the restaurant without giving their garlic ice cream a go even though we were stuffed. The topping if you were wondering wasn't some roasted/burnt garlic sauce of some sort. It's salted caramel. The garlic came from the ice cream and the flavour came through without being excessive or weird. It's actually kinda nice.

Los Angeles, The Stinking Rose, Count Vladimir

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