We sorely miss chowing down on the occasional half chicken/fried rice combo at a ubiquitous Bronx bulletproof Chinese joint. Now this image of a high priced wing purveyor in our nation’s capitol has us wondering; could variants of the plexi-enclosed hole in the wall take off in LA as a novel  foodie trend? Would make an uber-ironic statement in say Silver Lake. Ain’t seen one since landing here, but let us know if it exists. And for such inspiration our thanks to crack smoking former DC mayor Marion S. Barry, Jr. ‏ @marionbarryjr

We’re savoring our second cup of organic Sumatra Vienna roast, reveling in our view of the Observatory and mulling over a hike when a segment on KCRW’s Good Food show got our glad-to-be-in-LA stomach churning. This past weekend Jonathan Gold, whose LA Weekly column we embraced as a guide when first landing in town, was babbling on about LA’s restaurant grading. The Dirty Noodle Eater denounced inspections as “culturally biased” (sounds like racist to us) and as not profiling a restaurants food handling, thus having no bearing on the third world offal he makes his name reviewing. He then encouraged listeners to ignore the grades implying they only reflect bureaucratic nit picking on an eatery’s infrastructure. Now our restaurant manager stint on the Upper West informed us on the back-of-the-house horror show that’s par for the course in New York and since 2009 was a banner year for food borne illness across the United States, we find making it trendy to flout health inspections highly irresponsible. We’re thrilled the A, B, C system is one of the best manifestations of tax dollars at work anywhere. So the Legman ran Gold’s podcast by LA County Public Health for their reaction; not surprisingly the agency found the Counter Intelligence scribe to be spreading disinformation.

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