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This past weekend, I was down in LA celebrating a slew of friends' birthdays. One afternoon included venturing to a Culver City I'd not known before: design stores, art galleries, good eats and French Maid-clad waitresses. Yep, that's right. Apparently, French Maid cafes are a trend in parts of Tokyo. So in the spirit of the Japanese-inspired cafe/gallery/shop Royal/T, owner & art collector, Sue Hancock, provides kawaii and pop eye-candy all around.
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From a gallery space that is home to a noodle-skirted, dumpling-winged sushi chicken
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and eyeball bedecked tea accoutrements...
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to a shop filled with all kinds of novelty items, including food coloring books (had to get one) and heart-shaped egg molds...
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to the cafe space where the plants on the back wall of the cafe are grown in felt pouches made from recycled plastic bottles by Woolly Pocket Garden Company...
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to the super-delicious Kobe beef sliders on brioche buns, topped three ways: bleu with caramelized onion, quail egg up & tomato chutney. The menu offers a nice selection and the tempting cupcakes were very popular at tables all around us.
Loved everything about Royal/T. It's just the kind of place I'd want to throw a royal party.
You mean Royal Par/T, right? :) I love when you blog about LA - you make everything look better and sexier. I can't wait to try out those sliders...
ReplyDeleteclearly we need to road trip together!
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