Home

I had never heard of the restaurant Home in Los Feliz until some friends invited us there for dinner last night. I'm not sure how I missed it before because it is such a great atmosphere and they have such a wide variety of dishes on the menu. When you first arrive, the outdoor patio greets you with it's cedar deck and warm, inviting space heaters on cool nights. We all sat in a large wooden booth outside and it was just a perfect night for it. They supposedly have great martinis, but none of us got any and we all stuck to margaritas or beer (which are fairly decently priced - $6.50 for a regularly sized marg). For dinner, we skipped appetizers and got right on to entrees. I had the caramelized apple salad with pecans, goat cheese and tomato in it. It was really good and really sweet. This is slightly different than your normal goat cheese/pecan/apple salad in that the apples are caramelized, so they are sweeter, tasting almost like you put some apple pie in your salad. Chase had the BBQ chicken pizza, which I tried, and I have to say, I'm not normally that partial to BBQ chicken pizza, but at Home I liked it. The BBQ sauce was tangy, but not overwhelming and really not steering too clear of a normal tomato sauce. The other people in our group had the French toast, which came with 4 medium sized pieces and must have been pretty good b/c he cleaned his plate, the chicken tender salad, which looked really good and plentiful, the BLT, which came with some amazing waffle fries, and the goat cheese salad, which was pretty much like my salad if you swap the pecans for pine nuts and take out the apple and tomato. All of the entrees were between $8-15 and well worth what you pay for. We were all so stuffed that we had no room for dessert and left paying about $30-40 a couple. Due to the casualness of the restaurant, I'm not sure that I would say you should make a special trip out to Home if you don't live close to it, but if you're having a night out in Hollywood/Los Feliz, it's definitely a terrific way to start the night!

http://www.homelosfeliz.com/