Comments on Two Hungry Pandas-- Eating & Reviewing Our Way Thru the San Gabriel Valley & Los Angeles: Church & State

Nice review guys! Might have to check this place o...

2009-06-23T22:43:20.319-07:00

Nice review guys! Might have to check this place out for a birthday celebration. We met chef Manzke at Taste of the Nation LA--really nice and his bershire pork burgers were something else! Seems like you guys started blogging the same time we did!

wow.. must wipe the drool off my face. YUM!

2009-06-15T12:17:34.533-07:00

wow.. must wipe the drool off my face. YUM!

For this C&S I used a Canon 5D. However most o...

2009-06-13T21:54:26.520-07:00

For this C&S I used a Canon 5D. However most of my pictures on the blog are from a 20D or 1D. I like to shoot without a flash and use the natural light of the restaurant no matter how dark it may be.

At C&S we were in a dark corner but I managed to position a small candle to provide most of the ambient light.

Great review and I'm happy you guys had a grea...

2009-06-12T01:01:34.492-07:00

Great review and I'm happy you guys had a great time at C&S. It looks like the steak frites was better than the version what we had, but I loved the frites cooked in lard. The mac n' cheese @ $6 looks to be a bargin, I have to try that next time!

BTW, great pics, what are you shooting with? One thing working against me that night was using the prime lens on my dSLR, thus, I