Do You Like Your Meat Massaged?

FINALLY!!! We have Kobe beef in stock to explode your taste buds with. There is some weird cattle shortage going on lately, so we were delayed about 3 weeks on this shipment and our prime beef shipments have been slowing down, too.

Anyhoo, we're not sure how long this stick is going to last considering people have been poking our ears for it and we've been making excuses about not having it in stock for far too long, but come on in and let our meat melt in your mouth *ahem*!

Kobe flavored smoochies,
Len

Pierrick Le Cool

So we had our first official "event" at our restaurant this past week. As odd as it may sound, we did a French Wine pairing with our food. We were lucky enough to have Pierrick Bouquet, SoCal French wine specialist, come host the event with us. Pierrick stopped in a few weeks ago with a good friend of ours, Evelyn, to try out our food to see how he thought it would pair with French wines and came out of the dinner as excited as we were. Click on the pic above for some more photos of the night.

What we came up with was four (4) wines to be served along with fresh vegetables and a sampler plate consisting of beef, chicken, salmon, and shrimp. The event was a lot of fun, and by fun I mean buzzed, stuffed, and happy campers. It was a new experience for a lot of us to have French wines with Shabu, but we're hoping to do this again every few months with new pairings!

Our internet spies also caught us on the following sites for our event (OK, so we didn't headline the event section, but just scroll around and you'll see us there somewhere in tiny font):

http://www.greersoc.com/oc-weekend/23/
http://www.dailypilot.com/articles/2009/07/02/shopping/dpt-bestbuys07032009.txt
http://www.pierrickbouquet.com/wine/Agenda/Entries/2009/7/7_French_wine_tasting_and_Japanese_food_pairing_at_California_Shabu_Shabu.html

Also, please take a peek below for Pierrick's site for more upcoming events and Evelyn's site for eye blinding jewelry design:

http://www.pierrickbouquet.com/wine/Home.html
http://www.evelynh.com/


Smoochies,
Len

I Assure You, We're Open

For those who didn't get the reference, do yourself a favor and watch Kevin Smith's first movie, Clerks.

Do you see how desolate the restaurant looks? This was our first Sunday that we were open for lunch (June 21st, 2009 AD). Most of our normal customers don't know that we are open on Sundays for lunch since Wayne's OG California Shabu Shabu has Sunday lunch off. Anyhoo, now you guys know we're heeeeeeeerrrrrreeeeeeee!

FYI, our hours are:
Sunday - Thursday : 11:30 AM - 2 PM / 5 PM - 10 PM
Friday - Saturday : 11:30 AM - 2 PM / 5 PM - 11 PM

OK, I have to go set up the front of the restaurant while Ash preps meat for the day. See you guys soon!


Smoochies,
Len