Hipster Dinner

Since John is quite the hipster, we decided to take him to Umami Burger for dinner on Friday evening. At first, we didn't know if it would be kid friendly, but we decided to take a chance. We visited the location on La Brea. It's small, but they carved out a nice space for us.

The best part of the experience, aside from the food, was that they had a paper table cover. We knew that'd be great for John's artistic expressions. Maureen, being the good mother, is always prepared with crayons for such event. He particularly likes the blue crayons. He actually walks around our apartment with 3 or 4 blue crayons and leaves them in random places.

Our server was a pleasant young man with a few tattoos and an interesting hairstyle. John seemed to like him and the server was kind enough to play "boop" with him. What's "Boop", you say? It's a game where wour server would touch the tip of John's nose with his finger and say, "BOOP!". John loved it and our server was kind enough to keep John entertained in that manner.

As for the food, I'd say it was ok. I had the Umami Burger plain. It was slightly undercooked, but it was good. I'd order it again. Maureen had the California burger well done. Maureen and John both liked it. John really liked his fries though. I think that's his favorite food. The funny thing is that John doesn't call them fries. He calls them pizza.

If you go to Umami Burger early enough, it's ok for kids. If you go after 5 PM, I'd say keep the kids at home. John and Nicholas were both on their best behavior and John had a grand old time writing on the paper. He knows that he's only allowed to write on paper although a few yellow crayon marks on his bedroom wall may tell you otherwise. Look at his grip on the crayon. Maureen says that some of her kindergarteners cannot grip crayons as well as our wunderkind!!