{"id":5074,"date":"2010-07-28T08:56:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T15:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=5074"},"modified":"2010-07-28T08:57:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T15:57:48","slug":"la-philippes-french-dip-and-lance-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=5074","title":{"rendered":"LA: Philippe&#8217;s French Dip and Lance Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5077\" title=\"Philippe's French Dip Sandwiches\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/la2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/la2.jpg 405w, http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/la2-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the edge of LA&#8217;s Chinatown sits the birthplace of the French Dip sandwich, <a title=\"Philippes French Dip\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philippes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Philippe&#8217;s<\/a>. Or at least, that&#8217;s what they say. Go downtown and <a title=\"Cole's French Dip\" href=\"http:\/\/colesfrenchdip.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cole&#8217;s<\/a> will claim the same thing. I can&#8217;t speak for <strong>Cole&#8217;s<\/strong>, but <strong>Philippe&#8217;s<\/strong> was a fine sando. [Sorry, no pic. It went down too fast.] For a pre-dipped version, it was surprisingly moist and flavorful without being a sloppy, drowning mess. And they score points for their clientele:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5076\" title=\"Fred with Lance Mountain\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/la1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/la1.jpg 405w, http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/la1-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As ecstatic as he looks to put down his dip and take a pic with another,\u00a0<a title=\"Skate: Nike SB \u201cToday Was A Good Day\u201d with Paul Rodriguez and Ice Cube (and Lance Mountain?)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=1555\">Lance<\/a> was actually super nice. Hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to harass him at the <strong>X-Games<\/strong> tomorrow. Stalker alert!<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<a title=\"Adv: Skating A Full Pool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=3754\">Adv: Skating A Full Pool<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Gnarcade: 8-Bit Attack on Mt. Hood\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=4902\">Gnarcade: 8-Bit Attack on Mt. Hood<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Art: Shadow Skaters by TR853-1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=1781\">Art: Shadow Skaters by TR853-1<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Skate: Nike SB \u201cToday Was A Good Day\u201d with Paul Rodriguez and Ice Cube (and Lance Mountain?)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=1555\">Skate: Nike SB \u201cToday Was A Good Day\u201d with Paul Rodriguez and Ice Cube (and Lance Mountain?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the edge of LA&#8217;s Chinatown sits the birthplace of the French Dip sandwich, Philippe&#8217;s. Or at least, that&#8217;s what they say. Go downtown and Cole&#8217;s will claim the same thing. I can&#8217;t speak for Cole&#8217;s, but Philippe&#8217;s was a fine sando. [Sorry, no pic. It went down too fast.] For a pre-dipped version, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1945,648,1476,1946,228],"class_list":["post-5074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fooddrink","tag-french-dip","tag-lance-mountain","tag-los-angeles","tag-philippes-french-dip","tag-skateboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5080,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074\/revisions\/5080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}