Best café in LA
There is a restaurant in Los Angeles that is up for The Best Breakfast Place in Los Angeles award! They are currently leading, as they REALLY ARE the best restaurant in Los Angeles for breakfast (and other meals!).
They are called the Blu Jam Café and they rock! If you have ever eaten there, and you enjoyed it, can you please vote for them as well, as they truly deserve this reward.
Here is the link to vote.. and you can vote once a day I think. Contest ends on the 10th!
- Marina
Posted on July 6, 2008 · Filed Under Shout Outs
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http://citysbest.aol.com/los-angeles/best-dining/b reakfast/
indeed they did
Big thanks to all those who voted
Blu Jam won.
Marina;
It’s not really possible for me to vote since I haven’t been there or the competing places either. No doubt they’re getting votes from your members but some other places are being hurt by this. I think you have the best intentions (really) but you’re rigging this competition a bit and someone out there, working very hard, is being hurt by the fact that you don’t know them. I like your notion of staying away from politics. Even with the best intentions this is a form of politicing, don’t you think? Your support and cheerleading is understandable, tempting and it’s hard not to, but…Plus, I’m not sure that it is the best idea to have people know where you traffic. With all of that, be good, cause I think you are.
hopefully they won’t take as long as the brickfish’s nike sparq training comp that we voted for 7milliondollarman in. I just checked the site, and it still says ’still judging’.
The bloody thing ended on the 16th. 25 days later and same old message
Considering there was only 68 entries, judging shouldn’t take a good part of a month 
Polls are closed.
Now we wait.
Hi Koalabear. Long time no see your words. You been eating too many shoots and sleeping all day again?
It’s the Eucalyptus leaves
It’s winter down here anyways, so chances are the koalabear is trying to keep warm
I’ve been skiing, or should I say, chasing snow bunnies.
Koalabear, Skiing in July? hehe. Yea I know. I spend my Christmas day in Sydney just wearing shorts and a t-shirt.
I miss Australia; Its my second home. 
35% with the Dish gaining to 31%
4 hours to go on the left coast….
Unless some unforeseeable flood of votes comes in for the second place guy, Blujam nailed it! I’ll be looking for my gift certifcate in the mail! HA!
I’ve voted everyday since the post…won’t let me vote but once a day…we’re trying!!
35% to 30% on the last day…should be good to go…
One day left to vote!
Better get in there.
5 stars
5 Votes, they are pulling away!!
35% next best is 29%
I haven’t been there before, but I’ll be in L.A. very soon for E3, I’ll check it out. How long is the wait list? If I can’t get in during the E3 time frame it’ll have to wait for next year.
Since it seems important to you, I will cast a vote for your favorite morning egg stop. “Dobre Utra”!
Could you please define the meaning of the word HOTEL ?
I’ve not been. I’ll have to check it out. Got anything you recommend? Maybe I’ll see ya there and say hey teach
Blu Jam has some competition from the dudes at Dish in La Canada/Flintridge. They are a comfort food “mac and cheese” house which is not all bad but not half the restaurant of Blu Jam. We need to get our winning margin up. Remeber: you can vote every day. Let’s kick it in gear for Marina and her friends.
Who where in La Canada? That’s where I grew-up (started to grow-up).
Well, I am from Tierra del Fuego, and we have no restaurant here by that name. We do eat with our hands. We have many words, and sometimes we have to eat our words (how about that one, Marina?). But we have no peaches or strawberries. And we have no phrnologists, although we have many bumps on the head from living upside down. We have no choice in this unfortunate aspect, owing to our location on this part of, er, under, the world. However, we DO have wild blueberries the size of golf balls (although no golf, either, sigh), so I think this gives the requisite moral authority to cast a vote for The Unknown Restaurant. And hey, where is this place called “LA”, eh?
PS: there are many clues in this comment!
blu jam cafe.. hahaha
Hello,
I haven’t eaten there. Heck, I haven’t ever been to Los Angeles, but I voted for them. I never knew that I loved words so much. Thanks!
I voted for Blu Jam. I guess I need to scoot up the freeway now and actually GO there. When oh when do we get to meet THE Hot for Words and get her autographed picture? Any specific day of the week for breakfast? Tuesdays, Weds., & Thurs. are good for
me.
Keep up the excellent work!
Oh, how about the word “Phrnologist”? It is “one who reads the bumps on one’s head to see if they are a criminal.
Smuggler#3
32% to 30% *sweat*
I’m guessing you eat here with your hands only huh?
Staying with a Blu Jam theme, how about doing “Crepe”.
Still very close … 32% to 29%
OK 4 votes in.
But they are losing a little bit of the lead.
But I smell victory and a Peach and Strawberry Crepe.
close again…32% to 29%…
Marina Dishonest?!!! I never had breakfast with Oboma or McCain but they are asking me to vote for them telling ME
that one or the other is the BEST. Marina is like my Senator, my representative in that area of California and if she says Blu Jam is the BEST, then I vote that way. Marina has first hand knowledge, Isn’t that what politics is all about? Or is that Politics “ARE” all about Teacher? 
Marina - I did it. I voted for Blu Jam Cafe. What do you want me to do now?? If you will be appearing at the Blu Jam Cafe, I’ll be there.
I’m there all the time and don’t know who you are but any friend of Kamil’s is a friend of mine. Thanks for helping him stay ahead in the final strech.
EVERYONE - Vote early and vote daily!
Nice to meet you mm5000, perhaps I’ll see you over there at Blu Jam.. I try to make it there as often as I can!!!
hello marina can i get apicture of you
Marina, you make me want to move to L.A real talk.
I feel I can’t actually vote, as I’ve not eaten there.
However, if I ever go to LA I will be sure to stop by and check them out.
3 votes cast and they are breaking away.
Just voted for Blu Jam. I will have to stop by and get a bite when I am next in LA.
How can I get a autographed picture of you?
Meet me at at Blu Jam
what time
You got your favor!
Voted!
Still, The George Cafe near by has just got to be THE best cafe in the world, ever
widening the gap…33% vs. 26% for second-place…
i voted for the blu jam cafe anything for my teacher
I”ll take a plane and critic their food
Hi Miss Marina I voted for the Blu Jam anything for a friend. I love blueberry pancakes so I grew me my own blue berry bushes so I could make some pancakes anytime I wanted some. They freeze very well if you don’t wet them before putting them in the freezer. You are welcome to a big stack of hotcakes if you are ever in NC.
I used to live on Harper between Sunset and Fountain, which is not far from where the Blu Jam is. Then I came back to the one and only THE city.
Hmmm,I voted yesterday but there is no voting option yet today,maybe it really means 24 hours from My last vote.I’ll check later.
I like; A pile of fresh,warm pancakes(Buckwheat) with real butter and dark syrup,3-4 over-easy eggs-and a 1″ thick slab of Ham for breakfast,all packed/piled on one big plate with a mug of Hawaiian Coffee to wash it down,,,,,,,mmmmmmm yummy!! *Trips My trigger* and no mistake!
2nd choice would be Trout for breakfast.Had that once after a loooong night of Midwest gravel road touring,We were *wayyy loaded* but well behaved in the wee hours of morning,funny I can even remember it!
Voted
(now do they deliver?)
By 747 jet! What would you like?
a stack of blueberry pancakes, 4 eggs over easy,
4 sausage links and a large glass of fresh squeezed
orange juice
voted again
and again
Marina, it’s nice of you to want to help your friends but I can’t honestly vote for them since I’ve never eaten there.
sniperskaya, I would never ask you do do something dishonest like that!
Marina,
No good deed goes unpunished. Other people with restaurants will bitch about you getting your Minions to vote for Your friends.
Be ready for the fallout.
Sorry.
Thing is, an “online” vote like this is so uncontrolled anyway. *I* am not going to vote, but I think if they really cared that Marina is asking us all to vote for her friend, they wouldn’t have made it an online vote in the first place. It’s the most highly inaccurate voting method in the world, just because of how very easy it is for someone like Marina to screw it up (no offense meant to you, Marina!)
Now, I will point out to everyone that Marina does say…”If you have ever eaten there, and you enjoyed it, can you please vote for them as well,”
So, she is NOT telling those of us that haven’t eaten there to vote also, although of course many of us are, and as I said, that’s the problem with online voting, it’s not Marina.
Hi sniperskaya. Just curious here,do You think every voter has eaten at every restaurant? No,of course You don’t. The vote will reflect the satisfied Customers *and* Their Friends for each restaurant. Use the link and vote if You wish to,honesty is great but let guilt be for the Guilty and left out of Your day.
A “tyrant” with a moral conscience who reads minds? Interesting. I would think that the people who vote have eaten at the restaurant they vote for or else it is meaningless. “Honesty for the guilty”? Doesn’t make any sense. I’m glad Marina is honest.
Allthough I´m from Germany I voted, hopefully it gets accepted.
I voted again.
It is sometimes helpful to be 17 hours ahead of LA time.
true that
I suppose, as a resident of Scotland, I should have voted for the “John o’Groats”, but I wilco’d your request, “because your worth it”.
I looked for but didn’t find a review by hotforwords.
correction; “because you’re worth it”
No problem Marina, this was a whole lot easier for me to stomach that Bill O’Reilly.
Tell me Marina , do I have to make a reservation to eat there? Is i always packed? Whould it be worth a 3 hour drive?…tell me, tell me!!…please
No reservations required! 3 hour drive *might* be worth it if your teacher was eating there as well!
Well then…
…I’m on my way, saaaay, 9ish? Sat?
Ok, map quest says its only 1.8 hrs from northern San Diego…they must not drive in LA much
…maybe Page and I WILL wing up there on sat and check it out…I bet I can make it in 1.5 HA! 
What better way to spend the day or morning. Ride up their on your bike, a little breakfast with the teacher, see if she likes to ride then what more could you ask for.
a 3 hour tour…a 3 hour tour *whistles gilligan’s island theme*
OOOOHH, refresh work, thanks!
Try clicking the part where it says you have to be logged in to make comments where the comment box supposed to be, if not, always try refreshing.
I voted, but I have a problem. I logged in and I can comment on this, “a favor to ask”, but when I go to the lesson soccor it says i’m logged out or need to log in. sO i CLICK on log in at the top of the comments and it just relods the page but doesn’t take me to the log in page?…does that make any sense? Anybody?…Marina?…little help over here…
Oh God could you imagine a Meet Hotforwords breakfast a this place?
Like a book signing Bring her videos , Posters, Book, Autographed Pictures. A meet and greet? Man that would be a big deal..
Catering tents LoTs of Security, A publicist, Maxum Radio promotion, Utube mentions and word of mouth.
Get on it Marina. Damn If I must say so myself. Sounds GOOD
Haha, that would put the icing on the cake to make that restaurant #1
it woud be like Warm maple syrup porred over Hot tower of pancakes ….
or like Apple pie with Custurd YUMMY !!
No problem Marina! Actually, it should be us asking you a favor if you can ask us a favor! haha
Марина, Я дал им мой вотум. Они теперь на 31%. До свидания для теперь моего дорогого учителя. SGROCK
I voted too and we’re winning!!!
Yep up to 13 % so far.
Sorry Shawn 33%
Hi Marina:
I voted. I hope visit that place soon.
alidor
I voted
Yes I voted for your Blujam but if another choice would have been “The Pantry” I would have cast my vote there. In all actuality it has been many years since I have lived there so when I visit my family there I will take them to this place you call Blu Jam. Chief
Dear Marina,
I voted for Blu Jam because you asked, not that I’ve ever been there. I like blueberries very much, even though they are expensive. With my vote, they lead with 31% of votes, so far. I’m scheduled to make a speech in Southern California in January, 2010. (Yes, that far ahead!) So, Ill be able to try breakfast, there. I’d rather make breakfast for you, someday!
seesix CM6
Marina, Marina –I voted. Anything for you my prescious. Now if you could come to my home my
eacher and demoustrate how to tell my friends to vote that would be GREAT! I tried the place you told me “share” but I was only able to put my friends’ e-mail address and then everything disappeared. What am I to do my teacher - without you? Rex. 
I voted for sure
Glad to help out. If you like the place, that is good enough for me and I’ll have to eat there sometime…again…I think I did once.
I just read your article about Dachshunds. It is a shame that the little breed has got such a bad review of their temperment. I have owned many miniture Dachshunds for 30 years. The only person the one we have now has ever bitten was one of my son’s friends that used to pick at him when the dog was younger other than that he is a very friendly dog. I guess it comes from the German breeding of the dog to hunt Badgers in their dens. Hince the word Dachshund meaning badgerhound in the dictionary. This will be the only dog we will ever have because we love the breed so much. Thanks for such a fine article. I look forward to more of you’r fine writing. MIke
Mike- Thanks. I did my best to write honestly of our experiences. Even as I respond to you, I have a photo of one son holding our beloved former dachshund, the one that would have sacrificed his life for our son. The dog loved the boy so much. They were bonded…but when a dachshund goes after other children, it is risky.
He did that when a friend was joking around with my son. The dog went after him and it scared me. That same dog grabbed a rabbit in two seconds flat after I opened the door to our backyard, not realizing a rabbit was frozen in place across the yard. Also, we nearly had to send cavers after him when he tried to get a skunk or badger that was under a backyard storage shed. The dog would NOT come out and was determined to get that badger or get killed…and we feared he’d get killed. But who knows? The dachshund might have won. I was yelling so loud for him to..come…back! The badger must have had a back entrance because eventually the noise stopped and dog returned, looking victorious but no badger in his teeth.
Now go read the article about Marina again and click on the link back to her site so she gets the page views
I’m here as a fan.
ya i vote sweetheart anything fer you !!!! how bout dinner for two
I voted for blu jam cafe, im so helpful.
I will be sure to stop the next time I’m in LA. If our teacher recomends it, it must have great taste!
Blueberry Crepes.(Hum, need an icon for lip licking)
Now I’m getting hungry.
Voted and salivating.
Well Teach,You look plenty healthy so it must be good chow eh? I voted for Blu Jam even though I own Dish retaurant!! Just kidding,I do’nt own anything outside the Midwest,but,I do make a tastey breakfast!
tryant, you scared me there for a second!!!
Scared You!? Was it the “owning restaurant” joke or the somewhat veiled invitation to breakfast?! Of course arriving 12 hours early for a 9AM breakfast would work nicely.
Yes I voted for them. Haven’t been to LA for a few years but I’m due. Gee, if I become your T.A.(Paaaleeese), I’ll certainly be there. Great Asian noodles and Sushi restaurants as well!
I could go for an omelet, with side of well done, scattered hash browns (with peppers and onions), and a side of crispy bacon. Rye toast, too, please! Gotta have the rye toast…..
Mmmm…. and a nice piping hot cup of freshly brewed coffee and a tall cool glass of ice water…..
Yum!
Oh, and the omelet should have chorizo sausage, cheddar cheese, green peppers, onions, diced tomatoes.
….and I’ll need some hot sauce please…..
.
Coming right up! Mind if I join you?
By all means! Please do!
[and, before the stampede starts..... to the hordes that are going to try to muscle into our table.... the answer is no. Marina and I are going to have nice, relaxing breakfast on our own....
]
Marina, i think you should not join him.
did i mention that i can be a very charming waiter to women?…
Maia Marina, A friendly Joke, How did the devil get into the egg? He poked it with his pointy little tail!
My omelet is hard to eat without a fork.
Marina,
It is sweet that you want to help out a friend. I just voyted for Blu Jam Cafe. When I voted the websiote gace me the results so far. The results so far show that they are ahead with 30% of the vote. Number 2 has 27% of the vote. I hope your friends win.
Done
well i voted for the cafe you asked us too.
tight vote right now…30% to 27%…
who else has got Teacher’s back?…c’mon, do it for the bagels!…
Just wanted you and the Captain and others to know that I tried to reply to some replies earlier today but I could not. It wasn’t intentional, just seemed to be a temporary glitch. I saw the replies, though, and was happy.
glad you are back…
I had to laugh, because some of the guy’s were hitting on Pagedoll & he was going to play along till they found out he was a guy…(I did use a u in the middle there, yup.)
Should WE at least try it??
are you doubting Teacher?…
blasphemer!…
roadrunrnch, are you in LA? If not, then YES! The second you are here.. you should go there as it really is the best!
SEe you do read my posts after all.
No way , LA is a scary place. I am out in the middle of Wine Country.
Although Come out to Temecula Wine country. Great food and Wine. You and your Friend[s] would love as do a lot of LA’ers.
RRR
still reading just not Ranting like a loon.
Marina, the Angelina! You’re no Ne’ Yawkah–Are we doomed to argue now?!
En fait, j’ai le cœur brisé maintenant, qui n’a pas de sens du tout.
I would try it but last time I was in L.A I got in a little fight with some L.A Laker fans