El novio y yo took the friends out for helping us move. Mando had the great idea to go to A-Frame, which has the delightful honor of having Chef Roy (you know, of Chego and the Kogi Truck) as their head chef. The food was great but you know I was looking forward to dessert before we even ate…

There were two ice cream sandwiches: cherry oatmeal cookie with some ice cream — I didn’t look into the details once I saw “cherry” and “oatmeal” — so by default my friend and I chose the other one: Szechuan pepper cookies sandwiching ginger ice cream. Ginger cookies aren’t hard to come by, but ginger ice cream… now that’s different!

The cookie was sizeable without being too huge (sorry, no hand in the picture). The cookie, aside from being dense and moist, was definitely peppery! You couldn’t see individual pieces of pepper but you knew for sure it was there. There was a weird taste I could not put my finger on. The ice cream was not much to talk about; I think the cookie overwhelmed the taste of the ice cream, but not sure how it would have gone over if the ice cream was more flavorful. Or maybe I was just way too focused on what the heck was in the cookie I wasn’t loving…

• Taste: 7
• Crust and center moistness: Cookie got to be a little crumbly, but it’s hard to eat a cookie w/ a fork in the first place.
• Value: $6, which is like half an entree, so pretty good
• Overall: I would eat it again because I know I’m going to come back but I’d love to try some other things first. 7

A-Frame
http://www.aframela.com
12565 Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90066
310-398-7700

They’re open until 2AM everyday, but not every section of their menu is available all the time — their lunch menu stops at 3:30, they serve smaller plates until 5 or 5:30 which is when their dinner menu gets served.