"Breakfast meeting at CJ’s Cafe on Pico. It’s like a diner. I’m a big fan of diners. I like hearing people’s conversations, the forks and knives scratching. It’s therapeutic. A diner, more than a restaurant, feels like people are being their true selves. At a restaurant you can present as someone else. At a diner, you have to be authentic. I get a couple scrambled eggs and some good ol’ breakfast potatoes."

"Lunch is a weird meal for me because I’m always out. I love to be out and see a hole-in-the-wall and try it out. That’s how I discovered My Two Cents, also on Pico. It’s a Black-owned restaurant with soul food. The catfish there is amazing. Great vibe. Love their Greens. It feels like home. Serious comfort food."

"Summer Buffalo on Melrose is a good Thai spot in the meantime. They have this crisp fried filet of sole, with a sweet-and-sour sauce, on a bed of something. Yeah, I just got chills. It’s so good. I got a tear in my eye."

"I lose it when I’m hungry, I’m not one of those people who can skip a meal. My insides will scream. I have to eat. I’m also not one of those people that’s like, “Let’s just get a green shake!” I don’t want meal replacements. I want to sit down and eat. Decide to hit up Rize by the beach. They have drunken noodles that are so good."

"I’m fully in love with eating outside — now more than ever. COVID did that to me. You’re outside and you’re so connected to the universe. Food tastes better outside. Mother Nature is wrapping her arms around you while you eat! I don’t even like going into restaurants now. But this can cause problems, because for dinner, I met a friend at Soulmate in West Hollywood and it was indoor dining only. Now, the fish was great but — let me repeat — I do not like indoor seating. Again, the sea bass was great. I would have ordered another one. It was very good. It was on a bed of quinoa with a green purée. But I hated being indoors. I kept longingly looking up thinking: Can’t we cut the roof off of this thing?"

"Lunch sounds a lot more pretentious than I am. However, the Waldorf Astoria has a rooftop restaurant that is surprisingly very good. You think of hotel food as frozen French fries and a not-great burger, but they have a spicy ahi-tuna tartare that comes with tortilla chips on a bed of avocado, with a sauce that … oh my goodness."

"For dinner, I hit up a great place, the Sunset Restaurant in Malibu. This is an amazing place. Such a vibe and ambiance, with your feet in the sand and the waves crashing. This restaurant has an order of fish tacos that are unlike any others. Normally with fish tacos, two come on the plate, and you’re like, “Okay I’m going to be hungry in 12 minutes.” But these? It feels like the whole fish is in the tacos. You might need two hands for these tacos."