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Rosso’s Corkage Guide »
Three cheers for Rosso Wine Shop in Montrose for putting together a terrific resource for wine lovers: a corkage guide to L.A.-area restaurants. Here’s the link to the its roster. And here are a few notables from the list whose corkage fees are under $10 — or even free! Bottega Louie (free) Café Bizou ($2) Café Pinot (free) Casa [...]...
March 18 2010 / No comments / Read More »
St. Patrick’s Day Pubs »
So many Irish bars, so little time — particularly on St. Patrick’s Day. Some are more “bare bones,” as one of our editors refers to them (that’s code for dive bar), while others can all too quickly cross the line into Riverdance territory. Here are a few that will be pulling out the green carpet [...]...
March 11 2010 / 2 comments / Read More »Op-Fed
Medflies: It Just Takes Two »
Where were we? Right, Medflies. You’ve been seeing the signs of a quarantine (such as netting over produce) in farmers’ markets in Santa Monica, Culver City and adjoining areas (see my original post on the subject here). They’re not beneficial insects — they don’t pollinate fruit, they destroy it — so once their presence has been [...]...
March 15 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »Discoveries
Lazy Ox Canteen »
WHY To pretend you’re in Barcelona, or the East Village, or maybe Berkeley, if only for an evening. WHAT On an anonymous-looking block in Little Tokyo is this Downtown hot spot,...
Mar 16 2010 / No comments / Read More »Slaw Dogs »
WHY West Virginia may have figured out a long time ago that cole slaw goes good on a hot dog, but here in California it’s a revelation. WHAT You can create...
Mar 12 2010 / No comments / Read More »Deals
Supper Liberation Front »
Blame it on our nose-to-the-grindstone L.A. County health inspectors, who always seem to ferret out a food festival or suspicious food truck, or maybe it’s the traffic’s fault, but Los...
1 comment / Read More »Events
A Big Ol’ Slab of Treat »
The world’s largest Rice Krispie Treat — a 10,460-pound creation that seemed spawned from Willy Wonka’s factory — came to be on Sunday on the field outside the Community Center of...
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