Los Angeles is full of wine tastings and pairings and rich with classy new cocktails, but this weekend, beer get its day in the proverbial sun. The Los Angeles Beer Festival sets out to do just that. For $40 you can sample unlimited beer from dozens of local, national and international breweries. Along with the drink [...]
Attention bargain lovers: Goldstar has a deal on the upcoming 2nd Annual L.A. BBQ Festival, which descends on the Santa Monica Pier’s north parking lot May 9th and 10th. Admission is $10, which Goldstar is discounting to $5 while their stock of tickets lasts. That’s just for admission to the event, which features a number [...]
312 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, 310.451.7482. L Mon.-Fri., D & late supper nightly. Italian/modern American. Full bar. AE, MC, V. $$-$$$$ WHY Because there really are some late-night Promenade shoppers searching for a reasonably priced bistro with good, not gimmicky, food. Honest. WHAT Chef Jason Travi and sommelier Thierry Perez dub their new venture an Italian-inspired [...]
Here are a few things going on this weekend that you should know about:
• Warren Schwartz’s Westside Tavern opens in the Westside Pavilion, just in time for you to have a James Ranch lamb french dip and a glass of Bonny Doon Sangiovese after seeing Sunshine Cleaning at the Landmark.
• Not only do cupcakes refuse [...]
We’re grateful for yesterday’s in-depth coverage in the L.A. Times Food section of good pizza in L.A., from New York style to Cal-Ital “gourmet” creations. The Times’s crack team dug up the essentials on most of the best pizzas in the area, but of course they don’t have the page count to get to every [...]
It seems like we’ve been hearing about the coming of Reservoir for, oh, a decade or so, and at last the former Netty’s has become the chic little bistro that owner/chef Gloria Felix envisioned. I cannot think of a worse time for a moderately upscale restaurant to open, and yet on a Tuesday night this [...]
A longstanding pet peeve is occurring more often in this dire economy, and it’s high time restaurants train their servers to better deal with it. Here’s the setup: You’re out for a nice dinner. You spend a long time reading the menu, deciding on what you’d like to eat. By the time the waiter takes [...]
The Little Tokyo Service Center, which provides assistance for victims of domestic violence and child abuse, as well as help with emergency food and shelter needs, has come up with a swell idea for this year’s fundraiser: Explore the mysteries of sake while inside CSI: The Experience, a temporary exhibit at the California Science Center. [...]
535 W. Valley Blvd., San Gabriel, 626.281.1226. L & D Thurs.-Tues. Chinese/noodles. No booze. MC, V. $ WHY The pleasure of the food coupled with the fun of watching the noodle master hopping on a wooden platform while holding a huge dough-draped bamboo pole in a fairly suggestive manner, using gravity to work the dough. [...]
We are all so very, very sad to hear that L.A.’s one and only cookbook store, Cook’s Library, will be going out of business at the end of April. And we’re not just saying that because EAT: Los Angeles and the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market Cookbook sold so well there. For the last twenty years [...]
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