Following the success of DineLA’s restaurant weeks in February, many of the restaurants in and around Old Pasadena are taking part in Old Pasadena Restaurant Week, from June 1 to 8. Not only is each place offering a good-value fixed-price menu, but each is donating ten percent of proceeds to Union Station Homeless Services, whose [...]
WHY For cocktails you won’t find at the corner bar — really good ones.
WHAT Cocktail guru Vincenzo Marianella’s Promenade-adjacent lounge feels like a cozy Manhattan bar, thanks to its weathered brick walls, French-mod leather wingbacks, well-coiffed bartenders and big-city prices. If you want to spend $11 for a gin and tonic here, that’s your business, but [...]
Here’s our short list of post-holiday-weekend reading for hungry folks:
• Our friend Adrienne Crew just posted an engaging interview with one of L.A.’s smartest food writers, Amy Scattergood. Read it here on L.A. Observed.
• Miles Clements reports on the “underappreciated” Holland Festival in Long Beach, which was rich with Indonesian food: Daily Dish
• Seeing Squid [...]
700 S. Grand Ave., Downtown, 213.802.1470. B Sat.-Sun., L & D daily. Italian. Full bar. AE, MC, V. $$ – $$$$ WHY Crisp, puffy-edged pizzas, delicious salads and seemingly hundreds of fun small plates. WHAT In a vast, open space with white marble floors, white walls and a white ceiling way up high, an army [...]
Thanks to the Chowhounds, Yelpers and L.A.’s vast army of food bloggers (yes, guilty as charged), it’s next to impossible to pop into a new restaurant these days without any preconceived notions. But that’s exactly what happened last weekend when I was shopping the Montana Avenue sidewalk sale. Note to self: Crazy deals draw crazy, or [...]
We’re sorry to hear from our friend Pat at Eatingla.com that Jean-Pierre Bosc’s Mimosa, which has been our go-to traditional French bistro for years, is closing. It’s nice to hear that talented chef Laurent Quenioux is taking over the space, but still, our hearts are heavy to say goodbye to Mimosa and its frisée salad [...]
If you, like us, can never get your fill of moussaka, spanakopita, kalamata olives, gyros and baklava, and if seeing My Big Fat Greek Wedding 47 times hasn’t tired you of saying, “Opa!” over and over, then you’ll want to spend a Memorial weekend afternoon or evening at the annual Valley Greek Festival, an impressive [...]
2716 N. San Fernando Rd., Eagle Rock/Glassell Park, 323.225.0044; 2260 N. Lincoln Ave., Altadena, 626.296.9311. Open daily.
WHY Low prices, good service, impeccable housekeeping and an unusual combination of mainstream American supermarket goods and a dazzling array of international foods. WHAT In 1993, the Fermanian family opened an unusual supermarket in Anaheim and over time found great success, [...]
“Are you more of a sour or floral cocktail person?” asked Gus, our squeezably cute Aussie bartender at Copa D’Oro, cocktail guru Vincenzo Marianella’s Santa Monica lounge that debuted in January. “What about rosemary, tangerine?”
And so continued the cat-and-mouse game, until Gus settled on a drink that he’d like to make for us. That’s pretty [...]
It’s rush hour at Grand Central Italian — aka Bottega Louie — and the energy is electric. After-work professionals hoping to land a table in the restaurant run into friends at the bar/café or at the vast and dazzling takeout counter. Hancock Parkers meet pals from Pasadena, perhaps before a show at the Music Center, or [...]
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