The bucolic lawn at Barnsdall Park. Make sure your toddler is fashionably dressed. Friday evening is the last night for Barnsdall Park wine tastings with Silver Lake Wine. If there’s a more mellow way to spend a Friday evening, I don’t know what it is. We took salami, gouda, bruschetta and biscotti, but you could [...]
Last December, Rush Street told Grub Street (cuz the streets do talk) about plans to open a new pub-centric microwbrew-house in Culver City. The stated mid-2010 opening has come and gone, but Eater pin-pointed the location, announcing the owners’ take-over of the old Double Dutch Dinette space on Washington, just a few blocks west of [...]
Chances are very few of us will ever get the opportunity to dine at the The James Beard House. Forget the fact that it’s three thousand miles away in New York’s Greenwich Village; even if…
Today’s Column One is a must-read: Refugees from such places as Bhutan, Myanmar and Somalia – all fleeing some form of strife and all looking for a way to fit in — have found a home at a rural Oregon dairy in need of workers. Photo: Ahmed Omar tours his new workplace at Threemile Canyon Farms near Boardman, Ore. [...]
Clifford Wright was a judge at KCRW’s first pie contest. On this PieCast, he offers some suggestions to this year’s entrants. Tracy Rapp is the editor of Simply Southern With a Dash of Kosher Soul with Dena Wruble.
This recipe from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen for Iced Vietnamese coffee would be nice and refreshing on such a hot day. – Rene LynchTwitter.com / renelynch Photo: Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times
If you already swapped your LP collection for a few cocktails at The Andaz, a refuge for vinyl connoisseurs still awaits at Bacaro. This Sunday at 10:00 P.M., the West Adams wine bar is starting a late-night “Cork and Wax Record Club.” Planned monthly, guests are invited to bring their records for Happy Independent Thoughts [...]
There are few experiences more frustrating than attempting to redeem the contents of a gift card and being turned down. Restaurants, both of high caliber and quick service variety, are g…
With so many great cocktail destinations in Los Angeles these days, we thought a short list of our farmers’ market favorites for summer was in order. Much to our happy-hour delight, we discovered there are far too many to list. Here’s a start. Ciudad Long before farmers-market cocktails became so trendy, Mary Sue Milliken and [...]
Egg hopper from Priyani Priyani Dissanayake was winning over foodies from all over town in her tiny Northridge Cafe after a glowing write-up in the L.A. Times last year. But restaurants are a tough business, and Priyani Oriental Cafe, one of only a few Sri Lankan restaurants in L.A., closed up shop recently. Bill Esparza [...]
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