Thanks to our friend Kim Ohanneson for passing on the news about one of our favorite vegetarian restaurants: Angelenos, get ready to speed dial. After a decade of delighting Angelenos with high-end vegan and vegetarian fare paired with fine wines, Fatty & Co.’s will close its doors for an unspecified amount of time, Eat/Drink/See Eagle Rock [...]
As the memorable, not so memorable or hazy memories of the New Year recede to the morning’s challenge of getting out of bed, focus on what's truly important … food. Don't bother getting side-tracked by changing out of your pajamas on New Year's Day, because La Grande Orange is dishing out certificates equal to [...]
In the beer world, a bartender’s prowess is arguably determined by his/her mastery of the black and tan, a pale ale topped with a stout or other dark beer. It’s harder than it looks — ju…
Susan Feniger’s Street has a lunch deal going through this Friday that might be worth venturing outside and (gasp!) driving with our fellow Angelenos in the rain. All lunch items at Street are available for only ten-dollars this week. And it’s just water, guys, you’re not Gremlins, it won’t hurt you. [Check out Street's lunch [...]
Oh brother. You waited until the Very. Last. Minute. to do your holiday shopping. No worries. Here's a roundup of suggested holiday gift ideas, including measuring spoons. (You think that's too dinky for a gift? Every cook we know would love the luxury of having several sets. This set cost us $2.59. You could buy [...]
Dear Mr. Gold: I have a group of my best friends flying in from Alabama, and we’re all staying in Santa Monica. I never go to the Westside for anything, so I am looking for some dinner reco…
If you look past the hype and the fame, the new Wolfgang’s Steakhouse is just a great classic American steakhouse, says exilekiss. First thing: This has nothing to do with Wolfgang Puck. The man in charge is Wolfgang Zwiener, former head waiter at New York’s beloved Peter Luger. It’s classic steakhouse style through and through, [...]
Dog Haus has plenty of seating, and a parking lot in back Pasadena is a lovely town in many ways, most of them historic and a bit stodgy. But the food scene is changing fast with the arrival of places like Intelligentsia Coffee, Daisy Mint, Cham Korean Bistro, Slaw Dogs and now another doggery, Dog [...]
L.A. Tex-Mex stalwart Casa Escobar is expanding to a new location in Westlake Village in the first part of January. Escobar has had some mixed success around town, maintaining a presence here since the forties, having a Malibu location closed due to fire (later reopened), and closing a depot in Marina del Rey. We’re not [...]
In a world where we get garlic from China, shellfish from Thailand and sugar cane from Mexico, Congress is poised to approve an ambitious food safety bill that would strengthen the nation's top regulator and impose new rules on domestic production and trading partners. The legislation is aimed at preventing tainted food from entering the [...]
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