New Federal Bar in Long Beach The Knitting Factory’s Federal Bar gave a gloss to North Hollywood’s Arts Districts when it opened in early 2011, endowing The Valley neighborhood with a farmers market-y gastropub of its own, along with live music and variety acts. Yesterday, Federal Bar stretched out to its second location, taking over [...]
May 17, 2013 | Posted in
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Stanky tofu The smell of fried, fermented, stinky tofu will be wafting through the air on Sunday, as Monterey Park holds its 15th Annual Taiwanese American Heritage Festival. Though the all-day festivities include such things as ho-lin lion dances, hand puppets, a beauty contest, and the raffling off of a Jeremy Lin-signed basketball, you’re really [...]
May 16, 2013 | Posted in
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Mariscos La Guerrerense, the champion at last year’s Street Food Fest Shawna Dawson’s annual L.A. Street Food Fest is returning next month for the fourth year, coming back to The Rose Bowl on June 29. The event is being held a month earlier than years past to beat the summer heat while organizers are announcing [...]
May 16, 2013 | Posted in
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If this cabana is rocking, don’t come a-knocking. From Soho House to The Peninsula, an lofty paradise of pampered elites hovers high above the pedestrians of Beverly Hills. This Sunday, May 19, the SLS Hotel will back this privileged pack by re-opening its own rooftop pool deck, Altitude, for some summer sunbathing, price-gouging, and come [...]
May 15, 2013 | Posted in
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Bring it on. Citywide: Unemployed Eater looks at L.A.’s five “most craveable burgers,” including a grass-fed beauty at Cooks County and a lesser known classic at Haven Gastropub. [UE] –Krista Simmons hits the juice hard this week. [LAist,/a>}Culver City: Thierry Perez closed L'Epicerie, the French market, wine bar, and cafe concept he opened two and [...]
May 14, 2013 | Posted in
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Chi-Lin Chi Lin, the sister restaurant coming next door to IDG’s RivaBella, opens this afternoon on the West Hollywood-Beverly Hills border. Much like RivaBella offered a bigger, flashier stage for chef Gino Angelini’s rustic Italian cooking, Chi Lin is providing a showcase for the kind of glammy Hong Kong cuisine favored by restaurateur, playwright, and [...]
May 13, 2013 | Posted in
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ENORMous tragedy for The Westside Norm’s, L.A.’s 64-year-old diner chain, is losing a jewel in its crown. The Santa Monica link and its Googie signage are being snatched off of Lincoln after 49 years, along with a Denny’s and Antique Mart, sold by the family-owned operation to clear the way for yet more mixed-use retail [...]
May 10, 2013 | Posted in
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“Your mind is gone, your brain is blazed,” get thee to happy hour! The M.O. of most Manhattan Beach happy hours is fairly simple: Get ‘em in, get ‘em pickled, and get ‘em out. Circa is being a little more structured and selective for its new afternoon drinking deal, to be known as The “5′ [...]
May 9, 2013 | Posted in
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Tin Vuong Can’t-stop-don’t-stop chef Tin Vuong and Jed Sanford, the duo behind Hermosa Beach’s restaurant and brewery Abigaile and Culver City’s impressive new WildCraft Sourdough Pizza, are planning a new 50-seat restaurant right across the street from M.B. Post and new Fishing With Dynamite in the former Hamptons space. Debuting sometime before or in early [...]
May 9, 2013 | Posted in
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The future Urban Radish By the end of the month, far-east Downtown will be graced with a much-needed resource, as well as another certain sign of success for its recent residential experiment and ensuing explosion. A new 8,200-square-foot grocery store named Urban Radish is opening on Mateo Street on May 29, getting the jump on [...]
May 8, 2013 | Posted in
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