Bacon and beer popcorn This coming Tuesday, Next Door by Josie will celebrate its first year by offering diners who order one of their big plates (remember those?) a free bucket full of its beer and bacon caramel popcorn. The restaurant was recently credited with bringing L.A. the first of many bacon-y popcorns to come [...]
Book of Mormon Broadway’s record-busting musical Book of Mormon is coming to The Pantages Theater in Hollywood next week and Wood & Vine, located right across the street, is getting in on the funny. The restaurant is offering a pun-packed, pre-show prix-fixe for $25 every night of the show’s run, from 5:00 to 7:00 P.M. [...]
The “Chopurrito” bowl Salad-centric Chop Stop, which has so far thrived in two Valley locations, opened up in the big city on Saturday, and plans its grand-opening ribbon-cutting ceremony here in West Hollywood, planned at 6:00 P.M. this Tuesday. The event will be attended by owner Mark Kulkis, along with WeHo mayor Jeffrey Prang, and [...]
Prince Harry at Gjelina, imagined This week, Yo! Venice! spied everyone’s favorite bottomless ginger du jour, Prince Harry, grabbing a bite at Gjelina on Abbot-Kinney, offering us this classic PhotoShopped interpretation of what that might have looked like, had he lost another round of strip poker, perhaps sitting on a milk crate in the restaurant’s [...]
Fresh Brothers Family-owned pizza chain Fresh Brothers, which got its start in The South Bay and has big plans to spread throughout L.A. after getting a hot cash infusion last June, is opening its new Brentwood store this Friday at 11:00 A.M., replacing Freshii on San Vicente. The restaurant offers deep-dish and U.S.-style pizza pies, [...]
Gavin Mills’ fried chicken If Southern chef Brandon Boudet can tackle U.K. eats at Tom Bergin’s, it would only be fair to let British chef Gavin Mills to take on Southern cooking at Wood & Vine. Every Sunday, Mills is going down home on Hollywood, offering a showcase of a different Southern state each month. [...]
Pier Burger Beverly Hills: D.C.’s Georgetown Cupcakes is bringing its designer sweets to Beverly Hills in October. [GS] Brentwood: Fresh Brothers is awaiting word on its inspections today. If it passes, expect an opening this Thursday. [GS] Citywide: After telling us which restaurants may make our ears bleed, Betty Hallock drops some suggestions for restaurants [...]
Bacon-wrapped duk at LaOn dining Two side-by-side shutters we really hate to see have arrived in the the closings of LaOn Dining and its sister, Don Dae Gam, as reported by Squid Ink. LaOn’s progressive Korean menu, of which we went cuckoo for the rainbow skirt of fish eggs and uni topping a stone hot [...]
Douglas the Younger Gwyneth Paltrow paid a visit to Tavern in Brentwood this week, choosing to go au naturale sans a lick of makeup, which of course had the intended effect of generating major media coverage due to the dire importance of things like this on the world stage. In other celebrity dining news, singer [...]
Show at Barre Tonight, FShow at Barre rallies again at Rockwell: Table & Stage in Los Feliz for a new month-long musical review of contemporary film soundtracks. This month, the brigade is reveling in the films of John Hughes, sure to stoke any eighties baby with songs and scenes torn from such classics as The [...]
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