Axe owner Joanna Moore hasn’t quite put the kabosh on her Abbot Kinney restaurant, which still sits shuttered and masked by heavy plywood following a fire in August. Squid Ink counters speculation at Eater that the business might be done forever, although a cryptic comment from Moore herself doesn’t exactly clarify her plans. What is [...]
New York has a towering 70-foot-plus pine at Rockefeller Center, and L.A.’s getting a post-modern, fake-tree-art installation at the mall! This Saturday, from 6:00 to 7:00 P.M., Santa Monica Place will hold a lighting ceremony for a 50-foot, Christmas tree-shaped art piece with dancing lights. KCRW’s Jason Bentley will be spinning and Richard Sandoval’s Zengo [...]
Hiramasa Crudo Jamie Lauren, who boasts an average 105 on the Chicago Tribune’s Top Chef Power Ranking (compared with a 50 for today’s New York Diet subject Nikki Cascone) joined Marina del Rey gastropub Beechwood last month and added her own eclectic spin to the menu. Last night, we got a look at Lauren’s new [...]
It’s that yearly predicament with no shortage of promotions. But where, oh where, to celebrate the release of Beaujolais Nouveau today? Bacaro sends word that they’ve bought a motherload of bottles to rain Gamay down on the South Central wine bar tonight for just five dollars a glass. The party starts this afternoon at 5:00 [...]
Forget about being just a mere bistro/deli/market/wine bar/cocktail lounge/co-joined Hollywood dining destination. District and Mercantile won’t be happy until it has literally everything for everyone. To be fair, this concept is taking flight locally, with butchers in restaurants like Salt’s Cure and markets and bakeries expected as big components of forthcoming L’Epicerie and FarmShop. District’s [...]
The Raymond 1886, the new cocktail hub coming to Pasadena restaurant The Raymond, will open to the public tomorrow evening at 4:30 P.M. Drinks here have been designed by those superstar tenders of L.A. bars, Aidan Demarest and Marcos Tello, who have also trained the bartenders, part of the hands-on service you must get when [...]
Bartender extraordinaire David Wondrich has a new book on the history of punch Beverly Hills: Far Niente and Nickel and Nickel will hold a four-course wine dinner this Thursday and Friday nights for $99, with a menu by chef James Overbaugh. Reservations at 310-975 2736. [Grub Street] Century City: This Thursday, November 18th, from 6:00-10:00 [...]
Creme brulee: Breakfast of champions If you’re searching for breakfast on weekdays at 7:00 A.M. on Bunker Hill, our condolences, Bandini, you’re probably not going to find a coffee shop with a feisty waitress to sweep you off your feet. But Kendall’s Brasserie is taking the plunge into breakfast at that grim hour, plunking down [...]
Resisting the urge…almost L.A. Weekly, whose food blog Squid Ink is hitting the top of its game by giving us more of Elina Shatkin’s sharp prose, sometimes feels a little like those fascists-of-cool who come to punk/hip-hop/skate shows and lay down rules for how to keep it real. And yeah, they’re usually right. Yesterday, for [...]
In L.A., your vehicle might be an extension of your personality, a full-service cheap eats restaurant on wheels, or just something to get you to your favorite dim sum spot. In the case of 771 Food, which we spotted driving around town yesterday with the above teaser on its backside, it might even be an [...]
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