Grrrrr…. The trickiest move you’ll have to make when the zombies break ground on their graves and run amok through L.A. (though we pray they’re going to be the slow, stupid kind) is the ability to supply yourself with food, water, ammo, booze, and something good to read while you remain holed up on the [...]
April 12, 2012 | Posted in
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Working on Facebook or the next Social Network? Or so we learn in the case of Atwater Village’s ten-year-old Kaldi Coffee and Tea, which gets a full exploration in the L.A. Times today. So while your neighborhood coffee shop is no doubt stocked with people who look as though they’re working on the next great [...]
April 11, 2012 | Posted in
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More hops due for Culver City Culver City’s location of Fraiche is soon to be taken over by the Public School concept that opened in Downtown more than a year ago under Grill Concepts LLC., the corporate company behind all those Grill on the Alleys and Daily Grills out there. Eater spies a booze application [...]
April 10, 2012 | Posted in
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Ismail Mohan To celebrate Songkran, or the three days of Thai New Year, RockSugar Pan Asian Kitchen chef Ismail Mohan is offering a sampler of four Thai desserts for parties dining here at lunch or dinner this Friday (the 13th), during a celebration with costumed Thai dancers and a traditional musician. Mohan is making his [...]
April 9, 2012 | Posted in
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Michelle Obama First Lady Michelle Obama was spotted off-duty from the food police this week, simply spending Saturday in the company of daughters Sasha and Malia over a bite at Enoteca Drago, working her shoulders over some heavy fork-lifting. And speaking of spending cherished moments with loved ones, Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez entertained some [...]
April 7, 2012 | Posted in
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Pizza at Lago D’Argento Barbarella Bar and Bugatta owner Anat Escher opened a small, casual slice of The Boot today on Silver Lake’s Hyperion Boulevard called Lago D’Argento Pizzeria. Like many recent Italian upstarts, D’Argento has Neapolitan pizzas tossed from its own homemade dough, along with dishes of duck sausage, meatballs al forno, and short [...]
April 6, 2012 | Posted in
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But then our lunch lady was never quite like this… Today Kogi, Chego, A-Frame, and Sunny Spot shotcaller Roy Choi walks The Daily Blender through a day-in-the-life of a red hot chef, over which he discusses L.A. restaurants’ puberty phase while pulling the cover back on his forthcoming book, Spaghetti Junction. Along the way, Choi [...]
April 5, 2012 | Posted in
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The Bruery On Monday, April 16th, Brooke Williamson and Nick Roberts’ Playa del Rey gastro-joint, The Tripel, is getting Orange County to haul some tipple to the table for its first birthday party. Suds-specialists from Placentia’s The Bruery will bring five of its scarcer, often uniquely-aged beers to the seaside over a $65 pre-fixe menu [...]
April 4, 2012 | Posted in
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Eagle Rock Militant Angeleno drops the word that a new restaurant called 5 Line is setting up shop on Colorado Blvd. in Eagle Rock. After taking a peek at the floor plans, the bellicose blogger notes that the aesthetic here is influenced by the ghost of public transportation past, based on the history of L.A.’s [...]
April 3, 2012 | Posted in
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Citrin, Mauis’ new burger king Honolulu Magazine reports the curious case of another one of L.A.’s French chefs in the midst of a new project on island shores, as Josiah Citrin, the chef and owner of Santa Monica’s two Michelin-starred Melisse, has reportedly opened Sure Thing Burger, a casual fast food stand in Lahaina, Maui. [...]
April 2, 2012 | Posted in
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