Plan Check Terry Heller’s Plan Check, bringing Steve Livigni and Pablo Moix to the Westside alongside contemporary U.S. comfort cooking from Umami Burger’s launch chef Ernesto Uchimura, has set an opening date. Expect Plan Check’s doors to be open on Wednesday, February 22nd, following friends-and-family runs this week. The new Little Osaka restaurant will be [...]
Clooney Next week, restaurants will rally around Valentine’s Day, but L.A.’s celebrity couples were already sitting down to the table together this week. George Clooney took his lovely lady wrestler to Dan Tana’s, smiling charmingly even as the cameramen stalked them. Jessica Alba and her husband shared shakes at Fatburger last night, while Zac Efron [...]
Baco time! Bäco Mercat kicks so much ass that even S. Irene Virbila admits she’s fond of the Downtown restaurant (but only in that two-and-a-half-stars kind of way). After fumbling her way through Skid Row, she asks “what’s not to like” about Josef Centeno’s new digs, continuing, “The food is gutsy and delicious, the prices [...]
Michael McCarty Did anyone foresee the day when we’d be getting six-dollar anything at Michael’s? Santa Monica’s original, moneyed farm-to-table restaurant is introducing a new all-evening happy hour this month that highlights a new menu of six-buck bites from chef John-Carlos Kuramoto and six-dollar drinks designed and executed by bar-raiser Jason Robey, who is growing [...]
King’s new grindz Torrance’s King’s Hawaiian Bakery and Restaurant is getting into the chocolate game, a timely move so near to Valentine’s Day. The South Bay complex is churning out a new line of $11.95 boxed bon bons made from single origin Hawaiian chocolate in two varieties, a milk chocolate bark and a classic spread [...]
Chaya offers eight different recipes that use the briny bi-valves After tackling venison last fall, Chaya Venice is continuing with its food fairs, now focusing on oysters. Starting Friday, February 16th, the restaurant is fixating on oysters, topping just about everything they have with the briny bivalves while infusing a few old-school supper club dishes [...]
Freida Pinto More powerful than a thousand Kim Kardashian Katsuya sightings, First Lady Michelle Obama came to L.A. this week to advocate for an affordable, healthy market in Inglewood. “Thousands of families will be able to buy fresh fruit right in their own community,” she told ABC, “and it sounds like a very simple thing, [...]
Tentori Chef Giuseppe Tentori, of Chicago’s Boka and highly praised GT Fish & Oyster, is coming to M.B. Post this month to kick off a new guest-chef and guest-farmer series called “Can You Dig It?” On February 24th, Tentori, a close friend and former co-worker of chef-owner David LeFevre, will prepare a three-course meal of [...]
24/7 party people Even at twice the size, the second location of Kitchen 24 is completely cute, with colorful, angular sculptures strafing the outdoor patio, tiny stencils of steaks and beer glasses on its windows, and the same cafeteria chic found at its Hollywood space, courtesy of Kristofer Keith and crew at Spacecraft. Currently soft-opened [...]
Even the logo is back! Last week we learned that Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger were taking us back to the eighties in their plutonium-powered DeLorean. Today the chefs reveal the highlights that will land on the menu Wednesday, February 9th at Downtown’s Border Grill. As suspected it’s a global grab-bag of dishes, starting [...]
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