Joe Miller’s flagship restaurant in Venice recently joined the ranks of LA’s pre-fixe Sunday supper clubs with its three-course, $39 affair. To sweeten the deal, on Sundays there’s no corkage on your first two bottles (or go with the wine pairings for $18). If you’ve never been to Joe’s, that might not sound like the [...]
We’re very fond of the New School of Cooking. We say so right here. Summer is something of a lazy season for them, what with the heat and the heat and the heat. To mitigate the burn of sun and oven, they’re offering a salve—for your wallet. Register for the third or fourth session (beginning [...]
Walk into Anisette Brasserie in Santa Monica and you get the immediate sense that you should have strolled through the cherry-stained door to meet that pressed-tin ceiling and meticulously hand-tiled floor. Wearing Chanel khaki slacks. At dinner, you probably should, as that frisée aux lardons (frisée salad with pancetta, a drizzle of banyuls and a [...]
A free cookie—and on a Friday, no less—sounds more like your kids’ after-school treat than a pause-worthy restaurant deal. But that cookie at the new Santa Monica lunch spot, Bite Bar and Bakery, from caterer-turned-restaurateur Elizabeth Goel, is more of a generous slice-and-share affair. Like all of the cookies, her coconut-macadamia nut-dried mango version is [...]
No bones about it, the Tar Pit’s just-announced happy hour menu of drinks and snacks might ease your work-to-play transition beautifully. The sleek ’30s-supper-club-style bar-with-food, opened about six months ago by Campanile’s Mark Peel and Jay Perrin, offers a small selection of $6 classic cocktails (about half price) and a revolving “Aperitivo of the Week” [...]
In case you missed it (we almost did), it is officially American Craft Beer Week. Several bars around town are offering pint specials on brews from SoCal’s artisan producers, but the hands-down best deal we’ve found that features a diverse sipping selection — essential, because we are talking about craft beer — is at Blue [...]
One of our favorite special-occasion restaurants, Saddle Peak Lodge, is currently offering an amazing discount: 50% off any and all bottles of wine on its list on Thursday and Friday evenings. The lingering recession has led to many such discounts around town, but most are only offered on slow evenings (Monday or Tuesday), and often [...]
There’s a new wine shop in town — at least as far as your credit card bill is concerned. Plonk Wine Merchants may not have a Home Depot charge account, but owner Etty Lewensztain has racked up her share of start-up costs in web design and high-speed internet charges. After five post-college years in New [...]
Blame it on our nose-to-the-grindstone L.A. County health inspectors, who always seem to ferret out a food festival or suspicious food truck, or maybe it’s the traffic’s fault, but Los Angeles has never had its fair share of underground restaurants (we admittedly find it hard to imagine willfully eating in someone’s attic or basement after [...]
I remember very few childhood outings in the 1960s with my rather sickly grandfather Charlie, but I do remember Norms. For a rare treat he’d take a few of his many grandkids to the now-gone Norm’s in Los Feliz, and we thought it was just swell. Today 17 branches remain, most notably the parent in [...]
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