My not-so-secret vice is a plate of baby back ribs and an order of the neon-orange garlic cheese bread at Burbank’s Smoke House Restaurant, but the price of that dinner has crept up in recent years. Happily, this Toluca Lake mainstay, founded in 1946, is currently offering some specials that make dinner out much more [...]
Good-value Sunday-night menus are all the rage in town, and it’s a trend we applaud — especially the one at Church & State in Downtown’s loft district. The prix-fixe menu is $39 a head for four courses, served in a way that allows for sampling a lot of good things. Three of us went last [...]
If we’re lucky, most of us get one, maybe two years of white truffles and $150 bottles of Champagne on Valentine’s Day before we settle into true love — and real life. (Actually, we’re quite fond of shitakes and $10 Prosecco.) But occasionally, we all get that sentimental longing for a romantic dinner on Valentine’s [...]
December 9, 1984. That’s the night Evan Kleiman opened Angeli Caffé on Melrose. We shouted our praises a few months ago, but if you still haven’t stopped by, Kleiman is sweetening the deal with a 25th anniversary celebration that lasts through the end of next year. As of December 1, you can grab a three-course [...]
We were happy indeed with a recent meal at Bacaro L.A., where tasty small-plate dishes are just $7. And we were happier to then discover that next time, if we just show up and order between 5 and 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday, we can have all the exact same dishes for a mere $5. [...]
Jim Brown grew up eating cheeseburgers at Sternberger’s Rite Spot, the famed diner where Pasadena short-order cook Lionel Sternberger claimed to have invented the cheeseburger in the 1920s. It may be a coin toss whether he was truly the first to smother cheese on a burger patty, but what Sternberger was really known for among [...]
A sandwich, salad or burger at La Grande Orange will set you back $8 to $14 — not exactly unusual for a Santa Monica lunch spot. But then there’s that $9 bag of giant house-made sourdough English muffins that you won’t be able to bike home without. The bargain hunter’s solution? The “cheap egg salad [...]
DineLA’s Restaurant Week has been extended another week (making it Restaurant Three Weeks), but one of the better deals in town right now is separate from that: Chaya‘s $25 anniversary menu. The original Chaya Brasserie is 25 years old (I’m sorry to say that I’m old enough to have gone there when it was brand [...]
Sometimes a deal is a meal for $5. But sometimes the deal is not the final price tag, but what you get for your investment. And make no mistake, investing $55 in dinner is an investment. But for that sum at the Tasting Kitchen, one of L.A.’s most exciting new restaurants, you get a four-course, [...]
We’re counting the days until the Park in Echo Park gets its beer and wine license (no more BYOB, because its license is pending), but to keep fans happy it’s got a hell of a deal on Wednesday nights: A six-ounce sirloin burger (or homemade veggie burger) with your choice of fries or salad for [...]
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