Gale Kohl, owner of the eponymous Gale’s Restaurant in Pasadena, and her friends have put together a quietly remarkable fundraising night, A Taste of Art, for the past  few years. The bustling Italian restaurant is transformed overnight into an art gallery, with dozens of works for sale at eminently reasonable prices. The parking lot is tented to hold [...]
Every year most of L.A.’s best chefs gather in a park in Culver City to feed needy children — but they do it by feeding those who can afford to pony up for a tasting fundraiser, and all the money goes to Share Our Strength, a national organization devoted to ending childhood malnutrition and hunger. [...]
With the success of the city of L.A.’s prix-fixe restaurant week promotions, Old Pasadena is jumping on the bandwagon, launching what is intended to be the first annual Old Pasadena Restaurant Week. Running from June 1 through 8, the program gets restaurants to offer go0d-value, three-course prix fixe meals, to inspire people to get out [...]
If you, like us, can never get your fill of moussaka, spanakopita, kalamata olives, gyros and baklava, and if seeing My Big Fat Greek Wedding 47 times hasn’t tired you of saying, “Opa!” over and over, then you’ll want to spend a Memorial weekend afternoon or evening at the annual Valley Greek Festival, an impressive [...]
There’s much exhibit in Topanga this week, as locals get ready for the launch of the Topanga Canyon Certified Farrmers’ Market. No longer will residents of this isolated bit of mountain paradise have to drive down to Santa Monica for their Lily’s eggs, Weiser Family Farm melons and Santiago Farms berries. The market will take [...]
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” [...]
Café Pinot‘s popular and personable executive chef, Kevin Meehan, is returning to Venice’s St. Joseph Center to teach a class called Learn How to Prepare an Elegant, Seasonal Meal. Proceeds from the cooking class go to support St. Joseph’s Culinary Training Program, a ten-week vocational class designed to help unemployed men and women get job [...]
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 [...]
Attention South Bay locals: If you love seeking out, eating, making and/or talking about good food and drink, please join us at the wonderful new bookstore Pages in Manhattan Beach on Wednesday night. Several of the EAT: Los Angeles team, including Linda Burum, Miles Clements, Amelia Saltsman and Colleen Dunn Bates, will be on hand [...]
EAT: LA’s relationship with the KPCC show Off-Ramp deepened this week with the launching of a new podcast. Host John Rabe will be regularly posting new EAT: LA/Off-Ramp podcasts, chatting with one of our team of savvy food journalists about L.A.’s best resources for food lovers. You can read his post and hear the podcast [...]
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