Last week, the food and restauranteur community of Los Angeles gathered at The Hollywood Roosevelt to celebrate the launch of the winter installment of Dine LA – a two-week-long collaborative effort to offer diners three-course lunches and dinners at six specific price points.
$ Deluxe Dining $16 $26
$$ Deluxe Dining $22 $34
$$$ Fine Dining $28 $44
The red carpet was [...]
Photo credit to Mountainderbygirls.org
Seen Whip-It but still haven’t gotten your fix? Miss the Thriller-choreographed party in Hollywood a few months back? Wanna celebrate Halloween in style but sick of breaking the bank? Look no further – LA’s Best Party on Wheels is going to be Thriller-themed on Halloween and costs only $5 with RSVP.
Complete with a [...]
Photo credit to elakerfan on Flickr
I’m going to New York next week. Though I’m very much a subway girl while there, there will be a lot of taxis – and at that, ones you can hail. I doubt any of us ever instructed anybody to “hail a cab” as a means of getting around Los [...]
If you’re an Eastsider and so much as wanted to have a neighborhood place to crash with a handful of small plates and glass of wine – you’re probably the kinda guy or gal Bill and Charles had in mind while launching their restaurant, Allston Yacht Club. They’re a pair of guys in entertainment who’ve [...]
You can find this look at lookbook.nu
but don’t expect to be able to wear it at Booby Trap
I’m telling you, the Open Bar website is a gem. With such important words like “booze,” “free” and “no cover” juxtoposed in each entry on the site – do you really have cause to complain?
They just don’t always [...]
There are tons of special event wine tastings that I’ve passed up, most likely because I was lazy or they sounded run-of-the-mill. But when I heard – thanks to Caroline – that Colorado Wine Co. in Eagle Rock was pairing wines up with ”white trash” foods, I couldn’t resist the opportunity. Unique and ingenious, I thought, in this [...]
I was at an engagement party over at The Parlor in Santa Monica a few weeks ago when I got “reacquainted with an acquaintance” from my UCLA days. We did the obligatory surfacey catch-up talk, which included where we lived now. He: West LA. Me: East of West LA. I told him my major cross-streets.
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It might have been my third or fourth year in a row helping out with the event–my memory serves me quite poorly. Then again, so has my mainstay in the Southern California VW-Audi scene. I dropped out of it no less than three years ago. But I do my part in staying true to my [...]
Sometimes, the good stuff just crams itself into the same weekend. Get a load of the upcoming fests. You can eat to your heart’s content and blast your ears out to their discontent … while basking in the sun or enjoying the cool summer breeze. Take your pick or mix and match.
I mean, if you even [...]
