It was a special night at The Foundry on Melrose, and the occasion would be my long-delayed first visit to the restaurant. After all, this is where a lot of the LA comfort food scene originated – Chef Eric Greenspan (2008 Grilled Cheese Invitational winner and once-Iron Chef contestant) plans to open a grilled cheese-only [...]
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Also posted in Events, Food
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Tagged Bluesy Tuesday, chicken, chicken showdown, Eric Greenspan, fried chicken, Krissy Lefebvre, Ludo Lefebvre, Melrose, The Foundry, The Foundry on Melrose
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February 1, 2010 – 8:16 am
I had been meaning to try out Cube, on La Brea, for awhile now. I’ve consistently heard good things about the cafe doubling as a market and though it’s located next to The Tar Pit – which has been open only a few months yet I’ve managed to visit three times, already – I knew I was [...]
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Also posted in Deals, Food, Hollywood
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Tagged bacon, blueberry crepe, braised oxtail ragu, Cube, Cube LA, Cube Marketplace, Cube Marketplace & Cafe, Dine LA, Italian, L.A., la brea, los angeles, maple braised bacon, market, Meyer Lemon Lemon Meringue Cake, prix fixe, ravioli, ricotta, truffle burger
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January 25, 2010 – 4:17 pm
There are few Italian restaurants that strike me as having an authentic charm it can call its own. But now that I’ve been introduced to to the hospitality and cuisine of Marino – I can now point to a place that prides itself as much on attentive service as its food. Great conversation and the freshest ingredients: I can only describe it [...]
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Also posted in Food, Hollywood, Santa Monica
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Tagged baked artichokes, branzino, Il Grano, Italian, Italian cuisine, los angeles, maccheroncini, Maria Marino, Marino, Marino Ristorante, Mario Marino, Melrose, Neopolitan, restaurant, ricotta cheesecake, risotto, Sal Marino, Sinatra steak, Southern Italian, veal
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January 20, 2010 – 11:18 am
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 [...]
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Also posted in Beverly Hills, Central L.A., Century City, Culver City, Deals, Downtown LA, East LA, Echo Park, Events, Food, Hancock Park, Highland Park, Hollywood, L.A., Malibu, Mid-Town, Miracle Mile, Pasadena, San Fernando Valley, Silver Lake, South Bay, South LA, Studio City, Venice, West Hollywood, West L.A., Westwood, cocktails, eagle rock, robertson
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Tagged Cube LA, Dine LA, DineLA family tree, Dinner, Eva, Hollywood, launch party, lunch, Palate, Petrossian, prix fixe, restaurants, Roosevelt Hotel
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January 8, 2010 – 9:24 am
All good things – that require discipline – come to an end. That is, in my case, anyway; I had dabbled in Macrobiotics all but a week a few years ago before deciding that my palate wasn’t committed and my budget wasn’t copious. It’s not as if I didn’t agree with the basic theories behind the [...]
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Also posted in Beverly Hills, Culver City, Food
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Tagged Beverly Hills, Brighton Way, culinary philosophy, Culver City, deli salad, Food, Healthful, Little m, M Cafe, Macrobiotics, Melrose, salads
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November 9, 2009 – 12:02 pm
Ready to dine out for a good cause?
Buy a Dining Out to End Cancer card for $25 and for the month of November, get 20% off the entire check – excluding alcohol, tax and gratuity – at participating restaurants.
Proceeds from the sale of Dining Out to End Cancer cards will support highest priority cancer research at [...]
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Also posted in Beverly Hills, Deals, Downtown LA, Food, Hollywood, L.A., Mid-Town, Miracle Mile, Pasadena, San Fernando Valley, West L.A.
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Tagged 20% off, Dining Out to End Cancer, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Savings card, UCLA
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October 1, 2009 – 9:15 am
It’s that time, again. Time to get excited for the temperatures to get (a tad) chillier and the snow rain to fall - just because we know the rain is snow where we go. Yeah. This is L.A., home of the Mountain High or Bear Mountain park punks and Mammoth Mountain weekend warriors. I’m one of [...]
September 4, 2009 – 9:41 am
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 [...]
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Also posted in Beverly Hills, Central L.A., Century City, Culver City, Downtown LA, East LA, Echo Park, Hollywood, Koreatown, L.A., Mid-Town, Miracle Mile, Pasadena, San Diego, San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Valley, Santa Monica, Silver Lake, South Bay, Studio City, Traffic, Venice, West Hollywood, West L.A.
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Tagged 777222, cab, GoFastCab, los angeles, taxi, text messaging, Yellow Cab
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August 5, 2009 – 10:48 am
Off the bat: The Groundlings are hilarious. They’ve earned their reputation – and I’d be hard-pressed to find skits and improv of this caliber anywhere else in town. Complete with a live, spritely 3-piece band providing remixed and rearranged classics as set change music, your senses are titillated for a full 2 hours at “Space [...]
October 24, 2008 – 7:19 am
Not only do I have a big head, I have big feet too. And exactly one year after buying my non-Uggs-brown boots, I have a boot purchase experience where that fact became all the more obvious.
It’s not like I need a reminder. My 5′10″ blonde best girlfriend named Christina and I can swap shoes. I’m [...]
