Category Archives: Pasadena

The Terrace at Langham Pasadena Chinese New Year Brunch

Arguably the location of the best Chinese food on the West Coast, San Gabriel Valley neighbors Pasadena. Sometimes, though, you’re just in the mood for something a tad more posh, like cushioned wicker chairs with a garden view. Or a cheese plate. Or oysters on the half-shell. Or interesting small plates. Sometimes you’re just in the [...]

Dine LA Restaurant Week Launches Sunday

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 [...]

New Year, New Decade: The NYE Dinner-Party Round Up

Photo credit to Stephanie Hillberry on Flickr
It’s not even Christmas Eve but if New Year’s plans give you a fraction of the headache it gives me, you could use this list. Whether you’re simply looking for some celebration bubbly with the guys or gals or for a full-on (or not so full-on) dinner, I’ve got [...]

Twelve Days of Bubbly at Vertical Wine Bistro

Photo credit to Velo Steve on Flickr
Let’s start this countdown to Christmas, shall we? (That is – if you celebrate.) Starting this Saturday, the “Wine Dude” over at Vertical Bistro in Pasadena, David Haskell, will select a different sparkling wine every day (with the exception of Mondays) to be featured in the bar and lounge for just [...]

Dining Out To End Cancer

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 [...]

Breeder’s Cup Tweetup Today

Photo by Emilio Flores
It’s always good to expand your horizons. A couple weeks ago I was lucky enough to be invited to join a handful of really talented Los Angeles tech girlies in a photo shoot at the Santa Anita Race Track in celebration of the Breeder’s Cup social media push. I know zilch about [...]

Kicking off October: Beer, Wine, Music & Museums

Everybody probably knows even better than we do how we don’t really have a “fall” here in L.A. Seeing how September was frickin’ hot, and the temperatures have cooled down (before they warmed up again yesterday), I can say with confidence that fall, as Angelenos know it, is finally here. If weather won’t do it, [...]

Cabbin’ it in LA: It’s Text-a-Taxi

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 [...]

More of Michael Voltaggio at The Dining Room, The Langham Pasadena

Suckling pig, pistachio beans, onions, OJ, coriander
Michael Voltaggio embodies brave, bold cooking. There is no doubt that at the other end of the meal, your palate will have changed, been expanded and ultimately a different palate than before. It will be one more open to new ideas.
Just a glance at the tasting menu I had [...]

Brunch: It’s What’s For Dinner At La Grande Orange

Lemon Ricotta Hotcakes
How many times have we all visited a diner in the wee morning hours with the express intent of soaking up the previous night’s libations? Never mind that it was actually just hours before – the reason we order breakfast foods is at least partly because we can. Oh, you rebel, you. But [...]