Category Archives: West L.A.

The Dim Sum Truck: For Your Fix In Metro LA

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I was in Westwood without a car and without access to any of the great Chinese food I had been hearing about. I have fond memories mooching rides all the way to Monterey Park for the sole purposes of late night, greasy Chinese cafe food and pre-Boba Explosion Era boba [...]

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 [...]

Pitfire Pizza Brings Delicious Artisan Pies West

Edit (1/22/10): Eater LA reports that due to the rain, the opening has been postponed to January 30 (or even later)!!
Set to officially open on January 23, 2010 is the 4th installment of Pitfire Pizza, featuring artisan pizzas hand-crafted with the freshest, finest ingredients – some of which are grown in their very own garden [...]

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 [...]

Mad Hatter Wine Pairing

Sure, Halloween is over – but there are still plenty other reasons to get festive!
Dean Hewitson, known as the “Mad Hatter” of Hewitson Wines, will be visiting Los Angeles tomorrow from South Australia on his U.S. tour celebrating the debut of his limited-release 2006 vintage Mad Hatter Shiraz.
There will be a wine reception followed by [...]

Saturday in LA Beer Week

Today: If you’re not in Mammoth snowboarding or skiing for free, you’ll want to poke your head into the nearest Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and retrieve your complimentary pumpkin iced latte or iced blended between 4-7 PM. And if you are a pre-fan of the movie or love Arcade Fire, pick up the Where the Wild Things [...]

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 [...]

Barbrix, Beats, LeBowski, Beerfloats and Bigfoot

Bigfoot West
Let me go off-the-cuff for a minute. I love Los Angeles. There is something different to do every day of the week in this city and if you really wanted to, you could go without having to repeat yourself for a few years. You realize these things when you go out of town, y’see. [...]

Origins Recycles

Ever wonder how much space all those makeup containers take up in landfills – but also how easy it would be just to recycle them? About time! I wanted to alert you ladies (and ultra fashionable men) that Origins will be kicking off their makeup container recycling program on Thursday with an event at their [...]

Celebrating Obama on Election Night in L.A.

It’s hard for me to put into words the emotion that has surrounded this entire Presidential campaign.
Obama referenced Dr. King’s term, “the fierce urgency of now” when he announced his candidacy. And maybe not in so many words, but that was the essence of what I felt when I knew I had to do something [...]