February 26, 2010 – 4:26 pm
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 [...]
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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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 15, 2010 – 10:38 am
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 [...]
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Tagged artisan pizza, Culver City, los angeles, Pitfire Pizza, pizza, preview, salads, soft opening, vegetables, Westside
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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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Tagged 20% off, Dining Out to End Cancer, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Savings card, UCLA
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November 2, 2009 – 7:10 am
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 [...]
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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Tagged 777222, cab, GoFastCab, los angeles, taxi, text messaging, Yellow Cab
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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 [...]
November 6, 2008 – 7:03 am
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 [...]
