Tag Archives: Century City

Hatchi With Chef Lauvand

September 22, 2009 – 8:24 am

Breadbar Century City does it again. Eight & eight – $8 each for 8 dishes that are seasonally inspired and as unique as the renowned chefs who design them. And for one night only it’s Remi Lauvand – formerly of Citrus at Social Hollywood and Le Cirque, La Grenouille, and Montrachet in NYC before that. This [...]

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Noriyuki Sugie & The Skinny Bitch Go Vegan at Breadbar

September 1, 2009 – 9:37 am

Photo credit to Sygyzy on Flickr
As Breadbar has been enjoying an infinite run of hosting nighttime, culinary one-off successes opposite their daytime operating hours – it was only a matter of time before Chef Noriyuki Sugie (of Tetsuya, Sydney and Asiate, NYC fame) had occasion to come back from his Crudo Bar stint. This time [...]

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I Ate the Eight: Hatchi With Michael Voltaggio

August 11, 2009 – 8:23 am

Japanese tomato tartare, green almonds, parmesan “overeasy,” tapenade powders
It was H.C. of LAOCFoodie who secured the reservation and I jumped on the Twitter call to secure my spot in the Hatchi craze that was – this time – Top Chef and James Beard Award finalist Michael Voltaggio. Other foodie counterparts present included Kung Food Panda, [...]

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Celebrating Obama on Election Night in L.A.

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 [...]

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