A couple weeks ago, I was invited to attend a special friends and family Top Chef viewing party in honor of Amanda Baumgarten. Now, you can get a piece. Whether you’re a Top Chef fanatic or someone who can appreciate Water Grill’s spectacular food, you will want to pop in for this real-time, downtown dining [...]
Engage her only a little, because you might get her worked up. Leave soon, before you find her trying too hard to keep you there. Know her for her strengths, be cautious of her weaknesses – of which there are many. If there were a list of those weaknesses, it would be the majority of [...]
I can always use a lesson in single malt Scotch – it’s a chance to widen my experience and palate, and let’s face it: I’m partial to it. A few weeks ago, I tried Balblair – the distillery of which dates back to 1749 – for the first time. So did many other Americans since [...]
In the case of the downtown hot spot (and once-underground) Starry Kitchen, it would be useless to do a dish-by-dish, plate-by-plate review as is protocol for food blogging, these days. Thank God. Because I would pick a constantly-changing (evolving, if you will) menu that focuses on a few dishes at a time over a huge [...]
I’ve had my fair share of envy of weekday Downtown LA lunch options. There’s good news, though, because now I can get one of those famous, delicious Mendocino Farms sandwiches for dinner! Opening from 11 AM – 7 PM, Monday through Friday, the 444 S. Flower Street location will also now offer parking validation between [...]
Do you work downtown or will be in the area for lunchtime this week? Looking for a way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day this week without so much as touching a green beer? Now there’s another reason to stop by the notoriously delicious Mendocino Farms for your mid-day refueling. Chef and partner Betty Han has [...]
It can’t be the easiest time to open a restaurant. While everyone else downsizes, Josef Centeno and Michael Cardenas take the opportunity to fill a niche in Little Tokyo. The aim would be to create a neighborhood canteen. That is, a watering hole with inventive yet casual plates at which you could count on to be [...]
