Gjelina – TimeOut LA

Best brunch restaurants in Los Angeles: Burgers Brunch restaurants in Los Angeles get meaty (and messy) with two-fisted burgers that are being served weekend mornings. It’s a widespread belief that brunch is the remedy to last night’s debauchery. We like to agree—and take it one indulgence further with our list of LA’s best brunch burgers. […]

Factory Kitchen – Zagat

Factory Kitchen Brings More Italian Food to DTLA A new Italian restaurant with a couple of big names behind it will debut at the Factory Place Lofts in the Arts District this week. Chef Angelo Auriana (Valentino) and Matteo Ferdinandi (Drago Centro) plan to soft open Factory Kitchen on Thursday, October 24, bringing rustic Italian […]

Dragon Herbs – Vogue Magazine Paris

The old Californian chic Angela Lindvall – also kundalini yoga teacher supermodel – is a fan of this Zen emporium with a health elixirs boosters bar.It was created by the renowned herbalist Ron Teeguarden and features over 1,000 formulas to strengthen the immune system. Consultations are free for all ills to cure by plants. But […]

Orsa & Winston – LA Times

Josef Centeno dishes on Orsa & Winston, his new 33-seat restaurant in downtown L.A. Josef Centeno is only a few inspections away from his return to fine dining withOrsa & Winston in downtown Los Angeles. The 33-seat restaurant is set to debut on Sept. 24 with an exclusive five-day run for a special MasterCard preview, […]

Plan Check, Nong LA Vietnamese Cafe & Seoul Sausage – TimeOut Los Angeles

LA city guide: Eating and drinking along Sawtelle Boulevard Check out the best eating and drinking on Sawtelle Boulevard with our LA city guide to the the area’s new wave of restaurants. Downtown’s Little Tokyo may have a 75-year headstart on Sawtelle Boulevard, the West LA enclave between Olympic and Santa Monica Boulevards known as […]

Bludso’s BBQ – LA Weekly

BLUDSO’S BBQ ON LA BREA OPENS TODAY: BRISKET, RIBS + MINT JULEPS ON TAP For all of you who make the regular trek down to Bludso’s in Compton for, perhaps, the sole purpose of eating Kevin Bludso’s justly celebrated barbecue, you can cut down on your carbon footprint (although maybe not that of Bludso himself; […]

Bäco Mercat – TimeOut Los Angeles

Bäco Mercat What started as a happy-hour snack has grown into one of the hottest, most relevant restaurants in town. Chef Josef Centeno’s first solo venture captures not only the zeitgeist of Downtown’s white-hot dining but also the incredible multiculti spirit of Los Angeles at large. Located in the Old Banking District, just around the […]

Haute Chefs LA – Haute Living

Jeffrey Nimer’s Haute Chefs L.A Caters to J.Lo Rupert Murdoch and You Classically French trained chef Jeffrey Nimer has spent the last 15+ years experimenting and creating scrumptious recipes and winning accolades in the world of food. With his signature French and California-Mediterranean specialties, Nimer has vast experience in the food realm– having opened the […]

Froma on Melrose – LA Weekly

HAPPY HOUR GOES SERIOUSLY GOURMET AT FROMA ON MELROSE Traditionally, Happy Hour hasn’t been the best time for gastronomes to find appealing early evening snacks. But at Froma, a small gourmet wine and food shop on Melrose Avenue in the Fairfax district, the Happy Hour menu offers plenty of stellar options. “We wanted to bring […]

Wurstkuche – LA Weekly

IN THE WURST WAY: DOWNTOWN’S WURSTKUCHE SERVES UP BOHEMIA ON A TOASTED ROLL There may be no more universal pleasure in the world of meat than a well-made sausage plucked straight from the fire, filmed with a bubbling mantle of grease, and thrust at you when it is still so hot that you bobble it […]