Spaghettini – Huffington Post
Spaghettini – Hot Food & Cool Music in Beverly Hills! Missing from the bustling Los Angeles scene for too long has been the presence of fine dining allied with cool music (preferably jazz.) Yes, we have Herb Alpert’s wonderfulVIBRATO up on Mulholland, along with a few hit-or-miss places in Hollywood, but here on the West […]
Ledlow – Los Angeles Times
Review: At Ledlow, Josef Centeno is serious about American cuisine When people ask about the modern way of eating in Los Angeles, the succession of wildly variant small plates followed perhaps by a big, shared platter of meat, I sometimes refer them to Josef Centeno, who got the style started here when he was chef […]
The Whisper Lounge – TimeOut LA
The Whisper Restaurant & Lounge The basics of classic American cuisine—steak, mac and cheese, pork chop—can be found at The Whisper Restaurant, a contemporary eatery and lounge inside The Grove. But classic doesn’t mean boring. Here, you’ll also find Florida gulf shrimp and butternut squash ravioli paired with expertly crafted cocktails, like a Miracle Mule […]
Froma on Melrose – LA Weekly
Froma on Melrose Froma is a small gourmet wine and food shop on Melrose Avenue in the Fairfax district. Canadian born sommelier and owner Francine Diamond offers excellent wine options and an even better small bites menu that showcases low-cost gourmet happy hour dishes: Parmesan and herb-dusted fries, two-ounce Kobe beef burger sliders with mixed […]
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 […]
The Stave – LA Weekly
THE STAVE WINE AND BEER BAR OPENS TONIGHT: WHERE EVERYBODY IN LONG BEACH KNOWS YOUR NAME “What’s this going to be?” a passerby yells into the cavernous, under-construction site at the corner of Broadway and Downtown Long Beach’s Promenade. “Not a chain, I hope.” Two weeks before the doors roll up and any Pilsner is […]
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 […]
Fred 62 – LA Weekly
BEST SOUL, FOOD: FRED 62 Like a cleft apricot, the logo of Fred 62 diner sits above a stretch of Vermont Avenue pavement in Los Feliz, where the smoking, chattering masses talk too much and too, like, loud as they ease your suffering soul. These are the outdoor tables, at which alcohol is not served, […]