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New York has given LA a lot of grief over the years. But now they’re giving us a Shake Shack. So, all good. Yes, Shake Shack, Danny Meyer’s not-at-all-un-famous hub for burgers and shakes, is opening tomorrow in West Hollywood. Here’s the slideshow and the menu. If you’ve gone to the original, then you’ll come here to re-savor those Angus burgers and
If you’re reading this, it means you've survived St. Patrick's Day. Well done. Here’s an entirely new Ammo for your troubles. It’s called Ammo To Go, and it's a quicker incarnation of the old Highland spot where you’ll get in, get out and find yourself holding a steak sandwich as a result. It opened today, here’s what it looks like and here's the
Teach a man to fish and you... Eh. Just send them to Cape Seafood and Provisions instead, a lovely sliver of a seafood market from the chef behind Providence and Connie & Ted’s. It’s opening Wednesday on Fairfax, here’s the slideshow, and here’s the menu. While you were pouring some out for the dearly departed Lindy & Grundy, Michael Cimarusti was
Looks like you’re staying indoors this weekend. Not because of the rain. Probably not because of Obamajam, either. It’s more on account of all the beers and brisket pizzas. Get thee to the Propagator, Firestone Walker’s finally-now-open Westside spot where you’ll show up for the rare drafts, stay for dinner and go home with a full growler. Here’s the
Nashville hot chicken in a Chinatown mini-mall. Hard to get more LA than that. Unless the chicken has a screenplay or something. Regardless, you get your fix at Howlin’ Ray’s from now on. It’s the first stationary location of LA’s only Nashville-inspired hot chicken truck, and it’s soft-opening Thursday in Chinatown. The slideshow’s here and the menu’s
You did it. You made it through La La Land and Warren Beatty and dancing Timberlake. Now you’re in desperate need of soul food. Or soul anything. So it shall be that this Friday, you visit Barbara Jean. It’s a new soul food spot from Campanile/Patina vet Jason Fullilove, and it’s now open Fridays and Saturdays for dinner and Sundays for brunch on
There’s a possibility that every human effort up to this point has been futile. Expect that all to change once fried pizza dough with lobster enters your life. By way of Vinoteca, the new Italian wine/espresso bar that’s now soft-open at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. The food and drinks look ever so nice and so does the menu. Right now, you can hit
Just because you’re maximizing your beach days doesn’t mean you have to minimize your wine-bar afternoons. Because here’s Chez Tex, a neighborhood rendezvous point uniting dishes from a Republique vet with life-affirming wine, opening Wednesday in Venice. See the slideshow and the menu. You’ve needed this place before. Some desperate night on Main Street
Let’s just take a wild leap and assume you’ve never eaten dinner inside of a massive 360-degree video cube. ... Welcome to Monkey Town, a cinematic dinner party in a cube unlike any other cinematic dinner party in a cube. Tickets are available now for its swan song in Downtown, running June through October. Check it out. Thank Brooklyn for this one. It
You’re on your way to a Westside barbecue. You assume there will be kale. Maybe patty-shaped quinoa. So you’ll do the right thing and save the day with sausage, charcuterie and porchetta of esteemed provenance... By stopping at The Cannibal Beer & Butcher, a new butcher shop and sandwich counter by way of Manhattan, open as of today at Culver City’s
