Archives: Dining

There are a lot of clever names one could call a place that serves lobster and beer. Take “Lobster & Beer,” for instance. Really captures the essence. So here’s Lobster & Beer, a casual new neighborhood spot that thinks your grilled cheeses, tater tots and sausages would be vastly improved by adding crustacean meat, and that cold, hoppy beverages

When you hit the pearly gates, hopefully somebody welcomes you into a lovely garden, pours you a margarita from a tap, then hands you some mesquite-grilled asada tacos. Until then, you have Salazar, an all-day, outdoor restaurant and bar doing those very things while you’re alive and well. It opens Thursday in Frogtown, this is the slideshow, and this is

Three-day weekend. Three ways to use this place. Coincidence? Only time will tell at Sawyer, an attractive new spot for patio seafood and drinks to drink with it, now open in Silver Lake. Oh, look, a slideshow. Inside looks good. It’s a bright dining room accented with tile, funky chandeliers, a portrait of a young Bob Dylan and an attached location of

It’s a tricky thing, keeping up with LA’s newest places to eat. So forgive us for giving you 48 of them opening all at once on Sunday. Better start planning for Smorgasburg, a weekly marketplace by way of NYC that’s gloriously packed with tacos, banh mi and mesquite-grilled Maine lobster born of notable lineages. It’ll materialize every Sunday from this

Look, you can’t just spend all summer basking in the sunshine on Palihouse’s roof. Nope, at some point you’ll need to come in and eat something. And that’s where Mardi comes in. It’s the West Hollywood hotel’s new all-day restaurant proposing big shareable feasts of lamb and pork neck, and it’s now taking reservations online for Tuesday’s opening. Both

Face it. This whole relationship would be for naught if we didn’t have ice cream from a notable chef for you this weekend. Like Magpies Softserve, where pliable, swirly ice cream is handmade by former Patina and Westside Tavern chef Warren Schwartz. It’s now open in Silver Lake, and here’s the slideshow to help you be less hot. Big Gay Ice Cream still

Your movie starts at 8. Meaning your baby backs and Old Fashioneds start at 6:30. You’re clearly at the Tuck Room Tavern, a whimsical restaurant below iPic from the legendary Sherry Yard, soft-open now and grand-opening tomorrow in Westwood. Cue the slideshow and the menu. It’s a mix of old-Hollywood glamour and random quirkiness for eating Reuben

Curtis Stone just opened a butcher shop. It’s serious. It’s uncanny Fourth of July timing. It’s best if we start saying more words about it now. So... Gwen Butcher Shop, where the Aussie chef and his brother break down animals to ensure that you win your various weekend cookouts, is open now in Hollywood, and here’s a look inside. Crazy. Maude’s boss

“Should we eat beside Morrissey?” “Or would you prefer sitting below that blowfish?” These are real-world decisions. To be tackled at Here’s Looking at You, a compelling new Koreatown restaurant where tobacco-smoked cocktails accompany an Animal vet’s wood-grilled steaks. It’s opening Wednesday, and here’s the slideshow. Pre-Wiltern drinking dates.

Tonight, you soar with the condors. Glide with the hawks. Drink Vespers beside LAPD helicopters. Tonight, you celebrate life at 71Above... It’s the skyscraping, 360-degree epicenter of client drinks and impressive dinner dates that, yes, opens tonight 71 floors up the tallest building west of the Mississippi. Here’s a look inside and here’s the