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Once upon a time, people liked to eat steak. With scotch. In public. Like they’ll do again at Mama Lion, an impressively attired supper club named for a former tenant here, opening Tuesday in Koreatown. You’ll find Aidan Demarest in the house, who brought you practically every relevant L.A. bar today. And Michael Hung, the acclaimed former Faith &
About that great meal you’re about to have... At a Best Western... In an old IHop... From Joe Miller. “Oh,” indeed. Rudy & Hudson California Diner is the place. It’s a valuable all-day diner that’s now open in, yes, a corner of Santa Monica’s Best Western. As mentioned, Joe Miller of Venice’s dearly departed Joe’s is its star, and this is its
A summer trip to Italy? Sounds like it will be appropriately full of cured meats, handmade pasta and driving. You know, just like your next trip to Downtown LA. Do make a detour to Rossoblu. It’s the new northern Italian restaurant from Sotto’s Steve Samson, and it opens Wednesday in Downtown’s recently revealed City Market South. It’s a large, modern
This place is called Hot Hot Food. So in that same spirit, let’s cut right to the point today. It’s a casual, very-LA spot for eating food brought to you by a former Perch/Must founder along with the mastermind behind Earl’s Gourmet Grub. It opens tomorrow, with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Take a look. It’s not Spago. It’s a small concrete block
Word association time. When we say “beach,” you say: Oh. You said “bolognese.” Odd, yet... eerily prescient. Because today we’re discussing North Italia, an attractive new Italian spot from True Food Kitchen owner Sam Fox that hand makes its own pizza, pasta and meatballs. It’s taking reservations now for a May 30 opening in Santa Monica. This might be
Photo: Alen Lin (main); Forked Up (top) The Transformers are back this summer. Yep. Spider-Man, too. Mmhm. Oh, and also Ricardo Zarate. That last comeback? That’s something to get excited about. Because it pertains directly to Rosaliné, the maternally inspired return of LA’s Peruvian master chef, opening Monday on Melrose. Take a look around.
Warning: Do not bring a vegan here. Do not even attempt to bring a vegan close to here. Okay, you’re now safe to frequent Helados La Michoacana, a sizable Mexican ice cream parlor and snack depository that’s now open and may very well be the most delicious spot to intake inappropriate amounts of sugar in West LA. Have a look around. If you think this
Thanks to this planet’s great surplus of bartenders with suspenders and radical mustaches, you know just what it’s like to drink in the ’30s and ’40s. But the eternal question still burns: What was it like to eat in the ’30s and ’40s? Answer: PlaceSetting, a new private dinner party throwing year-specific bacchanals in period homes throughout LA.
Your poor, poor friends are leaving for the weekend. Heading to the country for repose. Sleeping under the stars. Wading in a gentle surf. Miserably not enjoying pork adobo bowls from a James Beard nominee. As for you: it’s off to Sari Sari Store, a spanking new Filipino lunch stand opening today in Downtown’s Grand Central Market from one of LA’s great
The gods of summer must like you. It’s the only conceivable explanation for this fortuitous appearance of an oyster-slinging wine bar. The only one you’ll entertain anyway. On to Hayden, an all-day restaurant and wine bar prone to serving delicious bivalves, now open at Culver City’s Platform. It’s a place to start your day and a place to end your day.
