Archives: Dining

You're pitching summer blockbusters... all over town... so hot... so hungry. Must have champurrado porridge and a burger. Spoonfed to the rescue. It's a really lovely new place that'll start serving breakfast, lunch and dinner on Tuesday in Hollywood. It's roughly 68% glass garage doors opening to greenery, 20% sunny, modern dining room with a mural of a

In April 2017, Tacos Punta Cabras closed. Yet somehow, life on the Westside of Los Angeles remained endurable. Now, it's back and just called Punta Cabras. And when chef Daniel Snukal revives it on Wednesday, you'll find it's somehow more. Much more. You could alternately view this slideshow and then read on. First, big collective "yay" for everybody's

You still have dreams of making it in Hollywood. Wait, we messed up. You still have dreams of making it to Hollywood to eat at the most anticipated steakhouse of the year. It's called APL Restaurant and it's the first LA spot from the classically-trained-chef-cum-barbecue-expert—Adam Perry Lang—that you've seen popping up sporadically in Jimmy Kimmel's

You're beginning to suspect your new romantic interest harbors vegan sympathies. Just to be safe, you'll make a mental note never to take them here. To Hock + Hoof, a carnivorous new eatery that lives up to the promise of its name, opening tonight in Downtown looking like this. Here you have a small, bright space of white subway tile and metal stools on a

Time out. Wow. We've always wanted to pull a Zack Morris on you like that. And dreams become reality at Saved by the Max, a Saved by the Bell-themed diner now open in West Hollywood. Tickets are online now, with a whole new batch available at noon to see it in action through September 2019. Check it out. In any case, it's going to be fun to do some

Everyone now. Concentrate. And think pool thoughts. Collectively, we might be able to break through. At least we've conjured up Veranda, a breezy, picturesque restaurant and bar that you'll find by the pool in back of Hotel Figueroa, now open come gloom or shine. Check it out. In time, we'll ideally all be frolicking around here in the sunshine, passion

One of these things is not like the other: A Kanye MAGA Hat. A transnational Hollywood sex cult. A beautiful Greek restaurant in Beverly Hills. Make of that what you will while helping us welcome Avra to Beverly Drive. It's a big, beautiful Greek restaurant from New York serving charcoal-grilled seafood flown straight from the Mediterranean, and it's now

In 1918, Philippe's fortuitously invented the French Dip in Los Angeles. Or in a totally different year, it happened totally differently at Cole's. What is considerably less in dispute is the origin of the Italian dip. That goes to Pirolo's Panino, a new Italian sandwich shop from James Beard semifinalist Michael Pirolo of Miami's Macchialina. It opens