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August 20, 2008
Ever since we first heard of it we've been dying to try out the Root Beer Float Martini ($10) at Kitchen 24 in the Cahuenga Corridor in Hollywood. Is it a cocktail or is it dessert? This concoction shows up at your table as a small scoop of vanilla ice cream in a martini glass and a mini shaker filled with Three Olives Root Beer Vodka and creme de cacao. You pour the sweet dark...
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After reading our LAPD vs. the Hot Dog Carts story and witnessing something yesterday, a reader, Michelle, writes in about the fruit cart guy in front of her office: I work on Wilshire in the Miracle Mile area. Every day for the past year or so there's been a guy outside our office selling fruit from a cart filled with ice. Yesterday around 11 am there were four cops down by where the cart is...
Continue Reading "It's Not Just Hot Dogs, LAPD After Fruit Carts"August 19, 2008
When we first heard about Upper Manhattan Lounge in Manhattan Beach, we had to check it out. Apparently, they have a long martini list. Sure it's not a list with anything really intriguing on it (just one Manhattan cocktail) but it IS something unusual for MB. The lounge opened up this past July but we weren't able to get there til just this Friday. Hey, MB is FAR! Farther than downtown is from us. There's...
Continue Reading "Upper Manhattan Lounge: An Awesome Striptease and an OK Manhattan"Just announced: DineLA is set to return next January, with three price points for prix-fixe lunch and dinners. The 2008 event, which spanned two weeks and had the participation of 140 restaurants, was apparently enough of a success for sponsors to bring it back. LAist covered the event, of course, and our hungry staffers will surely be ready for more. If you can't wait until January, however, check out Wine and DineLA, a similar event...
Continue Reading "DineLA Returning in 2009"August 18, 2008
Saturday may have been the official National Rum Day, but who says we can't celebrate whenever the hell we want (and who gets to make up these national days? Do these people get paid? How do I get that job?)? So, in celebration, we propose you consider making the seriously delicious and easy drink, the Dark and Stormy. Thought to originate from the sea-faring shores of New England, this cocktail is a mixture of spicy...
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August 18, 2008
Vitello's in Studio City has been a Valley classic for years, serving up simple but extremely tasty Italian food. Despite some of its popular culture references (notably the Robert Blake murder case and when the image of Jesus was found in some Manicotti), the restaurant is a neighborhood icon and consistently a community partner. Today, they opened their second space at the corner Woodman and Ventura. Vitello's Express has some of the Studio City menu...
Continue Reading "Vitello's Goes Express"digg_url = 'http://digg.com/world_news/4th_Amendment_LAPD_Destroy_Hot_Dog_Vendors_Cart_on_Sidewalk/'; Remember when Drew Carey went around Los Angeles talking about how all those bacon wrapped hot dog carts are illegal for the most part (unless they are permitted, which most aren't)? At Hollywood and Highland last Friday night, police cracked down on the little ladies with the cars selling those street favorites. All the food and all their equipment were confiscated and trashed. Here's what happened witnessed by LAist Photographer Tom...
Continue Reading "Slice of Life LA: Killin' the Bacon"August 17, 2008
Local food blogger Food Woolf went in for the attack (in the nicest, saucy rib-devouring way possible) at the 8th annual Lucques BBQ aka the Rib Roundup which was held Sunday August 10th. By the end of the meal there wasn't much left except for some bared bones, empty plates, stained table linens, and these delicious photos that she shared with us via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr. It'll be another year until...
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The Melting Pot was recommended to me as a place for a special occasion, and since this past Sunday was an anniversary of sorts, we found ourselves here, on the second floor overlooking Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena....
Continue Reading "Fondue Isn't Just for Dessert? The Melting Pot"August 16, 2008
We want drugs. Admit it, folks. They work. There may be a million practical reasons why we DON’T do them. It doesn’t mean they don’t work. What if you could be really high, right now? Blissfully unaware of life and death, floating in space, feeling just like Jesus’ son. Would you do it? Hmmmmm… oh but no, of course not, that’s awful even to think about. The consequences are just too great. But just for...
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We seem to have a thing for breakfast these days in our Eye Nosh series. But why not? After all, it's the most important meal of the day. And when it's good it is very, very good. And this dish of breakfast goodness from Kitchen 24 in Hollywood submitted to our LAist Featured Photos pool by ellewoodite looks downright fantastic. It's the Garden Benedict, which is a toasted English Muffin topped with Black Forest...
Continue Reading "Eye Nosh: Good Morning, Benedict!"August 14, 2008
"At Pann's Diner, the waffles can't be missed!" wrote LAist Featured Photos contributor staceyviera about this photo. Pann's is in Ladera Heights at La Tijera and La Cienega and may be recognizable because it was featured in Pulp Fiction. They also received The Los Angeles Conservancy’s Award for best example of “Classic 50’s Coffee Shop.” Update: We just spoke to Jim Poulos, the owner of Pann's. He explained that Pulp Fiction was, as a...
Continue Reading "Eye Nosh: Back to Breakfast Basics"August 13, 2008
Good morning. Breakfast is the most important part of the day, right? To taunt you a little, LAist Featured Photos contributor, Foodwoolf submitted this breakfast pizza with speck and egg from Little Dom's on Hillhurst. Submit your Eye Nosh food 'porn' photos and mini-reviews to LAist via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr....
Continue Reading "Eye Nosh: Breakfast in Los Feliz"August 10, 2008
Just as I reached Fab Hot Dogs in Reseda, forty-five painful minutes on the 101 from Los Feliz, my iPod kicked up Bruce Springsteen, the unofficial state poet of New Jersey. It was a good omen, given all the noise about hot dog excellence on LAist lately. The ripper, Fab’s deep-fried dog, is a Garden State original, featured since at least the 1930s at Rutt’s Hutt in Clifton, New Jersey, at the gritty junction...
Continue Reading "Fab Hot Dogs: A Little Piece of Jersey in the Valley"I live on the Westside. I like it pretty well. It's cooler (temperature-wise) and a little less...precious than the Eastside. I like the Eastside -- it attracts a higher number of cooler (and less expensive) bars, restaurants and boutiques. It's just a fact. Sometimes, I take a 'staycation' and spend the day over there. But when I want a little of that without circling the whole city on the freeway to get there, I go...
Continue Reading "Photo Essay: Goodbye, Double Dutch Dinette"Advertisement: LAist Continues Below!
August 9, 2008
LAist is into Rush Street, the new eatery in downtown Culver City. Even I've had a good time there. But the last time I went was pretty unforgivable. It was mid-afternoon, and we had a hankering for some butterscotch pudding, which we still hadn't experienced yet. We stopped by Rush Street, where they seemed to be suffering from a serious case of popular-new-restaurant-itis. We were told that they would not serve us (even though...
Continue Reading "Rush Street: WTF?"August 8, 2008
That's right, tomorrow SusieCakes will be giving away free slices of its yummy red velvet cake to all comers in celebration of its second birthday. This special goes from 10am-7pm in all three locations -- Brentwood, Calabasas and Newport Beach....
Continue Reading "Free Red Velvet Cake: SusieCakes' 2nd Birthday Present to All"Luckily, although S&S Foods is based in Azusa, the recent E. Coli recall is not local. But for the not so lucky, the danger has been found in Virginia and Maryland with additional cases found in Massachusetts....
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Okay, so for most of us, a weekday breakfast might be something a little less substantial, a lot faster, and quite possibly portable. But that doesn't mean we can't get you thinking about the weekend, when hopefully you have the time to relax, sleep in, then refuel with a quality breakfast. LAist Featured Photos contributor delara-photos shows us what was for breakfast recently at Lulu's Cafe on Beverly Boulevard. One choice is an Eggs...
Continue Reading "Eye Nosh: Where's Your Weekend Breakfast?"August 7, 2008
In an attempt to give the public more information about the nutritional value of the fast food they're consuming, County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky is presenting a proposal next week that would require fast food restaurants to post calorie counts on menus: If the measure is successful, Los Angeles County would be following in the footsteps of New York and a handful of other municipalities nationwide that already have implemented calorie counts on the menus...
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LA Weekly readers will notice that Jonathan Gold (ahem, PulitzerPrizeWinning-FoodWriterExtraordinaire-JonathanGold is his official title, I believe) has been a little obsessed with hot dogs lately. First there was his extended meditation on his father's food legacy and the importance of the Chicago-style hot dog: "weekends were often dominated by [Gold Sr's] search for hot dogs in Los Angeles, and he would drive me and my brothers around for hours in the old Studebaker on...
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