It's that time of year again! dineLA's winter 2012 Restaurant Week is set for January 22-27 and January 29-February 3, 2012. This is the program's fifth year. more ›

dineLA has revealed the names of the 307 restaurants slated to take part in next month's dineLA restaurant week, which means it's time to start planning where you'll be lunching and supping October 2-7 and 9-14. more ›

The twice-annual dineLA Restaurant Week will be back October 2-7 and 9-14 this year, and hundreds of restaurants in L.A. County will be offering fixed price dinners and some even lunches to encourage diners to go out and try new places or revisit old favorites. more ›

If you were wondering how good dineLA Restaurant Week was this winter for the local economy, the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau shared some numbers today. Plus: dineLA Restaurant Week will return this fall with two more weeks of dining deals October 2-7 and October 9-14, 2011. more ›

A Noise Within have reprised their hilarious and critically acclaimed production of the joyfully out-of control British farce Noises Off, with shows today at 2 and 7 p.m. Company Co-Founders/Co-Artistic Directors Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott co-direct the production, in which Elliott also performs, which was presented last season for the first time in the company's history and garnered rave reviews. [Tickets] more ›

The return of the popular bi-annual dineLA event was announced last month, and today the names of the 297 participating restaurants in the upcoming "Restaurant Week" have been revealed. Among the melange of family-friendly, fine dining, chain, hotel, casual, lunch-oriented, steakhouses, sushi spots, and romantic restaurants are some of the city's hottest dining destinations. more ›

It seems like only yesterday diners in Los Angeles had their pick of 300 restaurants participating in dineLA's twice-annual "Restaurant Week," and here it is coming up again. True, it was only October, and the Fall edition of the promotion that finds local restaurants offering three-course fixed price menus aimed at welcoming new diners; now we can look ahead to late January and early February for the Winter edition. more ›

Mac and Cheese can be a very personal thing (trust me) and to pursue the best and most satisfying restaurant offering is a noble, and often unending pursuit. DineLA serves up a generous forkful of noodles-and-cheese intel in their "Get Your Mac On" breakdown of where to go for what kind of Mac attack you're having, like Old School (101 Coffee Shop, Lola's), With a Twist (Ford's Filling Station, Corkbar), Potpourri (First & Hope, Mac & Cheeza), or even Gluten Free (Farmstand) just to name a few on this calorie-dense and impressive 28 restaurant list. What could they have possibly left out? more ›

dineLA's Fall 2010 Restaurant Week--which is really the better part of two weeks--is underway, and this year there are 300 restaurants participating, which makes dineLA not only the largest restaurant week in the nation, but also an event that presents a staggering array of options to diners. more ›

Family Bookstore holds the launch of the book, Touchable Sound: 7" Records from America, tonight at 7 pm. There will be a slide show of 7"s with commentary and discussion by all three book editors--Mike Treff, Brian Roettinger, Diego Hadis, plus Britt Brown of Not Not Fun Records and Justin Pearson of Three One G Records. more ›

To tease your palate for the upcoming two-week dineLA Restaurant Week event, where you can get to know 300 local restaurants via special prix-fixe menus, dineLA has been running a series of "Quickfire Challenges." more ›

Foodies around Los Angeles start to buzz when the biannual dineLA Restaurant Week announces its participating restaurants. Today it's officially time to pore over the list and get out the calendars. Now the largest Restaurant Week event in the nation, there are 300 participating restaurants--up from 233 last Winter--that will offer special menus October 3-8 and October 10-15, 2010. Lunches range between $16 and $28 while dinners are from $26 to $44. more ›

How has your National Hamburger Month celebration been going? You could check out some bunned offerings from newer kids on the burger block like The Slaw Dogs or the Patty Wagon. Or maybe just stick to the old reliable, like In-N-Out, or one of our favorites (25 Degrees, Golden State, or one of the 10 spots we declared the Best in L.A.). more ›

One thing you may have noticed about LAist is that we take our mac and cheese very seriously. Luckily, so do the good folks over at Citizen Smith. The trippy junk store-chic hotspot that has inhabited the Cahuenga corridor for four years is known more for its nightlife, but they definitely take their food seriously. more ›

Everything I really need to know I learned at Rush Street. 1.Share everything. The servings here are so generous and the food is so tempting-looking, it is impossible for friends to keep their fingers out of your fries. Luckily, you have a mess of fries and can afford to lose a few. After all, Rush Street generously invited LAist to sample their dineLA menu, so share and share alike. more ›

It's a shame that not every diner can sit down with Rivera's John Sedlar and listen to him tell the stories of his dishes while they dine. Sedlar is a gifted storyteller in person, however the power of myth, history, and culture are also embedded in every bite of the beautiful food he has on the menu at his popular and welcoming downtown restaurant. more ›

Once upon a time the words "La Cachette" evoked a sort of "ladies who lunch" sense of formality, even at dinner time. And while his La Cachette of days gone by was popular and beloved, Chef Jean Francois moved his restaurant to Santa Monica, to an the off-the-Promenade location, and reinvigorated the cuisine and atmosphere with a far more comfortable, family-friendly vibe. Hence La Cachette Bistro, where we went by invitation to sample their dineLA dinner menu. more ›

Wednesday night LAist accepted a dinner invitation to test out the dineLA menu. The first thing we noticed were the vegetarian options, assuming the risotto is cooked without chicken broth. The menu seems basic upon first glance, but the high quality of the ingredients and careful execution made the simplest-sounding dishes exquisite. more ›

You may not be able to share lunch by the water in George Clooney's villa, but you can get a taste of Lake Como right here in Santa Monica. Its location on the 3rd Street Promenade may make some people think the restaurant is a tourist trap, but once ensconced in the tasteful high-ceilinged, white tablecloth restaurant it becomes clear this is not some cheesy chain. Locanda del Lago is a special occasion restaurant, but it is also down-to-earth enough that you can come-as-you-are straight off the Promenade. more ›

Inspired by his Tuscan family roots, actor and transplanted Frenchman Mathew Cape partnered with a good friend to open Vinolio in Hollywood's burgeoning Cahuenga Corridor last fall. Offering rustic, quality comfort dishes and a convivial atmosphere with affordable prices, Vinolio is one of the over 200 restaurants participating in dineLA 2010's winter Restaurant Week. Just a few days before the promotion launched, LAist was invited to stop by to preview the dineLA lunch menu and to get to know Vinolio. more ›

To get everyone in the mood for the upcoming dineLA Restaurant Week, dozens of Los Angeles' most celebrated chefs gathered at the Hollywood Roosevelt Tuesday night for a night of food, drink, and revelry. more ›

Just a couple of weeks ahead of the launch of this year's first Restaurant Week, dineLA has put together a local "Chef Family Tree" which charts and honors chefs, their eateries, and the influential link between today's hottest new names in food and their mentors. While we've just got a screenshot to act as a teaser, dineLA's site offers a more interactive experience where you can discover the links between restaurant and chefs past and present, as well as take a look at the connections between chef and restaurants. more ›

The discounted dining special aimed at getting Angelenos out and about and sampling some of our many phenomenal restaurants returns again at the end of the month. dineLA restaurant week will run its winter installment once again, this year from January 24-29 and January 31-February 5th. more ›

Ports O' Call restaurant, which is in Ports O' Call Village in San Pedro, has an immediate strike against it. It is a common belief that restaurants with views always suck (cough Castaway cough). Even if in this case it is just a view of oil drums and tankers. Then to really make a seasoned diner nervous, they have weddings there. Like all the time. Sometimes two at a time. Would you like the pistachio-crusted chicken or the poached salmon with dill sauce? Stop running! It's OK. Come back. They have cake. more ›

It looks like he got his point across, at least in our most recent meal there. more ›

When is a week not a week? when it's two weeks. Err, make that three weeks. dineLA Restaurant Week is being extended Oct.18-23! The list of participating restaurants has also been reconfigured. It is much more readable now, and you are able to see which restaurants are offering lunch without having to click on their page. more ›

Pinot Bistro on Ventura Boulevard has seen may chefs come and go, some of them spectacular and some of them so-so. Previous chefs include such notable names as Octavio Becerra, Miki Zivkovic and of course, Joachim Spichal himself. Even Suzanne Goin has worked in the kitchen. We were excited to see what the latest chef, Hugo Veltman, has been cooking up and jumped at the invitation to try their dineLA menu. more ›

So, a coupla chicks walk into Ivan Kane's Cafe Wa s to check out their dineLA dinner... more ›

Sometimes it's really nice to take a vacation all by yourself and treat yourself to a nice meal. Dining downtown at Zucca, with its high ceilings, Venetian paintings and chandeliers gives you that feeling of pampering yourself, if only for an hour. The dineLA menu at Zucca is nothing if not hearty. LAist was invited to try out their lunch menu yesterday and the blustery weathery made the soup and pasta options especially appealing. more ›

It's always a little curious when you arrive at one of the many eateries participating in dineLA's popular restaurant week and they don't hand you the dineLA menu. As a diner there to check out a spot you've maybe never been to before this means things can get off to a rocky start when right out of the gate you have to wonder if you were mistaken, or if the dineLA crowd is really all that welcome where you are. (Baffling, right? After all, restaurants choose to participate, so why not pimp it?) You know that "new kid" feeling? Yeah, that's the one. more ›