For moms and dads with young squirmers, a day in the park is way more relaxing than a holiday restaurant brunch, and at the Santa Monica Festival this Mother’s Day weekend, you won’t even have to pack your own picnic. The Clover Park event is Saturday beginning at 11 a.m., just the right time for cruising [...]
At the recent Grilled Cheese Invitational, the sun was as hot and golden as the honored dish. The Cheese Reverend began the festivities with a cheesy convocation, and passionate cheese poets and callers later took the stage. More than 6,000 gathered, but the event was prepared to handle up to 8,000, a nice change from [...]
EAT: LA’s Linda Burum had goat for lunch this week with KPCC’s John Rabe, host of Off-Ramp, and you can hear the results of their goat-loving conversation on Off-Ramp this weekend (noon on Saturday, 7 p.m. on Sunday). Or you can go to John’s blog now and hear a longer version of their chat. Here’s [...]
WHY To travel back in time in the heart of the San Fernando Valley. WHAT Swiss-trained chef Ueli Huegli has transformed a tired Italian restaurant in Valley Glen into Swiss Chef at San Remo, with a menu pulled largely from the late, lamented Matterhorn Chef of Van Nuys, where Chef Ueli, as he is known, [...]
One of our favorite special-occasion restaurants, Saddle Peak Lodge, is currently offering an amazing discount: 50% off any and all bottles of wine on its list on Thursday and Friday evenings. The lingering recession has led to many such discounts around town, but most are only offered on slow evenings (Monday or Tuesday), and often [...]
Once a small, intimate tea tasting among friends, Kulov’s Tea Festival has grown over the past ten years into a celebration of tea with educational workshops, exhibitions, tea tasting booths and live musical performances. This year’s event at Royal/T in Culver City kicks off with a free lecture on tea and fair trade (Saturday, 11 [...]
We at EAT: Los Angeles recently sent stickers to every café, food shop, restaurant, pub, taqueria, coffeehouse, wine bar, bakery, pizzeria and wine shop in the book, and they’re starting to pop up in windows all over town. If a place has a sticker in the window, then we personally recommend it. In the last [...]
WHY Just because you enjoy retail therapy on 3rd Street doesn’t mean you want to spend $30 for lunch. And sometimes you want a great taco. WHAT Pete White opened Plancha in March, and it has quickly become the fave spot for 3rd Street regulars. White paid his dues (25 years!) at Poquito Mas, eventually [...]
This weekend EAT: Los Angeles’s Miles Clements will be a guest on KPCC show Off-Ramp, to talk with host John Rabe about L.A.’s multicultural pizza scene. Here’s the piece Miles wrote for the Los Angeles Times this week about our city’s remarkable pizza diversity (who’s up for a ninja pizza topped with mochi and mayo?), [...]
WHY To give your taste buds a jolt with ramen that comes in nine levels of spiciness. WHAT The ramen is tasty and the soup is flavorful, but what Orochon is famous for is its spicy challenge. The spice level ranges from number 7 (no spice) to number 1 (extremely hot), then moves up to [...]
