D’Caché — Latin Fusion cuisine & lively music

Step inside this restored 1928 Spanish mission-style cottage, located on Riverside in Toluca Lake, and you might think you’ve been transported to somewhere in the exotic Spanish or Latin American countryside. D’Caché is a lively restaurant where they serve modern Latin-fusion cuisine, tapas and fine wines and great drinks. Try a fresh Columbian mojito made [...]

Healthyca’s New Menu – also Press Panini – NoHo/Studio City

Okay, I don’t usually get excited about sandwiches. They’re not really my… thing. It’s not that I avoid bread or anything, it’s just that I tend to prefer my carbs in pasta form, or as roasted or fried potatoes.
So —
you’ve gotta appreciate it when I go nuts about this new sandwich I tried.
Backstory: [...]

Prana Café — Studio City

A sister restaurant to the one on La Cienega, and situated beneath Romanov Restaurant, Prana Café is a welcome addition to Studio City (even if some of us miss the Albano’s Pizzeria place it supplanted).
Indoor seating is along the west wall, opposite the closed in but windowed kitchen, is reminiscent of the old Out Take [...]

AOC wine and tapas restaurant

To celebrate our anniversary, the BF treated me out to a wine and tapas restaurant called AOC. The food is roughly mediterranean and comes out in small dishes to be shared with the whole table. The space itself is sleek and modern while still being cozy and warm. We were seated upstairs in [...]

Valley Greek Festival

Do I like Greek food?  As my best gal pal Vanessa would say:  does a one legged duck swim in a circle?
The answer is a resounding  Ne! (which sounds like no, but is actually yes, in Greek.)
Now that my Grandma has passed I don’t get Greek food cooked for me nearly as often as I [...]

Tapas in Tarzana

In keeping with la.foodblogging’s recent focus on the Valley (sorry, Westsiders!) I am thrilled to be writing about one of the best little finds of late.

Tarzana has a lovely European-style café restaurant that is one of the best kept secrets in the Valley. The only reason I am telling you about it because I want [...]

dineLA Recap: Ford’s Filling Station

Ford’s Filling Station
9531 Culver Blvd., 90232
(310) 202-1470
$34 + tax, tip
Bottom line: Yum.
This is the food I love to eat. These are fresh, well-seasoned, unpretentious, and simple dishes borne of a deep hunger within, not of some intellectual curiosity or misinformed science project — I walked out of Ford’s Filling Station last night at 11 pm [...]

Valley Bakeries

[Photo of Natas Pastries]
Hi cake lovers! I did a lot of legwork recently and have come up with a bit of a guide to some of the best bakeries in the mid-East Valley, meaning from Encino to Studio City, keeping close to Ventura Boulevard.
This is by no means an exhaustive nor definitive report.
Which LA [...]