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“Made and served with love” — SweetSalt Foodshop in Toluca Lake is a great new place for fancy sandwiches, salads, fabulous soups and various foodstuffs.
It’s a tiny cafe (similar to Joan’s on Third) that offers prepared salads and sandwiches to order. Devised by co-owners (& married couple) Sara Mann and Alex Eusebio, the menu is [...]

DineLA dates are : Jan 24 – 29 and Jan 31 – Feb 5, 2010
BLT Steak on Sunset is not some sandwich joint (ha!) — BLT stands for “Bistro Laurent Tourondel” and this maestro has his eponymous restaurants all over the place (New York, Washington DC, Hong Kong, Honolulu etc).
This one on Sunset Plaza [...]

Baseball, Football, Soccer, Car racing, Golf, Boxing, Volleyball – if you are a sports fan of any kind, then your goal should be heading over to Henry’s Hat. Situated close to Universal Studios, in the old Minibar space on Cahuenga Blvd. West, this new Valley venue is a fun place to chill and immerse yourself [...]

L.A. loves people and places with “it factor.” Having it can mean overnight success and Bistro LQ (open as of last Tuesday) definitely has it. With pure luck and the kindness of Maitre D’ Eric Bouty, I was able to attend the third night of their soft opening last Monday. There is so much to [...]

Okay, we’re probably all feeling the pinch. So here is one way you can dine like royalty on a budget.
Take Oscar night.
Who doesn’t want to party a little while they watch their favourite actors and filmmakers sashay down the red carpet and onto that glitzy stage?
Tomorrow my menu will include:
1. bubbly
2. pate & crostini
3. blini [...]

One of my friends is a huge fan of Kiefer Sutherland’s. She heard that he has frequented Vermont, which happened to be one of the restaurants participating in DineLA week. (For those who are not familiar with DineLA, it’s a two-week period where some restaurants offer a prix fixe menu at a lower [...]

Earlier this year – actually, during summer – I made my way down to Santa Monica to try a restaurant that I’d heard rave reports about. A young, new chef, Evan Funke, had just taken over the kitchen at Rustic Canyon Wine Bar. Word on the street was that he had studied [...]

Fulfilled is a brand new venue offering a completely unique treat, dubbed by owner Susumu Tsuchihashi as “Ima.” The Beverly Hills-based shopfront is an exquisite little jewel-box of a café, where they offer a traditional Japanese delicacy known as imagawa-yaki but with a twist!!
This pocket-like Japanese dessert is often found at festivals and other [...]