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This week’s LA Downtown News features “What Rhymes with Villaraigosa?” .
The scoop:
“Fancy yourself a poet? Then put your rhyming to the test in the Los Angeles Downtown News Limerick Contest in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. Just fill out the form on page 15 with a five-line verse and send it to us. There’s [...]

The Far East Chop Suey Cafe is scheduled to open its historic doors in the coming months, under the new name Chop Suey Cafe and Lounge. The Grand Opening Date has been pushed to the first of March due to some unforeseen setbacks for the owners. Personally, I’m not sure what exactly needs to happen [...]

The night began with dinner at The Standard with the girls for our Girls Night Out. Unfortunately for me, I didn’t run to the Bank before I got there and had to make some change for the $8 parking fee or the $20 wristband to get up to the roof. Thanks to the girls, it [...]

Having tried all of well-known Westside ramen restaurants, I decided to venture out to Little Tokyo to sample what some people on Chowhound consider to be the best ramen in LA.
Daikokya offers a very down-to-earth atmosphere. The open-air kitchen is surrounded by a counter where you can eat and watch the tattooed [...]

Look what came in the mail for me the other day:

An invitation to paradise…
All I have to do is eat at Roy’s within the next month or so, spend $75 or more - easily done with 2-4 people, and I get a *FREE* copy of Roy Yamaguchi’s new cookbook, Fish and Seafood. (I signed [...]

I have said before that I don’t like to call favorites or designate something as the “best”, so I will just say that Hamakawa has made other sushi bars look inferior. It’s not just the incredible quality of the fish, the variety of the menu or the reasonable prices, it’s the total experience of going [...]

Coming down from an orgy of celebration and irony, we decided eat at Siete Mares to mark the Redskins’ ugly, nearly undeserved defeat of the Buccaneers. There have been scant few reasons for a Washinton expatriate in LA to celebrate the Skins in the last 15 years, so this was as good as any. After [...]

There is no seafood more sincere, lowbrow and unapologetic than at the Fisherman’s Outlet. Occupying a sun bleached, shabbily built brick hut in a terrible part of town, the fetid stench of failure, drug abuse and palpable sociopathy makes you wonder if the food is that good, now that you’re standing in a Soviet-style line, [...]