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When it’s pouring rain outside, and you have a gift card in your wallet with $$ still left on it, how can you resist the temptation of a cozy French bistro and onion soup? The other night Comme Ca was calling our names in a sexy French accent and the promise of hot comfort food. [...]

I am a huge fan of Christophe Émé. For the past couple of years, Ortolan has been at the top of the list of restaurants I want to go to. Now that my two-year sabbatical to the frozen tundra is over, I finally made my way out there. I will probably wax [...]

I’ve been pretty excited about Terroni opening, ever since I saw their menu. Authentic Cafe, which used to be in the same location, was a regular dinner/drinks place for me and the void was noticable once it was closed and the new restaurant was under construction.
Now it’s open, and I have wasted no time evaluating [...]

I admire people who take the risk to run a restaurant. I hear it is a really tough business and most don’t make it. So when I see a new place (it may not really be that new but I just didn’t notice them until recently) I often like to give it a [...]

So my husband and I had absolutely no plans today. He spent the day at the computer, I spent the day cleaning house and exercising. Suddenly, the evening was almost upon us and we had absolutely nothing going on. He turned to me and said “Hey, what would you think about going and trying to [...]

The Village Idiot may have to be my new “local.”
When I was just out of college, I went to live in London on a work permit for a little while. One of the things I really loved about England, was how you always had a local. Every neighborhood had a pub or two or three [...]

I’ve recently returned from travels in Japan, and my husband and I are experiencing some serious nostalgia already. Accordingly, we’ve had to eat a lot of Japanese food in the past month. So one of the things on our “to do” list was to check out Gonpachi on La Cienega. Gonpachi is a true import [...]

I took a little jaunt downThird Street last weekend in order to do some necessary shopping and to try out the new annex to the Little Door, the Little Next Door. You don’t really need to read this whole review. All you need to know is this: it is like the French version of [...]