Thanks to my bro’s purchase of the Wifi plan ($12.95) on the Virgin America flight to NYC, I’m able to blog from 34,992 feet in the air. Woo! Anyway, just had to write about the airlines’ banh mi sandwich which is part of its new fall menu. A chicken pesto handroll and veggies with chatpata…
Category Archives: Dining
This Weekend: Arm Wrestling, dineLA Kicks Off, Moonlit Run
What an exciting weekend! I don’t know about you but I’ll be hitting up the American Wine & Food Festival at the Universal City Backlot on Saturday and then it’s Thom Yorke at the Orpheum on Sunday. Woo! OK, enough bragging. Here are other goings-on you can enjoy during this first weekend of October. Is…
The Wine House's 2nd Annual BourBon Q
Droool! The Wine House in West L.A. is fixin’ to kick off its 2nd Annual BourBon Q event where guests will chow down on a mess of barbecue cooked up by Upstairs2 executive chef Todd Barrie. Best part is that you get to wash down the delectable, spicy meats with samplings of American whiskies as…
Win Tickets to Taste of Abbot Kinney Eating Tour
****CONTEST CLOSED**** I’ll contact the 10 winners on Monday, October 5. Good luck! With foodie destination restaurants like Joe’s Restaurant, Tasting Kitchen and Gjelina populating Abbot Kinney, Venice is just crying out for a tasting event. Come on, Santa Monica has one, Eagle Rock and Pasadena do and, yes, beautiful Downtown Burbank. Good thing the…
Hungry Cat's Last Steamed Crab Night of the Season
The waiter teaching us how to break open the crab. Even though cooked whole animals creep me out (see my quail experience at Osteria Mozza) and Hungry Cat‘s food, although tasty, is a bit more than my wallet can allow (NYC here I come!), I found myself saying, “I’m in!” to estarLA (Esther) when she…
Dee-lish Deal: The Beachcomber Malibu's $14.95 Lobster Dinner
Photo courtesy of The Beachcomber Malibu Nothing says you’ve made it like treating yourself to a real nice lobster dinner. And when you combine that with beachside dining and a cocktail, well, you’re just the shiznit now, aren’t you? Fortunately at The Beachcomber Malibu on the historic Malibu Pier, you don’t have to be a…
3rd Annual White Trash Tasting: Bacon-Wrapped Lemonheads and a 10-Year-Old Madeira
Man, I LOVE these white trash wine tastings that Colorado Wine Company in Eagle Rock puts on every year. It’s a chance for everyone to dust off their overalls, comb out their mullets and enjoy wine, not from a box, paired with 7-Eleven fare. This year’s sold-out event was another one for the books. And…
Intelligentsia Venice: Breakfast of Champions
Call me late to the game, the coffee connoisseur game that is. Yeah, so late. Well, Intelligentsia and LAMill opened stores in Silver Lake in the past couple years and I could only read everyone’s tweets from afar about how awesome the coffee at both fancy-schmancy coffeehouses were. But I certainly wasn’t about to brave…
Comme Ca's D'Affaire Love Affair Menu: $2 Oysters, $7 Aphrodisiac Cocktails
Find yourself midtown after a midafternoon tryst or just need to kill some time till rush hour dies down-ish? Comme Ca on Melrose has just the thing, its Defaire Love Affair menu which features discounted nibbles like $2 oysters and $7 “petites assiettes” like steak tartare, crab cake and Croque Monsieur. And the bartenders will…
BottleRock Downtown: Tonight's Tasting Menu
Remember that awesome tasting menu Mondays that BottleRock Downtown let me check out last month? It’s where I ate a fried prawn head. Yeah, that one. Well, here’s tonight’s tasting menu courtesy of the bar/restaurant’s beer sommelier Alex Macy. For this one Chef Jared Levy has created five courses, not including amuse bouche and dessert….
