Photo from Chocolate Salon How much do you love chocolate? Do you love it soo much that you can spend all day eating it, smelling it, learning about it…eating it? If you answered yes, best buy your tickets now to TasteTV’s 2nd Annual Los Angeles Luxury Chocolate Salon going off this Sunday. There, you’ll be…
Category Archives: Dining
This Weekend: Free Ice Cream, Fairey and Festivals
If you can’t make it to the big Fred Segal sale or the American Wine & Food Festival this weekend, maybe I’ll see you at one of the following instead. Thursday, September 25 World’s Largest Ice Cream Social and Free Coldstone Ice Cream In celebration of the 7th Annual World’s Largest Ice Cream Social participating…
American Wine & Food Festival's Kick-Off Party: Red Hot @ Red Seven
Flickr Shot by dotsara Tis the season of grand eating as we have food festivals going off everywhere in L.A. But one of the biggest ones is the American Wine & Food Festival which is celebrating its 25th year and will take place at the Universal Studios back lot this Saturday. However, if you’re thinking…
Savor the Season: Getting Stuffed to the Gills
That’s my friend Shelley who had put a winning bid on a downtown pub crawl at Savor the Season’s silent auction Sunday night. Shelley thought it would be funny if she won the auction and dragged me along. “Funny” because the company sponsoring the pub crawl is the same one that had banned me from…
Millions of Milkshakes: My God, It's Full of Toppings
Ever since I saw the signage on the West Hollywood storefront touting “The Britney Shake, The Paris Shake, The Lindsay Shake” I’ve been intrigued by Millions of Milkshakes, a shop dedicated only to that dairy delicacy. What’s this? Will they serve adult milkshakes, i.e. with liquor? What’s with the celebutard tie-in? Apparently, the idea for…
This Weekend: BFFs, The Last Cinespia, Goldfrapp
I’ll be too busy this weekend with my big move (and seeing Beck at the Bowl) but here are some things YOU can do. Friday, September 19 Old Navy’s Best Friend Weekend Sale Who shops alone? Exactly. So while you’re out on a spree with your buddy, stop by an Old Navy and you both…
Wilshire Restaurant’s New Dessert/Cocktail Menus
It’s easy to take places for granted after they’ve been around for several years but when I heard that Wilshire Restaurant in Santa Monica was sporting a new cocktail menu AND dessert menu I had to revisit it. Last time I was there, I had gone for their very short 5-6:30pm happy hour, and the…
This Weekend: BBQ Meat! Beer Pong and Brauts! Booze Sale!
This weekend, all I wanna do is ride my Vespa all over the place! And this is where I wanna go. Saturday, September 13 LA BBQ Fest What a great way to end the summer…and try to hold onto it at the same time, bbq meat on Santa Monica Beach! Seems like everyone I know…
Take a Bao: Pork Buns All Fancified and Healthy
When I was a kid growing up in Northern California, one of the things I loved to do with my folks was go to Chinatown in San Francisco. The ‘rents always liked stopping by the various shops to pick up goodies, like those jelly sponge cake thingies, dumplings and baos. So the kid in me…
This Weekend: Lavender Gimlets, Deep-Fried White Castle, Operatic Fly
I like this weekend. It sounds fun. And I’m almost able to forgive it for being the first weekend of September. Friday, September 5 2008 Los Angeles County Fair Summer’s over, you don’t have to worry about maintaining that bikini body anymore! Why not go whole hog and snarf deep-fried White Castle burgers, muffin-size red…
