Have you ever wanted to drink, eat, dance and gamble the night away but couldn’t bring yourself to make the four-hour trek to Vegas? CozmoCard, LA.com and Open Table join merry-making forces to throw the ultimate Sin City event for Angelenos: Vegas in L.A. On Saturday, August 26 at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, there will be djs…
Category Archives: Dining
Menupix.com: Your Own Virtual Menu Drawer
Sometimes I just want to stay in for the day and be lazy. But since I only have baking soda and a pitcher of water in my refrigerator, starvation inevitably forces me to go out in search of food. I could order takeout somewhere but I usually throw away the menus that people leave on my…
Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles: Passion for Poultry
The last time my sister Sizzler visited (pre-vegetarian years and when she still lived in Japan) we got into a huge knock-down-drag-out fight because I didn’t take her to Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles. “What’s the big deal?” I asked, ducking her dukes, “It’s going to be there forever and…IT’S JUST CHICKEN!” Suffice it to say, that…
Cafe Ugo: Turn Down the Tiramisu
Back in the ’90s, I used to be a tiramisu reviewer. Not for any special publication or anything. Rather, my friend Bernadette and I would go from Italian restaurant to Italian restaurant just to sample this Tuscan trifle. It was our own unofficial quest for the best one out there. Having not found it yet,…
La Bottega Marino: Summertime Sammiches
There are some foods I’m not crazy about, i.e. pickles, tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, deli sandwiches. So when my friend recommended that we go to Italian deli, La Bottega Marino, for lunch, I was like, “Eh.” But Julie has a way of selling me on almost any food because she speaks with such enthusiasm that it…
Outlaw Dinner: 7-Course Meal of Forbidden Food
Did you know that New York banned sous vide preparation and that Chicago has an impending law against foie gras? Yeah, I didn’t either and I have to say that until this very second when I googled those food terms, I didn’t even know what any of that meant. But apparently foie gras involves the…
SinBaLa's Shaved Ice: For Relief From the Heat
Flickr Shot by Imtrendywendy The other day I ventured further into the oven by traveling east to Rowland Heights. It was 110 degrees out and hellishly dry. My friend Julie and I were driving around blasting on the A/C and trying to decide what to have for a snack. It felt too hot to ingest…
Left Unfulfilled at Ford's Filling Station
As many know by now, Ford’s Filling Station is owned by Harrison Ford’s son and former owner of Chadwick, Ben Ford. The Culver City restaurant, and L.A.’s first “gastropub” opened earlier this year to much fanfare, and because of that I decided to beg off until things died down a bit. But when I went there…
Rat Pack Martini Lounge: A Cure for What Ails Ya
Big: I can tell you one thing, I sure did miss you, officially. Carrie: Did you cry? Big: No, but I did listen to a hellava lot of Sinatra. ~ Sex & the City And ain’t that the truth? When you’re down in the dumps, Frankie does the trick. Maybe it’s because he delivers the lyrics…
The Counter: Pimp Your Burger
If you are a burger snob and are the sort to tell the fast-food speakerbox to hold the tomatoes and mustard, grill the onions and, oh yeah, no buns, and can I get a side of BBQ sauce with that…then the Counter on Ocean Park is where you need to go. Today was only…
