My big weekend? My nontriumphant return to a certain downtown bar, the chocolate salon in Pasadena (anyone else going?) and attending yet another wedding. Oh yeah, and all these. I wish! Friday, October 3 Free Gelato from N’Ice Cream You scream, I scream, we all scream for free N’iceCream! The new natural gelato and sorbet…
Category Archives: Sweets
2nd Annual Los Angeles Luxury Chocolate Salon
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…
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…
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…
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…
FREE Ice Cream: Silky Smooth Ultra Creamery
I’ve never heard of Silky Smooth Ultra Creamery before (maybe cuz its only location is deep in the bowels of the Beverly Center Mall and not even in the food court) but apparently it was voted #1 ice cream/gelato in L.A. on MyFoxLA and it’s a “microcreamery,” meaning that it handcrafts this unique fusion of…
This Weekend: Healthy Cupcakes, Hitchcock and a Burning Bush
I’ll be in Big Bear starting tomorrow but I found some ways you can entertain yourself this pre-Labor Day Weekend. Is it the end of summer already? Rackin frackin! Friday, August 22 Sprinkles’ Almond Dark Chocolate Cupcakes Available for a Limited Time Sprinkles Cupcakes has finally made a cupcake that’s good for you. Or so…
Kitchen 24: Cocktail Shakes & the Willie
Usually when I hear about a new place and I hear about it from a bunch of the newsletters I subscribe to, I like to stay away from the newly crowned hot spot until things have dined down a bit (I’m still waiting for Osteria Mozza to mellow out!). Such was the case with 24-hour…
How It Went Down at My 3rd Blogiversary Party
Photos by Jennifer Low Photography Aww, I heart that above picture. It was taken while I was pulling names out of a jar for the giveaway prizes during my 3rd blogiversary party at Bar Lubitsch. Lots of friends and crackheads turned up for my little par-tay to help me celebrate and it was soo awesome….
