The Bazaar's 5 Year Anniversary Special Menu (SLS Hotel, Beverly Hills)
You may have read that The Bazaar at the SLS Hotel is celebrating their 5 year anniversary with a special $55 tasting menu until this Friday.
You may have read that The Bazaar at the SLS Hotel is celebrating their 5 year anniversary with a special $55 tasting menu until this Friday.
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Labels: 5 year anniversary, anniversary menu, anniversary special, bazaar, jose andres, SLS hotel, special menu, tasting menu, the bazaar
Sadie Kitchen and Lounge has gone through many chef changes since its opening, and most recently they also revamped their patio dining area to be more lounge-like, although dining tables for larger parties still remain. The lights adorning the walls and trees make this a romantic dining spot at night.
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Labels: bar, chicken and waffles, cocktail, gio martinez, giovanni martinez, hollywood, jonathan moulton, sadie, sadie kitchen
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Labels: brussels sprout, fairfax, grits, mac n cheese, meatloaf, mid city, shrimp and grits, steak, tart, tart restaurant
I had been to Temecula once before this year, but I didn't explore the wineries much and did not realize that the Temecula Valley Wine Country does have good wines. This year I had the opportunity to go on a media trip (thanks to Temecula CVB and the Temecula Valley Winegrowers Association) and visited a lot of wineries, in addition to attending the 4th annual CRUSH gala.
View of Temecula Valley from Callaway Winery |
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Labels: baily winery, callaway winery, crush, crush gala, hart winery, palumbo winery, southern california, temecula valley, temecula wine, wine, wine tasting, wineries
Despite LA's diversity, Singaporean food is still few and far between, but the new Bugis Street Brasserie at The Millennium Biltmore Hotel is filling in a bit of the gap.
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Labels: biltmore, Bugis st, bugis street brasserie, downtown, dtla, hainan chicken, hainanese chicken rice, laksa, lobster ramen, los angeles, millennium, singaporean
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Labels: angostura bitters, angostura cocktail, bartender, cocktails, coco Laurent, downtown, dtla, Krishna Vutla, los angeles
Full disclaimer: I came here on a hosted media lunch, but I had also come back twice after that on my own dime (granted one of them was using the 30% off from the awesome Blackboard Eats). Hamasaku in West LA has actually been open for many years and is a Zagat favorite, but for some reason I hadn't really heard much about it and had not been until I was invited in. I've missed out! This place was great.
The omakase listed on the menu ($75) actually includes a lot of cooked items, so here's a tip: Go on any other day but Monday and sit at the sushi bar, preferably in front of the sushi chef, Yoya, who used to work at Sashi in Manhattan Beach.
My sushi lunch omakase started with some Uni with fried Yuba (tofu skin)
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Labels: ankimo, barracuda sushi, fish, hamasaku, kamasu, king salmon, omakase, santa monica blvd, sushi, uni, west la, yoya
A Shellbacker is someone who's crossed the equator. Shellback is also the name of a rum made in Barbados, claimed to be the birth place of rum according to the oldest document found thus far documenting rum being made (from 1651). They're one of the affordable rums (about $15 a bottle) and come in both silver and spiced rum.
They had sent me a box containing both of them and while the rum is affordable, they sure sent them in a fancy box with my name engraved on it!
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Labels: barbados rum, cocktail, daiquiri, event, mixology, modern mixologost, mojito, rum, shellback rum, spiced rum, tony abou-ganim
During a recent press trip to Temecula Valley Wine Country (thanks to Temecula CVB and the Temecula Valley Winegrowers Association), we also got a little tour of Old Town Temecula's artisanal shops from an olive oil store, a lavender store, a sweets shop, and a spice and tea shop.
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Labels: artisan, lavender, old town temecula, olive oil, southern california, sweet shop, temecula, temecula valley, travel
Desco is a gorgeous new restaurant in Oakland from Donato Scotti who owns Donato Enoteco in Redwood City, serving house made charcuterie and pastas.
Desco's bright and spacious dining room |
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Labels: charcuterie, cocktail, Desco, east bay, italian, northern california, Oakland, pasta, prosciutto
Forget parties with a high cover charge, a lot of bars and restaurants are throwing deals and specials! Here's where to drink on the cheap for Halloween:
First of all, there's a Boos for Booze bar crawl along Washington Blvd in Culver City. Deets:
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Labels: bar crawl, costume contest, costume party, culver city, deals, halloween, halloween party, halloween specials, open bar, thirsty crow
When Mo-Chica was just a stall at the Mercado La Paloma, Ricardo Zarate would do special tasting menus on Tuesdays. They've no revived the Tuesday tastings at the downtown Mo-Chica. The "OG Tasting Menu" offers 5 courses for just $27! A good deal, right?
The menu changes but when I went the 5 courses started with an Heirloom tomato salad, crispy red quinoa, fresh mozzarella, huacatay pesto
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Labels: deal, downtown la, dtla, mo chica, og tasting menu, peruvian, prix fixe, ricardo zarate, tuesday tasting
Fellow writer Barbara Hansen winning a gift certificate to Wi Spa |
Lamb chops in soy sauce |
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Labels: bernard guillas, chef myung, korea food fair, korean food, korean food trade show
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Labels: hankook tea, hydrangea leaf tea, korean food, korean snacks, seaweed, seaweed snacks, tea
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Labels: beer, beverly hills, carson house, craft beer, gastropub, pork chop, wilshire blvd
As I had said in my post yesterday, I had been asked by Foodie.com to make "collections" of my top picks in Los Angeles. Here are two more, featuring the top late night dining in the city (not surprisingly there are a few from K-town, thanks to the abundance of 24-hour restaurants there)
I also made a list of the Quintessentially Los Angeles cuisine. I had a harder time with this collection - how do you define what is quintessentially LA cuisine? I know Din Tai Fung has made it to tons of LA's iconic food and Best of LA lists, but I didn't want to include places like that which is a chain that originated from outside of LA. Instead, I'm looking for things that you can only get or started in LA.
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Labels: 24 hour restaurants, best la food, best la restaurants, best late night, best of la, best of list, iconic la food, la, late night dining, los angeles, quintessentially la, top late night dining
I was asked by Foodie.com to make 4 "collections" of the top spots in Los Angeles. It's a pretty easy way to make lists, I can just search for a restaurant and click to add to my collections (it's not just for restaurants but you can do the same for recipes on the site as well). Then you write a blurb about why it's in your collection. So far it's quite easy to use although the search results give you restaurants from around the country so for common names you have to sift through a bit.
Well, anyway, here are two collections that I made. One is LA's best restaurants from special occasion dining, from steak to sushi worthy of a splurge and celebration! (note: the widgets unfortunately don't show the full collections. To see the other restaurants you'd have to click "See collection")
Another collection I did is the LA restaurants with the best cocktail bars (yes, there are many other great cocktail bars but I specifically chose the ones in a restaurant for this). I ventured as far as Pasadena (1886 Bar - technically separate but it's connected to the Raymond Restaurant after all) and Seal Beach (320 Main).
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Labels: best bars, best of list, best restaurant bars, foodie.com, la, los angeles, special occasion, top list
New restaurants keep popping up on Sawtelle Blvd and they're not all Japanese. Tucked inside the Olympic Collections is Tapenade, which all brussels sprout lovers should visit.
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Labels: brussels sprout, mediterranean, olympic collection, sawtelle, sea bass, seafood, tapenade
It's Oktoberfest time and time for another giveaway! I'm a bit late to this since the Oktoberfest at Fairplex in Pomona had already started on October 10, but it's still going on until the 27th so you still have time! The events are happening Thursday-Saturday 6pm to midnight and Sundays from 12-6pm.
There will be domestic and local beers, bratwurst, burgers, pretzels, and King Taco. Various cover bands are ready to entertain you with songs from traditional German "Oom-pah" to Journey and Queen. Tickets are normally $5 each with beer and food for purchase, but you can enter this giveaway for a prize package!
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Labels: beer, contest, fairplex, giveaway, oktoberfest, pomona
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Labels: beverly hills, chicken liver pâté, cocktail, happy hour, mixology, montage, rob Floyd, scarpetta
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