Email Author Michelle Huneven

2000 Stories by Michelle Huneven

• The Jewel Box: Cafe Talesai

  published December 28, 2000

  There is a problem with the smart new Cafe Talesai, on Olympic just a few blocks west of Doheny. The space is certainly pretty enough: The... More >>

• The Contender

  published December 14, 2000

  Chadwick is the fourth restaur-ant at 267 S. Beverly Drive that I‘ve reviewed in the last decade. Since the cozy Chez Helene vacated th... More >>

• The Reluctant Café

  published November 30, 2000

  I have just returned from Paris and am suffering from a particular kind of withdrawal. I had grown quite fond — perhaps overly so —... More >>

• Meat and Greet

  published October 26, 2000

  ”I’m so happy,“ said my friend Kate on approaching the salad bar at the new Brazilian restaurant Picanha in Burbank.... More >>

• Westside Chop Shop

  published October 12, 2000

  Walking into Le Saigon, I smell the cool, watery green scent of cucumbers. And indeed, from my seat I can peek into the back of this tiny... More >>

• The Last Time I Saw Paris

  published October 5, 2000

  A friend and I are sitting on the patio of Le Petit Zinc. We are trying to talk to each other, but there is a distraction: At the table next to... More >>

• Beyond Old Town

  published September 21, 2000

  Pasadena‘s Old Town is a theme park, a marketplace, a date destination, a parking nightmare. It is a strange comment on what constitutes “o... More >>

• The Pig

  published September 14, 2000

  When I was 18 I was a fast-food cook at a takeout stand in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, called the Pig ’n’ Puppy, a name so clumsy a... More >>

• New Joints

  published August 10, 2000

  This is not a restaurant review. It started out to be one: That is, I went to a fledgling restaurant with the intent of writing about it, but I... More >>

• Popovers and Panties

  published July 27, 2000

  Some time ago I interviewed Marion Cunningham, author of the Fannie Farmer Cookbook, among many others, and an ardent... More >>

• A New Katsu

  published July 20, 2000

  How many sushi bars can fit on the head of a pin? Or even on the stretch of Ventura Boulevard from Laurel Canyon to Vineland? Standing in front... More >>

• A New Katsu

  published July 20, 2000

  How many sushi bars can fit on the head of a pin? Or even on the stretch of Ventura Boulevard from Laurel Canyon to Vineland? Standing in front... More >>

• A New Katsu

  published July 20, 2000

  How many sushi bars can fit on the head of a pin? Or even on the stretch of Ventura Boulevard from Laurel Canyon to Vineland? Standing in front... More >>

• A New Katsu

  published July 20, 2000

  How many sushi bars can fit on the head of a pin? Or even on the stretch of Ventura Boulevard from Laurel Canyon to Vineland? Standing in front... More >>

• A New Katsu

  published July 20, 2000

  How many sushi bars can fit on the head of a pin? Or even on the stretch of Ventura Boulevard from Laurel Canyon to Vineland? Standing in front... More >>

• A New Katsu

  published July 20, 2000

  How many sushi bars can fit on the head of a pin? Or even on the stretch of Ventura Boulevard from Laurel Canyon to Vineland? Standing in front... More >>

• A New Katsu

  published July 20, 2000

  How many sushi bars can fit on the head of a pin? Or even on the stretch of Ventura Boulevard from Laurel Canyon to Vineland? Standing in front... More >>

• The Pasadena Conundrum

  published July 6, 2000

  Pasadena is an odd restaurant town -- some very good restaurants struggle and go under, while blatantly mediocre establishments flourish and... More >>

• Te Amo Ammo

  published June 29, 2000

  Ammo, a small, sleek cafe on Highland Avenue, is like a pyramid scheme. Recently, a friend took me there for lunch. When I returned several... More >>

• Keba-ba-ba-bin Along

  published June 8, 2000

  I was about eight minutes late meeting my friends at Carnival in Sherman Oaks — I had to find a parking place —... More >>

• Because It’s There

  published May 25, 2000

  It was not love at first sight between the Mustard Seed and me. A reader suggested I visit the small corner... More >>

• Sale Agreed

  published May 25, 2000

  I am in escrow. In Ireland. I, a lifelong renter, born and raised and still living in Los Angeles, am in escrow in Ireland. ... More >>

• Fishing for Compliments

  published May 11, 2000

  I always find willing volunteers to go with me to La Serenata de Garibaldi -- especially to the original restaurant in Boyle Heights. Long... More >>

• Figaro, Figaro

  published April 27, 2000

  At the sweetly funky Onyx coffeehouse on Vermont, the art was bad, the tables mismatched, the coffee mediocre, and the customers more often... More >>

• Puck’s Lament

  published April 13, 2000

  What, if anything, is wrong with Los Angeles restaurants? To hear Wolfgang Puck tell it, whatever fault there is lies largely with the media... More >>