Email Author Michelle Huneven

2002 Stories by Michelle Huneven

• In the Land of Sugarplum Fairies

  published December 26, 2002

  Once upon a time I made a right turn onto Beverly Boulevard. I was looking for street number 7122, but somehow I went by without noticing it.... More >>

• Pasta la Vista, Baby!

  published December 19, 2002

  It’s happening again. My friend and frequent dining companion Allan is sending his meal back. This time, it‘s nothing serious, an... More >>

• Happyland

  published December 12, 2002

  The Grove is a sanitized and compact city unto itself -- nothing old or ugly or dirty or shabby or sad. Rambling through recently, I... More >>

• Drakes: The Enchanting Flatiron

  published December 5, 2002

  Photo by Anne Fishbein IT'S A FRIDAY EVENING, AND WE EARLY BIRDS HAVE COME UNSTYLISHLY early to the stylish new Drake's in... More >>

• Woman of the Revolution

  published November 28, 2002

  Gioconda Belli is the author of seven books of poetry, three novels and a children‘s book. She currently lives in Santa Monica with he... More >>

• Mostly Vincent

  published November 28, 2002

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• Coffee Shop 101

  published November 21, 2002

  What struck me first about the 101 Coffee Shop is its lack of irony. It looks like a coffee shop of my youth, right down to the dark... More >>

• An Oyster in Paris

  published November 14, 2002

  We were planning to take the train from Paris to Normandy to eat oysters -- a pilgrimage my friend Marie Aimee, a lifelong Parisian, makes... More >>

• Viva Dosa!

  published November 7, 2002

  When I mentioned to friends that I was eating a lot of dosas in Little India, many of them shot back, “What‘s that?” And... More >>

• The Driving Concept: Cut

  published October 31, 2002

  Photo by Anne Fishbein LOS ANGELES HAS NEVER BEEN SHORT ON ICONOGRAPHIC LANDMARKS, with monument-size doughnuts and rooftop hot dogs dotting... More >>

• David Ebershoff's Pasadena

  published October 24, 2002

  Illustration by Geoff Grahn BY DAY, DAVID EBERSHOFF IS THE PUBLISHing director of the prestigious, eminently eminent Modern Library. By night,... More >>

• The American in the French Kitchen

  published October 10, 2002

  “It‘s so French,” said a friend on first stepping into Melisse, Josiah Citrin’s ambitious, classical French restaurant... More >>

• Chilling Out

  published September 26, 2002

  Photo by Anne Fishbein IT'S MID-SEPTEMBER AND TEMPTING TO BELIEVE THE HEAT IS OVER. Mornings are cool; the air has a delicious snap. We... More >>

• Comfort Cuisine

  published September 19, 2002

  Photo by Anne Fishbein I'VE BEEN WATCHING DISH FOR FIVE MONTHS NOW, TO SEE IF IT WAS TAKING hold in a transient location where a number of... More >>

• Life Within the Box

  published September 5, 2002

  Photo by Anne Fishbein LA BUCA IS A TINY NEW ITALIAN CAFÉ ON MELROSE, JUST EAST OF the studios. And I mean tiny. It is, as named, a box... More >>

• Battle of the Beef

  published August 29, 2002

  Photo by Anne Fishbein TWO FRIENDS WERE BICKERING AT DINNER ONE NIGHT, WHILE THE rest of us were listening. The topic of debate?... More >>

• The Wedding Planner?

  published August 22, 2002

  Photo by Anne Fishbein MADRE'S, JENNIFER LOPEZ'S NEW RESTAURANT IN PASADENA, IS probably not what you'd expect. Unless you're... More >>

• Splitsville

  published August 15, 2002

  As the Tables Turn Here‘s a bit of culinary news: One of the most serendipitous partnerships in recent L.A. restaurant history has... More >>

• Just Fine

  published August 8, 2002

  Koi, the lavish new restaurant on La Cienega in the former Drai space, doesn‘t miss a Japanese design motif. Bonsai. Buddhas. Bamboo.... More >>

• The Steak House Rethunk

  published August 1, 2002

  On Hollywood Boulevard, between Hillhurst and Vermont, sits The Hillmont, the new communal dining hall--cum--steak house. It belongs to Steve... More >>

• Splendor in the Grass

  published July 25, 2002

  PICNICS ARE TINY HOLIDAYS, A WEEK IN THE country condensed into hours. Even the simplest picnic can lift us out of our daily life, plop us down... More >>

• A Fondness for Roundness

  published July 18, 2002

  Illustration by Dana Collins THERE'S SOMETHING SO PLEASING ABOUT A MEATBALL. ROUNDNESS, for one. Self-containment. Wholeness. Children... More >>

• Angelic Angélique

  published July 11, 2002

  Photo by Anne Fishbein DOWN IN THE GARMENT DISTRICT, RIGHT WHERE SPRING AND MAIN streets converge, there's a two-story café with a... More >>

• So Cal-Asian

  published July 4, 2002

  After two years at the fashionably hip Linq, chef Andre Guerrero has paired up with Saddle Peak Lodge’s former general manager, Michael Lamb... More >>

• Reading Between the Dots

  published June 27, 2002

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