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Now Open: SugarFish in Beverly Hills Bar Nozawa Coming Soon

Adding a sixth location to the growing sushi empire, SugarFish has expanded to Beverly Hills. And, why not? We're pretty sure there are still a few tuna and yellowtail swimming around in the ocean. Also opening in about two weeks is Bar Nozawa, a private dining room tucked into the back of the resta ... More >>

Tavern: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Coffee Bean And Tea Leaf Celebrates 50th Birthday With Free Drinks

Half a century ago, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf graced us with their first location in Brentwood. Today, with over 900 stores across 25 countries, the company shop is the oldest coffee and tea retailer in the United States. They're celebrating their 50th birthday on Wednesday, Jan. 30 and the drinks ar ... More >>

Caffe Luxxe Celebrates Its Sixth Birthday with Free Coffee

Caffe Luxxe brought Northern Italian-style espresso and damn fine latte art to Santa Monica six years ago; light-years, in other words, before specialty coffee really took hold of Los Angeles the way it has in the past two or three years. The shop has since added two shops in Brentwood, and will so ... More >>

Your 2012 Summer Movie and Food Truck Roundup

Rolling out a blanket under the stars, taking in a movie project on a big outdoor screen while snacking on some kalbi tacos or pulled pork sliders is quickly becoming a L.A. summertime tradition. Last weekend marked the debut of two new weekly festivals: Street Food Cinema, which is being but on b ... More >>

Ground Organ Meat: The New Farmers Market Burger Essential From Novy Ranches

If you've been wondering where all the "organ burgers" have been hiding among the ground beef, turkey and vegan summer grilling options, you're in luck. Novy Ranches recently began selling ground grass-fed organ meat (kidneys, heart and tongue) at the Sunday Brentwood Farmers Market and on its websi ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Planet Carrots Why Our Winter Carrots Are Less Sweet This Year

Carrots are an easy crop for farmers with the land for them. They don't have the stigma of Brussels sprouts or the on-again-off-again iron taste that beets sometimes have to fight. And they've been lucky enough to dance in the culinary trio of mirepoix for hundreds of years, an unintended marketin ... More >>

The Story of How Lalo Alcaraz's Cinco De Mayo Cartoon Cost Brentwood Patch Editor Dennis Wilen His Job

We once said that Patch, that national network of "hyperlocal" news you can snooze to, just doesn't get it. And this completely proves our point. The ex-editor of Brentwood Patch today published the story of how he was fired last year for running a cartoon that the company's New York editors found ... More >>

Beverly Hills Casting Call Wants Rich People And Their 'Help' For Reality Show

Bravo​Oh boy. If you think The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is disgusting, have we got a show for you. Well, actually, we don't. All we know is that this proposed Real Housewives poseur will focus on the relationships between the Westside's super rich and their help. Let's just hope they ... More >>

10 Best Coffee Shops in Los Angeles

T. NguyenCoffee Commissary​It used to be that you just needed one hand to count all the truly outstanding coffee shops in Los Angeles. Now, thanks to a recent surge of brave coffee geeks-turned-entrepreneurs, you need both hands to tick off all the stellar shops in the city, and maybe that is ... More >>

5 Best Ice Cream Shops in Los Angeles

5.1. Rite Aid (everywhere): Their ice cream isn't chic and artisanal, but it's cheap, ubiquitous and features their standout flavor, Chocolate Malted Krunch. Milky, creamy and slightly tart, it's flecked with soft shavings of dark chocolate that melt on your tongue while crisp, malted mini-bombs e ... More >>

307 Restaurants Participate in dineLA Fall 2011 Restaurant Week

Anne FishbeinSpicy chicken pops at Lukshon.​Ever wanted to try the Lukshon's squid stuffed with fermented ground pork or spaghetti at Scarpetta but can't afford it? dineLA, which returns for 12 days in early October, might be your chance. The restaurant promo returns October 2-7 and 9-14, and ... More >>

Chipotle Opens (in Brentwood)

​There are many things Brentwood needs. Apparently, Chipotle is one of them. Even after Soul Daddy's stunning but unsurprising failure, Chipotle co-CEO Steve Ells has enough cash to open this new location, which will open at the corner of Barrington Avenue on San Vicente Boulevard on August ... More >>

LA's Top 10 Ice Cream & Gelato Spots

Guzzle & Nosh​[Catch up on the full 30 Scoops in 30 Days trek in our sweet, creamy archive.] Americans remember President Ronald Reagan as any number of things: The Great Communicator, a proponent of trickle-down economics, a hack former actor with a penchant for chimpanzees. Few, however, kn ... More >>

Bus-Only Lane Will Run 7.7 Miles Down Wilshire Boulevard -- Conveniently Sparing Westwood's 'Condo Canyon'

LAStreetsBlogThe 720 -- home free!​Screwed year-in and year-out by rail-happy L.A. politicians and transportation officials, the Bus Riders Union finally gets to pop the bubbly tonight -- in celebration of a 7.7-mile bus lane it's taken them six years to win. (That is, if it's approved by L.A ... More >>

[Updated] The Want Ads: A Whole Kitchen at FarmShop

A. ScattergoodFarmShop​ Updated: It seems as if this Craigslist ad for more kitchen staff wanted at FarmShop in the Brentwood Country Mart could do with some further clarification. Jokes about coups d'état aside (and that was meant to be funny, by the way, and no reflection of anything other ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY: MIKE SACKS

February Roundup of Restaurant Openings & Closures

Lemonade: Coming soon to Brentwood​ Sure, we enjoy swanky restaurants like The Wilshire, but it's usually the small hole-in-the walls that hold a special place in our hearts, and stomachs. That's why it hurts so bad when the dinky places close. RIP Tacos Carmelita. Let's take a moment to appre ... More >>

Could Breakfast @ FarmShop Be The Most Luxurious $20 You Can Spend In Los Angeles?

FarmShop​ Twenty dollars doesn't go very far in Los Angeles. Hell, at some addresses on Sunset Boulevard, it barely pays for parking. What it can score you, however, is breakfast at Brentwood's FarmShop, which at the moment may be the most indulgence twenty bucks can buy. Sure there are ot ... More >>

Pressed Juicery: What Hollywood Is (Not) Eating

​ At a recent women's magazine fashion shoot, we interviewed a celebrity so skinny she looked like you could practically suck her through the straw of the algae-colored drink she was nursing. The plastic one pint bottle (slapped with a chicly adorably label for the Brentwood juice delivery ser ... More >>

More Italian for Brentwood: Villetta Debuts in February

L. Balla​ It seems that Brentwood just can't have too many Italian restaurants. The newest on the horizon: Villetta, slated to open next month in the former Chez Mimi space across from the Brentwood Country Mart. Locals were saddened when Chez Mimi shuttered (the owners are still looking for ... More >>

The Platonic Ideal

Farmshop's french fries are what fries should be

[Updated] First Bite: The Platonic Ideal, or FarmShop's French Fries Are What Fries Should Be

Jonagold apple, portions removed​Update: Department of Corrections. In this week's First Bite column, which waxed rather purple over French fries at the rather too new FarmShop, we misidentified the price of the potatoes involved. We were erroneously brought a $4.50 serving of French fries ins ... More >>

Best of Artisanal LA: Compartes' Peanut Butter Spread

I'm not sure what to call the peanut butter concoction Compartes Chocolatier was selling at this weekend's Artisanal LA fest. Paste? Filling? Frosting? What I do know is that it was the first time the Brentwood chocolatier packed their peanut butter cream into jars and offered them for sale. Imagin ... More >>

Neighborhood Activist Allan DiCastro's Rules of Engagement With The City Hall Leviathan

DiCastro knows how to get these fixed.​ In these lean budget times, services are being cut, which means more trash, potholes and unwanted liquor stores in your neighborhood, in a city already known for having well enough of all of the above. City workers have many more demands on them and are ... More >>

Roast Chicken In Brentwood: Does Reddi Chick Hold Up To Nostalgia?

N. GalutenChicken basket at Reddi Chick in the Brentwood Country Mart​ The Brentwood Country Mart is an interesting place, even if just as a destination for anthropological study. Small Santa Monica children are not allowed, from what we can gather, to go through their formative years without ... More >>

Schwarzenegger's Tuesday Voting Attempt A Fail

​Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger got a do-over Tuesday morning when his ballot was rejected because he apparently voted for two U.S. Senate candidates instead of one (Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner?). The fail in Brentwood was caught on Fox 11 News live. The governor was apparently given two choices ... More >>

National Cupcake Day: Like We Needed A Reason

SusieCakes​If you needed another excuse to eat cupcakes for breakfast, you've got one today. It's National Cupcake Day. Why? Why not. If there's a secret rationale behind these things, it's still secret. There were reports of National Cupcake Day being celebrated in August and October, so what ... More >>

Brentwood's Toxic Grave

Historic dumping grounds beneath the spectacular VA land finally get tested.

Be a Land Baron (Or At Least Get Out of That Dump)

Meals On Wheels: A Brief L.A. Food Truck Update

Buttermilk Truck launches the evening of November 11th at The Brig in Venice (via LAist). The Grilled Cheese Truck, which launched last week, just posted this week's schedule on their website. Today, Brentwood. Tomorrow, on KTLA. Flying Pig Truck, which hit the streets in mid-October, is on Cahuen ... More >>

Wine and Cheese Club to open at Tavern: Caroline Styne Instructs

Since its April 30th opening, Tavern in Brentwood has been recognized for its organic food items and unique cocktails, but not necessarily for its wine list or cheese selection. Owner Caroline Styne hopes to change that, inviting winos and amateurs alike into the Larder room, a charming and intimate ... More >>

Marriage, 99 Cents Store Style

​ Tomorrow, the calendar date 09-09-09, is when 99 Cents Only Stores will indulge in an irresistible bit of self-promotion. The company will have nine engaged couples married for the cost of 99 cents per couple at its Hollywood store. (Perhaps marriage, here, is being equated with a 99-year life s ... More >>

Cat Cafe: Los Angeles Needs One, STAT

Here is a business idea for those casting about for things to do in the economic downturn: start a cat cafe. Japan has one. No, correction, they have seven. Seven places where visitors to the cafe pay $8-$12 an hour to sit with cats and drink tea with cats and read comics with cats and pet the cats. ... More >>

Best Roast Chicken: Grill Masters

On and Off the Shelf: A Bookseller on Selling (and Reading) the Novel

Look Out — It’s a Kazan-vilanch!

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Sole Survivors

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Don't Swerve and Drive

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Book Parking and Vice and Consent

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Nightranger

Mean Streets?

Homeless in Westwood

A shelter for vets sounds better than more car-dependent business

Jonathan Gold’s 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants - Part 3

From Renu Nakorn to Zankou

I’m Black and Paranoid

An L.A. native’s view of Crash

Flora Gil Krisloff Interview Transcript

Problems in Paradise

On the campaign trail with the three who would represent the ultimate NIMBY district

If It Happened Here

A bioterrorism attack on Los Angeles might look a lot like this

Trashing Cheap

Janitors make progress on health insurance, but many still go without

Heavy Rotation

The big veal keeps on turnin'