The recession is unofficially over, or at least so the Commerce Department reported this morning. Which means we can all go back to living beyond our means, conveniently in time for the holiday season. To celebrate, why not blow your unemployment check on some old school decadent frillies at Petrossian......
The list of restaurants celebrating Halloween keeps growing. But hey, why not, it's a lot more fun to celebrate this holiday than a lot of those that are coming up. (A staid turkey dinner or fake blood cocktails, which would you pick?) In the spirit of the latter, Provecho is......
Need a visual aid for your print edition? This week Jonathan Gold writes about Billy's Deli in Glendale ("like an apparition, an old-line deli plunked down among parking structures and vacant storefronts, a place you expect to find in Skokie or out on Coney Island Avenue, but not a bagel's......
When Joe Pytka's Melrose Place restaurant Bastide reopens next month, chef Joseph Mahon will be the one behind the stoves. Mahon, who is now at 208 Rodeo, is leaving the Beverly Hills restaurant to run Bastide, which will reopen late November as a more casual restaurant than its last incarnation......
Brunch at The Bazaar has always been fun, a playful procession of wacky dishes and foaming drinks in a setting that looks rather like a cross between Monty Python and Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette. Last week, José Andrés himself was in his fun-house, which considerably upped the rah-rah factor. The......
Tired of watching chefs face off on television? Next week at XIV, chefs Michael Mina (Stonehill Tavern, XIV) and Katsuya Uechi (Katsuya, Katsu-Ya) face off, sort of, in an actual kitchen to cook a six course dinner of dueling tasting menus. No Quickfire challenges, just side-by-side dishes wherein each chef......
Okay, let's try this again. The Gorbals, Ilan Hall's new downtown restaurant, will open this Saturday night, according to the restaurant's co-owner Natan Zion. Or at least he's pretty sure it will open. "About 80%" sure. Apparently they were good to go when the electricity went out just as the......
This story in via the AP from Iowa City, Iowa, home of the unbeaten University of Iowa Hawkeyes, the Iowa Writers Workshop, this writer and, apparently, a large zombie community that frequents the local Panchero's Mexican restaurant. This needs to be quoted in full: "Iowa City police are investigating an......
Blame it on the ghost of Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose Austrian beerhaus Schatzi am Main (oops, on Main) formerly occupied the location of Caché restaurant (and whose portrait, circa Terminator, still graces the elevator lobby). Caché chef Josiah Citrin (Mélisse) is how hosting monthly cigar dinners in his restaurant's outdoor bar......
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