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Tender Greens Opens in Santa Monica

Elina Shatkin
Tender Greens is on an expansion kick. After opening a Pasadena location earlier this summer, the salad-based concept opened its newest outpost this past Saturday. It's in Santa Monica at the corner of 2nd and Arizona, just around the corner from the Third Street Promenade. The executive chef is Rian......
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Menu Design in America: Taschen Book Party

Elina Shatkin
Never let it be said that the Cheese Store of Beverly Hills doesn't know how to put out a cheese plate. Last night's launch party for Menu Design in America: A Visual and Culinary History of Graphic Styles and Design, 1850-1985, one of our favorite food-themed coffee table books in......
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Chefs to Defy Foie Gras Ban?

Elina Shatkin
Foie gras, the delicacy beloved by gourmands and protested by animal rights activists, may be off California menus by next summer. SB 1520, which bans force-feeding of ducks or geese to make foie gras and forbids selling foie gras produced that way, takes effect in July 2012. It was signed......
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Chick-fil-A Hollywood Opens September 22

Elina Shatkin
The Hollywood Chick-fil-A, which we've been tracking since it broke ground in December 2010, will finally open on Thursday, September 22nd. Located at the corner of Sunset and Highland, it will open around 6 a.m. Get in line now. 100 adults will receive free Chick-fil-A for a year. Registration for......
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Radio Room Returns to The Edison: Tonight!

Elina Shatkin
After a year-long hiatus, Radio Room returns to The Edison tonight with special San Francisco guests The Bon Vivants (i.e. Scott Baird and Josh Harris) alongside local bartender Alex Straus of Hemingway's. Thirsty In LA has a full list of the half-dozen specialty cocktails ($15 each), which include concoctions like......
A burger from Burger Lounge (left); exterior of the chain's Sunset Strip location.

Burger Lounge Looks to Culver City

Elina Shatkin
San Diego chain Burger Lounge, which is preparing to open its first Los Angeles location, is looking at opening a second location, possibly in the Santa Maria Barbeque space in Culver City. The first L.A. outpost, located on the sunset Strip in West Hollywood, is under construction and should in......
Spicy chicken pops at Lukshon.; Credit: Anne Fishbein

307 Restaurants Participate in dineLA Fall 2011 Restaurant Week

Elina Shatkin
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 this time around, you'll get to choose among......
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Granada Hills Cracks Down on Food Trucks

Elina Shatkin
The newest front in the Food Truck Wars is Granada Hills, where 10 inspectors from the L.A. County Department of Public Health showed up on Wednesday night to raid "Food Truck Night" along Chatsworth Avenue between Zelzah and White Oak. The crackdown follows the usual complaints from local brick-and-mortar businesses......
Skinnygirl Margarita.

Real Housewives' Toxic Margarita Pulled from Whole Foods

Elina Shatkin
Bethenny Frankel, "diet guru" and former "star" of "reality" show The Real Housewives of New York City, doesn't care that her "all natural" Skinnygirl Margarita contains potentially carcinogenic ingredients, which caused Whole Foods to pull the "drink" from its stores. The ingredient in question is sodium benzoate, a preservative that......