Emma Courtland

The Tokyo-based Global Dining, Inc. opened their fourth U.S. Gonpachi Restaurant location last Thursday in the new Miyako Hybrid Hotel in Torrance. Situated close to LAX, near the corporate headquarters of Japanese corporate giants Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Honda, and Toyota, the Torrence location caters primarily to Japanese businessmen staying......

After a couple false starts, the eagerly awaited Umami Truck made its debut Wednesday night at Festivus 2009 at the Crocker Club downtown. And soon Umami-owner Adam Fleischman's new mobile food venture will bring the fifth taste to the streets, which are daily growing more crowded with gourmet food trucks......

For those who observe the once-yearly ritual of watery eggs and heavily cased sausage that is breakfast with Santa: this weekend, the Patina Restaurant Group is offering a number of options to make (at least the eating part of) breakfast with the Big Guy practically painless. On Saturday, December 12th,......

In its large bowls of Vietnamese noodles, 9021Pho, which opened yesterday on in the former Cristoni location on North Beverly Drive, is a perfect reflection of the city in which it resides. Beverly Hills: aesthetic, health-conscious, white. The restaurant is from Kimmy Tang (whose Michelia closed last year) and specializes......

Dinner and a movie, the quintessential first date. You get to talk, then not talk. It's perfect. But combine both under the same roof, with pillows and blankets available upon request, and it's an entirely new (perhaps perfecter, depending on the person) ball game. At the new Gold Class Cinema......

There may be moments tomorrow when it seems that you will be forever stuffed, moments in which you think you will never eat again. "Stick a fork in me," you'll say and mean it. But we assure you, there will come a day when you are no longer stuffed. And......

Soda Pop's, a new mid-city lunch spot, soft-opened Wednesday on La Cienega. The menu is divided in to old and new school, hot and cold sandwiches, ranging in price from $7-$12 and salads. Custom-built wooden tables, benches and a bar, plus antique school chairs make the place look clean, but......

THE Beverly Hills deli, Nate 'n Al has opened a second location in the Lakes shopping center in Thousand Oaks. The new location opened on Tuesday to a crowd eager to for their very own Nate 'n Al experience: bowls of chicken matzo-ball soup and The Hollywood smothered in Russian......

Bricks and Scones is the perfect name for Larchmont's newest café. Not because it's housed in a brick building and serves scones--though I suppose it's fitting for that reason too--but because this evocation of a schoolyard rhyme captures the lovable quality of the place. The red brick walls are decorated......

White walls with painted human silhouettes and limited seating make All About the Bread, the new mid-city sandwich joint, seem at first rather cold and severe, like a spectre Italian deli. The shop, which soft-opened a couple weeks ago between M Cafe and the recently opened T-Salon, has yet to......