Chef Onil Chibas learned today that California's State Theatre, the Pasadena Playhouse, which adjoins Chibas' just-opened Elements Kitchen, will close after its February 7th performance. The theatre has long been plagued with financial troubles. When Chibas decided last year to expand Elements Café a to a full-size restaurant, he knew......
Sometimes, sipping splendid tequila is all the day needs for sunset to fall the way it should. And the guy who may best know tequila in these parts is Julian Cox, the Rising Star winning mixologist at downtown's Rivera restaurant. After opening downtown LA's Roy's in 2005, and tiring of......
Pasadena Chef Onil Chibás thought a year ago he'd open his expanded Elements Kitchen restaurant (not to be confused with his very popular café on the corner of Fair Oaks Avenue and Dayton Street in Pasadena) by Valentine's Day. Several setbacks, mostly electrical code issues, put his plans on hold......
With the nearest Great Harvest Bread Company more than 40 miles away in Thousand Oaks, the western San Gabriel Valley's ripe for a bakery that mills its own wheat. Co-owner Patricia Diaz spent ten years researching franchises that would give her creative control without compromising corporate support. She discovered that......
Manuel Salazar and his family waited it out. They had operated Villa Sombrero, one of the long-standing Mexican restaurants in Highland Park , since the late 1970s. It's the sort of place you figure will always be there, because it seems it always had been. Just over a year ago,......
