Another crazy birthday bash — this time at brand new Italian steakhouse Pistola…
What better way to spend Friday afternoon than with a big wine lunch accompanied by awesome Cantonese cuisine…
For decades, Empress Pavilion has been a Grande Dame of LAs Chinatown scene, offering up Cantonese and Cantonese American fare…
A great night with some really top notch wines and tasty wine-friendly gastropub food…
Nothing like another great lunchtime mega sushi omakase…
Beijing Tasty House is a newcomer to the busy SGV Chinese Restaurant scene, offering up a wide variety of Beijing and Western Chinese specialties…
The Grand Cru of Trimbach Clos St Hune is a rare enough dry riesling, but to enjoy 16 vintages — along with a member of the Trimbach family… unique indeed!
This gorgeous Brentwood/Santa Monica space has turned over a bit lately, but if the midtown Little Door is any indicator, that might just have changed…
41 Ocean is a members only private club located in a historic 1920s building on Ocean Avenue. But can it handle 30 hedonists?
Another upscale Szechuan place opens in the SGV (Chuan’s). We are just so blessed with a bounty of peppery goodness…
Daikokuya is a DTLA hotspot recognized for it’s top flight ramen — top flight, not top — and it’s moved to the Westside…
This peculiar Chinese/Korean hybrid in K-Town serves up seriously yummy fare at great prices…
Tsujita, master of the porky ramen, brightens up Sawtelle with a new high-end, very traditional sushi bar…
I went back again to Shanghai #1 for dimsum and have chronicled even more delectables…
Another LA Italian with a kitchen running on all cylinders…
Enter the Dirty Dozen, the new Hedonist blind tasting club…
Suckling pig, crazy dry ice lobster, deep fried bullfrog, and other Cantonese goodies…
How can it be? Less than a week and another mega hedonist house party!
Fairly authentic Szechuan food in a mainstream American mall?
A stunning combo of amazing setting, country French food, and the best Burgundy. Enter to see Hedonism at its finest…
