Restaurant: La Sandia Location: 395 Santa Monica Place 305N,Santa Monica, CA 90401. Tel. 310.393.3300 Date: March 5, 2011 Cuisine: Mexican Rating: Tasty, but some serious service issues need working out. I’ve been questing through the various new offerings in the retrofitted Santa…
Restaurant: Caffe Delfini Location: 147 West Channel Road, Santa Monica, CA 90402. tel (310) 459-8823 Date: February 6, 2011 Cuisine: Italian Rating: Good Italian, great value! Caffe Delfini is one of our regular “sunday night” places. LA has a lot of neighborhood…
Restaurant: Sushi Sushi [1, 2, 3, 4] Location: 326 1/2 Beverly Dr. Beverly Hills, CA 90212. (310) 277-1165 Date: March 1, 2011 Cuisine: Japanese Sushi Rating: Old school sushi – fantastic fish and presentation! ANY CHARACTER HERE After discovering this place about a…
Restaurant: Piccolo [1, 2] Location: 5 Dudley Ave, Venice, Ca. 310-314-3222 Date: February 26, 2011 Cuisine: Northern Italian Rating: Neighborhood Italian, hybridizing toward modern. Piccolo is a neighborhood Italian located in a rather sketchy area of the venice boardwalk. For a previous review,…
Restaurant: Momed Location: 233 S Beverly Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90212. (310) 270-4444 Date: January 31 & April 16, 2011 Cuisine: Modern Middle Eastern Rating: Interesting, and tasty modernized Middle Eastern. ANY CHARACTER HERE I met a friend here for lunch. I…
Restaurant: Kreation Kafe Location: 1023 Montana Ave. Santa Monica, CA 90403. (310) 458-4880 Date: January 21, 2011 Cuisine: Modern Mediterranean Rating: Tasty and modernized take on kabobs and mezzas On the once bustling Montana (now home to more than a few empty…
Restaurant: Rustic Canyon [1, 2, 3, 4] Location: 1119 Wilshire Blvd. Santa Monica, Ca 90401. 310-393-7050 Date: February 25, 2011 Cuisine: Farmer’s Market Californian Summary: Excellent Seasonal New American ANY CHARACTER HERE As a seasonal market driven California restaurant Rustic canyon can be counted on to mix up…
Restaurant: Palmeri [1, 2] Location: 11650 San Vicente Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90049. (310) 442-8446 Date: February 13, 2011 Cuisine: Italian Rating: Great, and good value. ANY CHARACTER HERE Palmeri is one of Brentwood’s vast array of Italian restaurants. It’s one of our favorites though…
Restaurant: Sunnin Location: 1776 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024 (310) 475-3358 Date: December 24, 2010 Cuisine: Lebanese Rating: Cheap tasty Lebanese A couple years ago I had an office a couple blocks from Sunnin, and we used to go…
Restaurant: Gladstones [1, 2] Location: 17300 Pacific Coast HwyPacific Palisades, CA 90272. (310) 454-3474 Date: Jan 18, 2011 Cuisine: American Seafood Summary: Updated classic coastal seafood Just 48 hours after our Sunday trip down the coast to Paradise Cove (REVIEW…
Restaurant: Paradise Cove Location: 28128 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, California 90265. 310-457-2503 Date: Jan 16, 2011 Cuisine: American Summary: Great place to spend the day. Food is fine but hardly inspired. Sunday morning rolled around, January 16, and the temperature…
Restaurant: Nobu Malibu [1, 2, 3] Location: 3835 Cross Creek Road # 18, Malibu, CA 90265 (310) 317-9140 Date: February 16, 2011 Cuisine: Japanese Fusion Rating: Maintains it’s very high standards, and price. In my continuing quest to eat the oceans of the…
Restaurant: Drago [1, 2] Location: 2628 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90403. T: 310/828-1585 Date: February 5 & October 15, 2011 Cuisine: Italian Rating: One of LA’s top Italians! _ Celestino Drago and his brothers have a bit of a mini Italian culinary empire…
Restaurant: Capo [1, 2, 3] Location: 1810 Ocean Ave, Santa Monica, Ca. 310-394-5550 Date: February 14, 2011 Cuisine: Italian with Cal influences Rating: Well done, particularly for a special night. _ Valentines is tricky restaurant-wise, and rarely shows off a place at it’s best. The economics…
Restaurant: Takao [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] Location: 11656 San Vicente Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90049. (310) 207-8636 Date: March 9, 2010 and February 12, 2011 Cuisine: Japanese / Sushi Rating: 9/10 creative “new style” sushi _ Takao is my local outlet…
Restaurant: Sushi Sushi [1, 2, 3, 4] Location: 326 1/2 Beverly Dr. Beverly Hills, CA 90212. (310) 277-1165 Date: February 11, 2011 Cuisine: Japanese Sushi Rating: Old school sushi – fantastic fish and presentation! ANY CHARACTER HERE Last week I ate at this…
Restaurant: Saam [1, 2, 3] Location: 465 S La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048. 310.246.5555 Date: February 10, 2011 Cuisine: Spanish influenced Molecular Gastronomy Rating: Awesome, even better than The Bazaar. _ I’ve been to The Bazaar (REVIEW HERE) about 8-10 times. For the…
Restaurant: Xino [1, 2] Location: 395 Santa Monica PlSte 308Santa Monica, CA 90401. (310) 755-6220 Date: February 7, 2011 Cuisine: Modern Dim sum Rating: A little heavy, but I’m glad to have some more good dim sum on the westside. Xino is another…
