Food & Drink
Lien Ta is incredibly resilient, and my visits to her colorful Silver Lake corner were consistently memorable, but All Day Baby ultimately couldn’t survive mercurial market forces and the heartbreaking loss of her co-founder, chef Jonathan Whitener.
We’ve enjoyed a revolution in great Chinese, from high-end Hutong to a dozen wonderful Szechuanese and Fukienese spots in the east and west 30s to tiny Cantonese joints on Mott Street — all chopped liver to Michelin.
The improbably excellent, sleek and stylish restaurant on the fourth floor of the Louis Vuitton store is the best eating place ever to co-exist with $10,700 Cappucine BB handbags and $1,460 LV “trainer” sneakers.
Eater spoke with a source close to Long Beach’s Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles who suggested that the inflatable was meant for an event at an adjacent bar called Seabird Jazz Lounge.
On a chilly Monday evening in mid-November, chef Dave Beran moves lightly around the dimly lit space that will become Seline, his new restaurant tucked behind a brick-lined retail complex along Main Street in Santa Monica.
Fettuccine prepared tableside in a Parmesan cheese wheel, bone marrow risotto, and tagliolini with preserved Meyer lemons, scampi crudo tartare, and caviar round out the pasta selections.
Corteza’s Christmas Day feast, which takes place on the 24th floor of the Ritz Carlton Downtown from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., includes radicchio with roasted butternut squash, prime rib-eye, whipped potatoes, Parker House rolls with butter, and the option to add on half a lobster.