Named in honor of a town near the Taj Mahal, Agra Café is as praised among experts for serving properly spiced and consistent authentic regional dishes, such as Balti as it known among USC students for being about the most popular Indian restaurants in Los Angeles. Tucked in the back corner of a small shopping plaza, [&hel...
Inotheke, a contemporary dining destination from Carolos Tomazos, is now open in Santa Monica. The dining room and bar showcases modern Greek warm, lighthearted hospitality while taking its cuisine and spirits seriously. Even the name is written in Greek. Hints of the Mediterranean Island, Cyprus, (Tomazos’ homeland)...
The invitation read: The sumptuous table setting looked like this: The deconstructed, fresh food in the Greek Nice N Easy restaurants look like this: And the story goes like this: Chef Chris Athanasiadis and restaurateur Dimitris Christoforidis who created the Nice-N-Easy Restaurants in Athens and Mikonos came from Greece to ...
Sangers & Joe’s Guest Chef, Rouha Sadighi’s Sunday Morning Feasts prove once again that no matter how formal a Pasadena neighborhood, this one being a tucked-away Old Town section lined with magnificent buildings and trees, the feeling is always friendly and inviting. “Sanger,” by the way, is the Australian t...
Sangers & Joe’s new contemporary café presents Keys To The Kitchen, an exciting lineup of guest chef dinners, playing host to international chefs who will take over the kitchen on select evenings and present full course dinner menus. Known for their hot Australian-themed cups of Joe, breakfast, salads, tasty sangers...
This season Hummusphere Foods introduces into the mainstream market the first, original smoked hummus options, including the Applewood Smoked Hummus shown above. Five unique smoked hummus varieties present a festive and a healthier choice than most dips with nearly half the calories and a fraction of the fat. Delicious flavo...
The enticing salad (wild sardines, mixed greens, pomegranates, pistachios, blackberries, diced pear and a sliver of Humboldt Fog cheese) pictured here drew oohs and ahs from food writers, but the mastermind behind its taste turns out to be Ground 2 Table herbs. The springy garden taste of fresh cilantro, dill, marjoram and thym...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) It was very exciting to look up at a shelf at WHOLE FOODS the other day and see a whole row of Erika Kerekes’ NOT KETCHUP (www.notketchup.com) sauce towering over all the other bottles. When I wrote the following article on Erika for the Santa Monica Mirror last year, word was getting out it [&hellip...
The legendary Celestino and family (pictured here at a charity event honoring them), inspired the Pasadena restaurant of the same name. name that translates into a gold standard restaurant on the westside, ever since he opened his first place, Drago. Seasonal menus demonstrate this perfectly. The Holiday Mushroom & ...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Breakfast as a major 2016 restaurant trend forecast fits right into Annapurna Southern Indian Vegetarian Restaurant. And Dosas will always have a starring role at the popular Culver City cafe with practical prices. Indian versions of “Doughnuts” and “crep...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 