(Gerry Furth-Sides) When the owner is the chef you know the food will be as it gets, and Chef Sonni of Karma, Valencia proves the point. The front of the house is exuberantly well-attended by Alfred Godinho (Goa) and Dustin Pausha (Bombay) who are as adept and excited about their new list of spirits as […]...
Venice Boulevard in West Los Angeles, with its many blocks dotted with Indian restaurants, sweet and spice shops and even a major temple, has evolved into a “Little India” second only to Artesia. And Mayura Indian Restaurant has become the official star of the show, in part due to the blessing of a prominent LA […]...
New India’s Oven featuring Exotic Cuisine of India offers new Singh family management and a variety of Northern and Southern Indian dishes. A daily buffet and champagne week-end brunch offers a wide variety of changing dishes. Pepper shrimp and Hayward 5000 Indian Beer are the latest on the list of most popular. E...
Wheel House Cheese Shop now offers a thoughtfully curated rare and exclusive selection of hand-picked, small-production, Wine, Beer and Ciders to pair with its vast assortment of fromage, charcuterie and other products. New offerings include more than 30 Wines, over 20 Craft Beers and three Ciders, though owners Alex Josef (w...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Spice Affair looks to fill big footprints in its Beverly Hills home on Restaurant Row. It replaces Gaylord’s and Tanzore (all in the same family) with brand new owners and management on a street where size and opulence once reigned. These days, all but historic institutions, such as Lawry’s The Prime Rib ...
(Gerry Furth-Sides)Tart Restaurant Chef Keith Shutta has created a satisfying fun feast for the season minus the fuss or time in the kitchen. The special seasonal dinners are available from November 15th-27th, 12pm-10pm daily. The dinner, like the restaurant and the regular menu itself, is a mishmash of styles and ideas, a...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Long-time resident and artist, Susan Amend, treated us to luscious limes and lemons from her backyard studio garden for a fragrant, homey start to the Ojai Studio ArtistsTour 2015. It captured the little hamlet’s ethereal feeling we always experience there, starting with our first other-wo...
I never had a problem with determining the number of calories in a chocolate-covered vanilla Dairy Queen cone (a scant 150!). But I realized lately that it is the (relatively) healthy foods thatcan be a challenge – I come from a “clean your plate” family dining table and a mindset that all salads have about ...
What caught our eye was the simplicity of both preparing and serving from a single piece of cookware in DELICIOUS ONE-POT DISHES, published this fall ($9.95) by food columnist, radio host, and cookbook author Linda Gassenheimer. There is just enough of an ethnic twist and ingredients to make Gassenheimer’s newest collection o...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Smart brown and white awning signage announces John Kelly Chocolates at the company’s five-year-old “factory store,” on a quiet, residential Hollywood street off the Boulevard. Even the exterior announces that everything is about presentation. The clean, classic Spanish red tiled roof and tiles on the w...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 