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  • Gelson’s “Taste of France” Ready-to-Serve Bastille Day Meals

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) Gelson’s Markets “Taste of France” celebration includes not only samplings of authentic French products but breakfast, lunch and dinner meals ready to serve.  The finest champagnes are also being offered in a new format. In the bakery, Taste of France offers croissant and brioche, and the v...

  • Concern Foundations’s 45th Annual Block Party Features Favorite Ethnic Eateries

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) We’ve been affiliated and supporting concern Foundation for a generation now, and even scooped ice cream for Robin Rose one year when the event took place in Beverly Hills on Rodeo Drive. Saturday evening July 13, 2019 Concern Foundation’s 45th Annual Block Party will be CALIFORNIA DREAMING to Conquer...

  • India’s Tandoori Brentwood’s New Authentic Bangladesh Catering Menu

    (Gerry Furth-Sides, photos are identified)India’s Tandoori Restaurant, Brentwood is already a neighborhood favorite that includes celebrities who hold gatherings there that can last an entire evening  and turn the place into one big party – like the one we were at last Sunday.  It is fitting then that beloved, dedi...

  • Celebrate Bastille Day Everyday at Gelson’s with Our Longtime French Favorites

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) This writer has always been enamored with the French sensibility, first with a fellow lifeguard at camp, then all films French and finally food.  The finest dining LA restaurants and pioneer bistros.  And now the current Gelson Market’s three-week July French promotion is especially exciting because s...

  • The Inside Story of Legendary Mori Sushi

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) The person who answers the phone at legendary Mori Sushi still insists you are calling “Mori”himself, and the name is very much on the raggedy but intact outside sign with the famous fish logo.  The sushi served inside these days has very much the same touch but it not because Mori is there. [&he...

  • Startling Paleo-Pleasing Veggie Menu at Upper West

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) It is no secret that the yellow corn soup at Upper West is one of the best veggie dishes at any restaurant in town, let alone any dish.  And we were happily surprised, at this place with a long beef and protein menu, to find an entire section of vegetarian dishes that make […]...

  • 10th Annual LA Food Fest June 29th Brings Mexican Superstar Chefs

    The 10th Annual LA Food Fest takes place on Saturday, June 29th, 2019 from 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm on the grassy infield of historic Santa Anita Park. The event features the best of Mexican cuisine from Mexico’s most highly-rated chefs and restaurants.  The 10th Annual LA Food Fest also brings 5,000 foodies and 100+ rest...

  • Culina at the Four Seasons’s New Pronto Market Lunch Transports Diners to Italy

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) If this looks like an inviting place, room after room with a garden right outside each window, (You won’t want to leave even on a cloudy Spring day.) that’s because it is the Colina Restaurant, Four Seasons, Beverly Hills.  The inviting air wins you over before you even taste the faultless cuisin...

  • Messhall Kitchen Updates Historic Los Feliz Landmark

    (Gerry Furth-Sides, Roberta Deen) Messhall Kitchen in Los Feliz (4500 Los Feliz Boulevard, corner of Vermont) has a heritage to uphold as the only building left that formerly housed a Brown Derby, and in fact, in the succession of businesses, even a solo bank which is adjacent now.  Messhall Kitchen these days takes not from...

  • Celebrate World Martini Day with a Gin Cocktail and Compelling Summer Read: The Gin Companion

    In celebration of World Martini Day today, we’d like to share the recipe for the Rosé Fifty–Fifty – the preferred way to celebrate the holiday, or really every day, according to Plymouth Gin Master Distiller Sean Harrison. The Rose Venice serves this Plymouth Fifty-Fifty Martini, by special request of gu...