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  • New Georgia’s Restaurant with Second Generation Twist

    (Content courtesy of Georgia’s Restaurant, photos courtesy of Acura-Hansen) The term “second generation” has a different twist at the new Georgia’s Restaurant  in Long Beach at the new Long Beach Exchange (LBX).   The original five-year-old location in Anaheim. Georgia’s Restaurant features southern cuisine ...

  • Destination-Drive Winner Southern Spice Restaurant in Lawndale

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) Southern Spice Restaurant, although right off the 405, may be a little off the beaten restaurant path but certainly worth the drive for the Southern Indian food alone.   Add to that the “southern hospitality” with an owner always on site to welcome you, a chef to explain the dishes in detail, and...

  • How to Celebrate Tequila Day July 24 with New Mezcal Cocktails

    Gerry Furth-Sides) Celebrate Mezcal Day July 24 with these new cocktails and our favorite mezcaleria.   Mezcal is processed from a variety of agave plants (that includes tequila) and that instills a special smoky taste. The heart of the agave plant, the piña, is traditionally slow-cooked in pit ovens, giving it a characteris...

  • Behind the Scenes Book Signing/Sampling: OPA! Healthy Greek Cookbook

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) A “healthy Greek” cuisine cookbook is an idea of the present; we tried doing a book like this as ordered from the publisher a generation ago with the popular, Greek  restaurant owner-chef,  Sofi Konstantinidis.  Sofi felt that the heavier staples of the classics was what gave them “oomph&...

  • 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...

  • 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 […]...