Gerry Furth-Sides and Roberta Deen) At Israeli Chef-owner Tomy Talio’s Hummus Bar and Grill restaurant in Tarzana Village Shopping Center on Ventura Boulevard, one of the blissful add-ons is the plentiful parking that makes a trip to the valley start with a smile. You might expect a variety of Hummus, Babaganoush, and warm...
Easter menu trends may be pointing toward more comfort food, the settings can also be more formal and still fun. Judging from our meal at Maple in Descanso Gardens, we highly recommend any of the following offerings for this 2019 season. Descanso Gardens’ Maple offers a special Easter brunch menu including the Belgian...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Food plays a huge part in the Eastern Orthodox doctrine. The church directs that Pascha must take place after the Jewish Passover to maintain the timeline of Christ’s life and also celebrate life. Eastern Orthodox Greeks are in church services the entire evening, then stay up till dawn with family an...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Culina Vinoteca and Chef de Cuisine Luca Moriconi’s Modern Tuscan Cuisine transform the corner of the lush Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills into the inviting, sleek Culina & Vinoteca. As refined and engaging as he is talented, Chef de Cuisine Moriconi leads leads a family here....
New novel passover and easter restaurant feasts start even before the official holidays this year at Black Angus Steakhouse and Harissa restaurant. Spago celebrates both holidays over a week-end. Our favorite special occasion restaurant, Black Angus Steakhouse lengthens the Easter season this year by featuring all-nat...
(Gerry Furth-Sides and Roberta Deen) Easter is the most sacred holiday for Eastern Orthodox and Western Christians. This year new ways to celebrate the season at home are trendy but traditional. The list starts with Whole Foods Stores nationwide selection of KAYCO products in March and April: Kedem Biodynamic Grape Juice Yeh...
CORTEO, which means cortege in Italian, is a joyous procession, a festive parade imagined by a clown. The show brings together the passion of the actor with the grace and power of the acrobat to plunge the audience into a theatrical world of fun, comedy and spontaneity situated in a mysterious space between heaven and earth. [&...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Adya Restaurant Owner-Chef Shachi Mehra is known to ” dig deep into the complexities of Curry” with her renowned interactive “CURRY 101 COOKING CLASS” so that students can then recreate the dishes at home. And, who can resist a class taught on a “Boxcar Patio” at the A...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) ADYA is an authentic Indian restaurant created by Chef Shachi Mehra to be a reflection of modern India. Tucked into a corner of the Anaheim Packing House complex, the atmosphere is bright and breezy and a throwback to a more simple, relaxed time when the area outside was filled with orange groves. There [&hel...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) It literally was a “dark and stormy night” for the media preview of Masters of Taste 2019 this year. After a two-hour drive to the Rose Bowl, the excitement of the event started right at the gate where the chefs hailed us from their cooking in a temporary outdoor kitchen in a drizzling [&helli...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 