(Content and photos supplied by Dine LBC) Dine LBC – Long Beach (California) Restaurant Week returns August 3 – 11, 2019 with enticing ethnic options. . Participating restaurants and food retailers will be offering multi-course, “value-oriented” meals and special deals set at one of six price points: $5, $15, $2...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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 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...
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...
On June 25 at the newly opened L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele, celebrated chefs and Smiling Pizza Project founding partners, the legendary Chris Bianco (Pizzeria Bianco, AZ), Jonathan Goldsmith (Spacca Napoli Pizzeria, Chicago), and Steve Samson (Rossoblu, LA) will join forces with the renowned da Michele team, Pizzaiolo Michel...
The Prosecco DOC Consortium presented a Prosecco DOC Masterclass as part of National Prosecco Week although it turns out that, just as with French champagne and Spanish Cava these days, “any time” is the right time to drink Prosecco, and not just in the well-known Brunch Bellini. Versatile Prosecco also pairs p...
Middle Eastern pastry knafeh, which reigns over Ramadan, is so important that a shop was named after it. And, as the owner explains while pointing out to his wall of media write-ups, he is nationally known for it. Proof is in the fact that there are similar bakeries in Chicago and yet he still […]...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 