Entries are now in and recipes being tested by professional chefs and amateur cookss alike for the “Great Oxnard Salsa Challenge 2016″ taking place on Friday, July 29 and Sunday, July 31 during the 23rd Annual Oxnard Salsa Festival. Winning salsas for both professionals and amateurs are selected in a range of cat...
Head Chef Daniel Son at KURA offers special summer dishes to to honor the warmer months using fresh, seasonal ingredients he hand selects daily. Chef Son’s summery chilled homemade Goma (Sesame) Tofu with Sweet Summer Corn is a healthy and a favorite with Japanese diners that is enjoyed during the hot months. Goma T...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) New Santa Monica resident, Bareburger on Main Street a couple of blocks from the beach turned out to be much more than their big, fat, juicy burgers with a huge list of sandwiches, salads, fries and drinks. The DRINK MENU includes current specialty seasonal items, along with a long list of draft bee...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) A “variety of proteins and buns” and “Certified Organic ingredients” head up the aggressive marketing hype at new Santa Monica resident, Bareburger, the upstart, Greek-owned New York outfit that triumphed from the start in a down-economy. Can its most recent outpost replace the ...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) First it was called Aristoff, then it became a distant outpost of Petrossian, the legendary Paris-based outfit known for its buttery osetra and powerful sevruga. Founded in 1984, New York’s exquisite Petrossian restaurant is housed in the historic Alwyn Court Building on Manhattan’s West Si...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Along with mouth-watering views of gleaming cars will be an astonishing array of ethnic cuisine on Father’s Day fills the streets of Beverly Hills at the 23rd annual Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance. Here the newly expanded “Food Truck faire” with special Rodeo Drive/Father’s Day it...
This father’s day presents enticing opportunities for memorable dining experiences with special menus at popular restaurants (Celestino, Sol Cocina Playa Vista, ) and Drive up to gracious Pasadena to honor dad on Father’s Day the way the Italian families do it around the table with excellent food prepared from b...
Using the same logic of Airbnb but working on a home dining experience model, Rinita Vanjre Ravi, Inez Wihardjo and Giovanni Casinelli created BonAppetour. It proved such a worthy idea that early on it won the 2003 edition of Startup. BonAppetour, now actually known as ‘The Airbnb of Food,’ is an innovative web-base...
The food stakes were high at the BRIT WEEK (www.britweek.org) 2016 10th Anniversary Gala following a formal tea only days before prepared by the charismatic, Chef Darren McGrady, former private chef to Princess Diana and the Princes. Simpson’s Spotted Dick tins, jars of Seville Orange Marmalade, Stockley’s Milk...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 