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...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Ulises Torrentera’s mission to put a spotlight onto authentic, artisan mezcal has transformed the reputation of this spirit formerly regarded as a peasant drink. His visits to the United States from his native Oaxaca are now a big event. The first stop this year was appropriately at Maestro Mexican Rest...
(Roberta Deen) In Las Vegas, “Chinatown” is a “stir-fry” of many different Asian countries. There is a jumble of Thai grocery stores, Indian restaurants and tiny Hawaiian sites. Viet Nam, other southeastern Asian, Japanese and, of course, Chinese eateries and shops are all to be found on a stretch of Spri...
(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&...
(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...
(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...
(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 […]...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 