Watch! You have to be driving east to west to spot the inset Kapoor’s Akbar Indian Restaurant on the north side of Cesar Chavez Boulevard just outside of DTLA. And, laughed owner Owner Avinash Kapoor, “you have to know our place is 701 West. Cesar E Chavez Ave., Suite 107, which is one of several restaurant spa...
(Gerry Furth-Sides, All images courtesy of Westfield Century City except as noted). Westfield Century City welcomes guests to TASTE, a culinary festival, to show off its new upscale restaurants and recent high end remodel. The massive scale of the place now has to be experienced to be believed. Even Gelson’s Market n...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Editor’s Note: Since this post was published, Preux & Proper no longer features Maker’s Mark. The dictionary definition of “Maker’s Mark” is the hallmark on a piece of English gold, silver, or plate denoting the person or firm responsible for its productio...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Preux & Proper’s is in a sweet two-floor version of the iconic (22 stories) New York flat-iron high-rise built in 1902. This DTLA location may be an odd match-up for New Orleans cuisine, but founder-owner Joshua Kopel, partner-Chef Sammy Monsour beautifully realize Kopel’s mission to R...
If you want edgy Indian food, head to the north end of downtown L.A. and Kapoor’s Akbar Indian restaurant. It’s on Cesar E. Chavez Avenue in a complex that once housed a Walmart....
Sofitel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills will be the sixth North American city to host ‘Sofitel en Blanc’, an all-inclusive offering which brings a new level of luxury and ease to Le Dîner en Blanc Los Angeles, the sophisticated invitation-only premier dining event of the year, on September 29, 2018. This night dedic...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Los Angeles Times’ The Taste 2018, the annual event celebrating flavors of the world prepared and hosted by acclaimed L.A. chefs and bartenders, lived up to its promise. But the evening adds up to so much more than the sum of its parts, special in a city where there are three food events a […]...
(Roberta Deen) Laurel Gallucci and Claire Thomas’ book, SWEET LAUREL, Recipes for Whole Food, Grain-Free Desserts is a guide to overcoming adversity and limitations in the home kitchen. These two friends have written the perfect “make lemonade” cookbook. Like many things, SWEET LAUREL, the bakery, was b...
Panxa Cocina translates to “kitchen of the belly” in Catalan Spanish and this month dedicated Chef Art Owner Arthur Gonzalez goes all out in the tummy-pleasing category as he celebrates the coveted Hatch chile with a special tasting menu offered through a month of the harvest, plus weekend “chile roast-out” even...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) The FARMHOUSE boasts an Executive Farmer, Nathan Peitso in a partnering with remarkable Australian-bred Chef Craig Hopson to make farm-fresh ingredients into such instant classics. I have already been recommending everyone I know to this “new and improved” shopping center restaurant incarnat...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 