THE confection-filled bakery case sparkles in the combined light from a crystal chandelier and sunshine slanting through a graceful two-story bank of windows. Inside the case, cakes sit coquettishly in a row: a tall green tea chiffon cake, its whipped cream frosting tamed into sculptural swoops, or a dome-shaped strawberry cake, fresh berries peeking through the frosting to give an effect of a meadow under snow.
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Entertainment | S. Irene Virbila | August 11, 2008
CULVER CITY continues to bust out in new restaurants, so much so that on a weekend night it can be tough to find a spot in one of the city's (free) parking structures.
At dusk, electronic billboards light up all along Vermont and Western avenues. Their glowing images flick and spin, pumping life into Korean-language signs advertising everything from karaoke bars to old-country herbal cures.
There's a wonderful lightness about Korean cuisine that makes it possible to eat a 20-course dinner and then spring up from the table like Michael Jordan.
"This is one of the finest things I ever put in my mouth," raved a friend I took to Jeon Ju. Of course, he's a Korean food fanatic, ravenous for anything with garlic and the Korean pickled vegetables called kimchi.
Entertainment | S. Irene Virbila | August 11, 2008
CULVER CITY continues to bust out in new restaurants, so much so that on a weekend night it can be tough to find a spot in one of the city's (free) parking structures. And so valet stations are popping up. Now there's one on Culver Boulevard in front of two side-by-side new restaurants -- Rush Street (casual Chicago-inspired eats with two bars) and Gyenari (a Korean barbecue restaurant with potential crossover appeal).
THE confection-filled bakery case sparkles in the combined light from a crystal chandelier and sunshine slanting through a graceful two-story bank of windows.
Every morning when Park Jin-soo wakes in his studio apartment in Seoul, his wife and three children are just sitting down for dinner at their house in Montgomery, Va.
The American cookbook publishing industry pays little attention to Korean food, a gap especially apparent in Los Angeles, where, despite the presence of a vibrant Koreatown, the cuisine remains as mystifying to non-Asians as it is intriguing.
At dusk, electronic billboards light up all along Vermont and Western avenues. Their glowing images flick and spin, pumping life into Korean-language signs advertising everything from karaoke bars to old-country herbal cures.
California | Local | Rodney Bosch | September 4, 1999
When conjuring home-style cooking, area restaurant-goers probably don't picture the likes of bulgogi or bibimbab. But these and other traditional Korean dishes are just what Jung Suk Kim has brought from her kitchen to the recently opened Bobilu's restaurant in Oxnard.