BUSINESS
April 19, 1997 | SUSAN JAQUES, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Sitting in his sleek Melrose Avenue restaurant, Tommy Tang piles pieces of curried chicken, meekrob noodles and sprigs of fresh mint onto a bed of romaine lettuce, rolls it and dips it into a vinaigrette sauce. "If you eat Thai food every day, you automatically lose weight," says the chef and restaurateur in between bites. "I can eat like a pig and never gain weight."
NEWS
July 9, 1995 | HILLARY JOHNSON, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Your waiter, Dan, is wearing a purple headdress, a black wig and a tasteful, slinky gown. "It's such a drag," he says. "Every Tuesday I have to decide what to wear." A drag it literally is--every Tuesday night at Tommy Tang's on Melrose Avenue, the hip Thai restaurant that recently introduced weekly drag nights.
ENTERTAINMENT
February 3, 1995 | S. IRENE VIRBILA
When Tommy Tang opened his first restaurant in 1982, he gave Thai cooking a smart, urban edge and served it up to a big following in a hip Melrose Avenue space. The young Thai restaurateur was the first L.A. chef to go bi-coastal, opening a New York branch in 1987. (It's closed for the moment; Tang plans to reopen as soon as he finds a new location.) Last year he opened on Colorado in Pasadena's Old Town, the restaurant boom town of the moment.
ENTERTAINMENT
March 13, 1994 | LAURIE OCHOA
Twin Palms celebrates the great California outdoors--not the outdoors of nature and pine trees, but of cabanas and palm trees . . . the sunglass-shaded good life. Walk into this huge space on a weekend evening and you're apt to find yourself in the middle of what seems like a packed poolside party without the pool. A band plays in a tented stage designed to look like a bathhouse; two open-air bars, one at each end of the heated patio, are jammed.
ENTERTAINMENT
May 18, 1989 | BARBARA HANSEN, Times Staff Writer
Two events this weekend will focus attention on the cuisines of Asia. The Asian Pacific Festival and Culinary Carnival Saturday and Sunday at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood will feature chef demonstrations and booths serving foods from some 25 local restaurants. Demonstrators will include Roy Yamaguchi of Roy's restaurant in Hawaii; Tommy Tang of Tommy Tang's restaurants in New York and Los Angeles; Barbara Tropp of the China Moon Cafe in San Francisco; Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger of City restaurant and Madame Wu of Madame Wu's Garden in Los Angeles.
ENTERTAINMENT
May 12, 1989 | RUTH REICHL
If you like eating with chopsticks, love the feeling of fire in your mouth and never seem to get enough noodles, here's something you'll want to know about. On May 21, restaurants featuring food from all around the Pacific Rim will gather in Pasadena at the Pacific Asia Museum to celebrate the annual Food, Wine & Brew Festival. Some of the 20 participating restaurants include Tommy Tang's, the Fragrant Vegetable, Tito Rey of the Islands, Pho 79, Kuala Lumpur, Korean Gardens and Akbar.