IF YOU sit at the table in the window at Tara’s Himalayan Cuisine, a new cafe on Venice Boulevard in Palms, you can study a large panoramic photo under the tabletop glass.
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SQUEEZED into a narrow storefront on a touristy block of the Sunset Strip, the tiny (36-seat) Amarone resembles a North Beach trattoria in its physical layout with just four tables downstairs and another handful located up a steep staircase on the mezzanine.
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The Redlands-adjacent community of Mentone has neither a mayor nor
a city council, but it’s the fortunate home of Casa Maya, one of the
few Yucatecan restaurants in Southern California.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that American people in
possession of a good appetite must be in want of a cozy Italian
restaurant in their neighborhood.
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Thanksgiving, like so many of humankind’s rituals, celebrates
transformation, and the golden brown color of its centerpiece food –
glistening roast turkey – symbolizes not only the transformation of
the seasons, but the turning of strangers into friends, pilgrims into
homebodies, anecdote into myth.
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IN contrast to the boisterous spots where sake drinkers gather
around a communal table, there’s a quiet, elegant new izakaya, or
Japanese pub-style cafe, in Studio City.
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For every high-profile restaurant that opens in downtown
L.A.
these days, three small, on-your-block cafes spring into life,
nothing to make a big deal about in other parts of town.
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Oxo’s new corn-cutting tool gives the lie to Gypsy Rose Lee’s
axiom that “ya gotta have a gimmick” to make it as a stripper.
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FOR a wine and food mecca, Santa Barbara is usually pretty quiet
on the restaurant news front.
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