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Ten for ’20 [dining feature]
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The 10 best restaurants to open last year span the culinary and budget landscapes
Many fine restaurants opened in the Beach Cities in 2019 – but you probably already noticed that. Visiting all of them is an adventure that takes you from modest cafes to elegant, curated spaces, with coffeehouses, grocery store lunch counters, mini-malls, and office parks along the way. As always, it’s a struggle to compile a […]
Restaurant titans Chez Mélange, Abigaile announce closures
The two restaurants launched careers and trends, but both will soon shutter
Less than two weeks into the new year, South Bay diners were hit with not one but two bombshells: two restaurants that changed the area’s culinary culture were closing. Chez Mélange opened in 1982, Abigaile in 2012. Both launched trends that continue to shape the South Bay. When Chez Mélange opened the South Bay restaurant […]
Decadence switched, Front Porch opens, Serbian in Segundo, Tunisian feast, and other restaurant news
A La Carte column for 16 January 2020
This is usually a quiet time on the restaurant front, when the tourist trade is at its ebb and dinner specials prop up a slow season. That is not the case this week. The South Bay restaurant scene has been rocked by the announcement of the imminent closures of Chez Mélange and Abigaile. (See related […]
Most Excellent Mosa [restaurant review]
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Mosa Coastal brings an artistic fusion to south Hermosa Beach
If you see only one canvas by a painter, you’ll have a glimpse at their sense of composition, their skill at brushwork, perhaps their inventiveness with color. And that’s all, a glimpse, because you don’t know the context of the piece. Was it their first sale or a mature work, perhaps a commission rather than […]
Plenty of flavor, no meat [restaurant review]
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The Grain Café in Redondo offers strikingly good vegan food with a Mexican twist
As you walk into The Grain Café in Redondo, you see a large painted and carved image of a Mayan cuddling a tapir, a Central American animal that resembles a cross between a pig and a miniature elephant. This is an unusual image because tapirs aren’t generally companionable, and are aggressive when defending their territory. […]
2019 Dining in review – Restaurants go round ‘n round
Trump dining tariff in the offing?
ES dining – Hub for grub at The Proud Bird
The Proud Bird is an LA-centric foodbar hidden near the airport and offering a well prepared variety
Barsha serving again, other restaurants delayed, Mickey’s raising funds for ALS, and more restaurant news
A La Carte column for 19 December 2019
Eating My Words For Lunch: In last week’s review I made a rather large goof, so I’m starting this week’s column with a retraction. I said that Caffe Tre Venezie was the only Italian-style coffeehouse in the South Bay, which it isn’t. Redondo’s Roman Aroma has a similar dedication to authentic Italian coffee, panini, and […]