A La Carte: South Bay Dining News, 10/30/14
Chef Dominique Theval celebrates the anniversary of his restaurant in Redondo Beach. Maybe We’ll Change The Name To Little Italy… After years of a quiet but diverse restaurant scene, Riviera Village is lively and increasingly looking like a suburb of Naples. News is that Gina Lee’s, which has been serving Asian-inspired contemporary cuisine, will soon become a high-end Italian restaurant. Since Locale 90 and the Bottle Inn opened this year and Bottega Romana is coming soon, this marks a remarkable neighborhood shift toward Italian cuisine, one not mirrored elsewhere in the South Bay. One restaurant bucks the trend – whatever Jed Sanford and Tin Vuong are doing at the former Buona Sera, it is reportedly not Italian… And Two Anniversaries… Two Redondo restaurants are celebrating: Chez Melange, which hits 37 on November 17th, and Dominique’s Kitchen, which just turned two. It’s impossible to measure how much Chez Melange changed the dining culture of the South Bay – they brought sophisticated dining and high-quality ingredients to an area where both had been in short supply. Many of the best chefs and servers around town have worked here at some time, and they’re as relevant and…
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