South Bay Restaurants Take-out Guide: Good Stuff delivers 700 take-out meals to hospital workers
South Bay restaurants step up take-out during dining-in prohibition. Good stuff delivers 700 meals to hospitals
Tee for Two at Pacific Standard Prime
Former pro golfer Kevin Leach found his passion for wine in a place that has never produced a drop of it. “I was stuck in the airport, and the only magazine I could find in English was a copy of Wine Spectator. I read it from cover to cover, classifieds and everything, five times. […]
ES dining – The Butcher, The Baker, and the Cappuccino Maker
Low visibility, high concept
Eruption in Redondo, a bittersweet farewell and a quadrennial wine dinner [dining news]
Starting The Year Running: Once in a while a neighborhood erupts in openings, and it seems to be Redondo’s turn. Starting in the south, after a long remodeling job, Matty’s Crawdaddies is serving in Riviera Village. They are seafood-centric but serving much more than peel-and-eat shellfish. You can get scallops, shrimp, chowder, a Connecticut lobster […]
2019 Dining in review – Restaurants go round ‘n round
Trump dining tariff in the offing?
A fish house reimagined at Riviera House Redondo Beach
The new Riviera House gets almost everything right
Strategic restraint [restaurant review]
Terranea’s Catalina Kitchen Friday night buffet may be too much of a good thing.
A name change, new places for Thai, Hawaiian, Chinese and Mexican
Common Complaint, Technological Response… Look at any survey of diners and one of the top complaints will be uncomfortably noisy restaurants. Since my email is at the end of each of these columns I hear this a lot, often with admonitions that I should tell people how loud restaurants are. I frequently do mention this, […]
Waterman’s Aims High [restaurant review]
Despite having grown up up eight blocks from the beach, I never learned to surf, as I was so nearsighted that I couldn’t see the waves that were about to swamp me. Even so, that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy watching surfers and have an appreciation for surf music and surf culture. Those things seep […]
Riviera comes to the Riviera [Restaurant Review]
Gabi James introduces flavors from Southern Spain and France to the Redondo Riviera
Once In A Red Moon [restaurant review]
The housemade crusty bread served on seating shows Luna Rossa is putting its woodfired oven to good use
Beach Dining – Revolution at The Rockefeller [restaurant review]
What started out as a burger-and-a-beer spot unveils a new menu by Primo Italia chef Michelangelo Aliarga
Rui Ji – Mystery from China’s Southwest
For anyone who isn’t familiar with Sichuan cuisine, a meal at Rui Ji may be a challenge, but that’s exactly the reason to go there
Wild, But Civilized [restaurant review]
Sometimes I’m delighted to be proved wrong. Usually that’s when I’m being pessimistic, as was the case when a restaurant in North Manhattan Beach closed and someone asked me to speculate about what would move in. “Something more expensive and aimed at an upscale crowd,” I answered. It was a safe bet based on present […]
Mexican, the way it used to be [Restaurant Review]
The illusion here is as potent as the margaritas
Garden Thai offers authentic Thai heat in Redondo Beach
The Garden Thai in small strip mall restaurant has little going on when it comes to ornamentation, but their cooking has the subtle use of powerful spices that is the hallmark of Thai cuisine.