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Best of the Beach 2020 Ballot: Dining and Entertainment
Show your support and appreciation for your favorite dining and entertainment businesses by voting them Best of the Beach 2020.
Tee for Two at Pacific Standard Prime
by Richard Foss 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, […]
Eruption in Redondo, a bittersweet farewell and a quadrennial wine dinner [dining news]
A La Carte column for 13 February 2019
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]
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The Friday night "seafood forward" buffet offers so many choices that diners may want to pace themselves.
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
by Richard Foss 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 […]
Waterman’s Aims High [restaurant review]
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New chef, new look show ambition at Waterman’s Restaurant, Bar and Safehouse
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]
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Gabi James introduces flavors from Southern Spain and France to the Redondo Riviera
Once In A Red Moon [restaurant review]
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Luna Rossa in Rolling Hills Estates delivers the classics with style
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]
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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 …
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]
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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]
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The illusion at Pancho's is as potent as the margaritas.
The illusion here is as potent as the margaritas