I’d say I just about fit that description! I mean, I did love Ubuntu. I’d read about the restaurant in the Times a few years ago and had had it on my must-eat list steadily since then. Finally, a reason to go emerged! We were invited upstate (as I like to call it) by some [...]

Looking pretty good… Giving cred where cred is due.

Last night after driving 12 hours from a Memorial Day blowout crawfish boil in Park City, we finally got back to the LA area around 11:30p. Passing through the SGV, we decided to stop for some late night Chinese snacks at Dragon Mark, which I kept calling Snack Dragon.. a mexican late night place in [...]

Sometimes LA is the coolest place ever. Like when one of your favorite restaurants from your Soho days in NYC finally opens in the Country Mart a mile from your house, you go tot he opening night, it’s not that crowded, and Cindy freaking Crawford is there. All of that actually happened last night. Now, [...]

Taylor and I were ravenous after our friends award show a few nights ago and were around the corner from Hatfield’s. We saddled up to the bar and ordered the cuttlefish, octopus, and the cod. I don’t know why. We were just in that kind of mood.  They had this addictive rosemary popcorn that I [...]

My not-so-new but recently getting out-of-hand obsessionis the flatbreads at Huckleberry.  See them in the picture above? They are a little left of the center – oily bread covered in zucchini slices that’ve been baked into the dough.  I’m swooning left and right for them and have scheduled four lunch meetings for next week at this Santa Monica [...]

I wanted to go to Joseph Leonard almost immediately after they opened. The problem was I’d just moved to Cali.  So after several trips back to the east coast and like five attempts to get to JL, I set up my final evening so that I’d start off having a drink there and hopefully be [...]

I first visited Locanda Verde last summer after they’d just opened.  Andrew Carmellini… Robert Deniro… Karen Demasco… talk about a dream team!  Ever since that lovely day back in 09, I’d been plotting my return.  But somehow, there was just never enough time. So you can imagine my squeals of joy when my uncle and I decided [...]

Since moving to LA, I’ve been to Gjelina about four times. And Taylor has been even more than I have. It’s weird: In NYC, upon arrival, I was determined to try every restaurant – old and new.  But here, it’s just a little different. When you find something you like, you just stick with it. [...]

What the eff. When I read Urban Daddy a few days ago, I couldn’t figure out if I wanted to curl up into a ball or jet to the FiDi at lightning speed. My friend Heather Tierney – who’s got a hand in Apotheké, Burger Shoppe, WorkShoppe and few other projects on the brink – [...]