Food
Food notes from around town
By Tom Teicholz at 11 June, 2008, 11:44 am
A lot of LA restaurant news that you need to know: Just ate at “The Hall” at the PaliHouse Hotel on Holloway just east of La Cienega (where the Nike Store once stood). Very cool. Reasonably priced — bistro fare plus… So they have mussels, steak frites, a delicious roast chicken, but the setting is […]
Read More >>Florent restaurant closing in NYC June 29
By Tom Teicholz at 23 May, 2008, 11:08 am
Another one bites the dust. Florent, a French bistro in a diner in what was once the meat-packing district is closing its doors June 29. There was an oral history of sorts in the NYTimes this Wed to bid Florent “Au Revoir”. Florent was open 24/7 which was a plus in the clubbing days but […]
Read More >>Some final notes on Jazzfest weekend
By Tom Teicholz at 5 May, 2008, 9:45 pm
Saturday night found all of us wandering around Frenchmen Street, visiting the clubs there, from the Dragon’s Den where a combo of guy on mac, guy on drums and guy on turntable jammed together.Over at the Blue Nile there was a great band called Toubab Krewe — a bunch of white guys playing exotic African […]
Read More >>Some more food notes
By Tom Teicholz at 3 May, 2008, 7:02 am
A couple of quick food notes: John Besh (August) new restaurant Luke (with an umlaut over the u) is an Alsatian French restaurant where I had the best raw oysters thus far in New Orleans — with Ueglesich’s no longer in business — Lukes makes an impressive showing. The food was really good — there […]
Read More >>New Orleans: coming back — one meal, concert, taxi ride at a time
By Tom Teicholz at 1 May, 2008, 5:04 pm
The most caloric meal that I ever had — and that I continue to have — is at the famous Camellia Grill. Katrina closed the Camellia Grill for 18 months — but The Camellia Grill is back — as good as ever. Now you might wonder what is so special about the Camellia Grill, and […]
Read More >>MICHAEL POLLAN, ALOUD at the LA Central Public Library
By Tom Teicholz at 11 February, 2008, 12:37 am
As I was checking in to the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley with my family this weekend, I saw a familiar face sitting in the lobby — Michael Pollan, the now well known author of such books as “The Omnivore’s Dilemma.” I haven’t seen Michael in several years (I still think of him as “Mike […]
Read More >>Oichi!
By Tom Teicholz at 22 January, 2008, 10:39 am
Oichi mean delicious in Japanese and that’s my review of Robata Bar, 1401 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica, 310- 458-4771) the new Japanese tapas bar next to Sushi Roku in Santa Monica (the entrance is actually on Santa Monica Blvd). The decor is Dodd Mitchell cool, with a dark wood bar and the feel of a […]
Read More >>