I’d say that Redbird is conveniently located downtown, near LA City Hall, except that nowhere downtown is convenient—or safe—anymore. Once you have stepped over the usual number of napping homeless…
If I hadn’t met Charlie for brunch that day at Magnolia House, what would I have been doing instead with my Sunday? Probably what I do every Sunday: preparing for…
Along with your brunch at Magnolia House, you get to choose either a mimosa or a Bloody Mary for just $8. There are other interesting-sounding cocktails on the drinks menu…
Years of snoozing till the last possible minute and then rushing furiously through my morning ablutions to make myself semi-presentable to the outside world have conditioned my body to not…
For this month’s gastronomic adventure, Charlie and I thought we would mix things up a bit and do a daytime thing instead of our usual dinner; specifically, we decided on…
Happiness only real when shared. In the movie, Into the Wild, the main character graduates from a prestigious university only to abandon a seemingly promising future in law, leaving behind…
When you’re at a Latin-American restaurant and piña coladas are on the menu, you’re almost obligated to order it. So, at the risk of being branded a cocktail conservative who’s…
DAMA’s food menu lists an intriguing variety of “Small Plates” and a much shorter catalog (i.e., five dishes only) of “Large Plates.” It almost seems like customers are being subtly…
What a bizarre, chaotic, surreal, random, incomprehensible place Los Angeles is. In any other city, a lovely restaurant like DAMA would be situated alongside others of its kind, and one…
If I were ever placed on death row and it was my execution day and I was asked what I wanted my last meal to be and I could have…