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…
Out of a 5-star rating, I would give them a 4. The place was clean. The staff was very attentive. I keep talking about Nathon, but he really made our…
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…
The "long walk" from the mall to the restaurant had me parched, LOL! The great thing about getting to the restaurant early was that the bar was open and Nathon…