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Cheesey goodness at Surfas

As if Surfas in Culver City didn’t have enough going for it. A cafe, a wonderful selection of frozen prepared foods, sauces, cured meats, butters, oils, vinegar, baking supplies & cooking utensils, pots & pans, knives and all sorts of other cooking ecstasy. They’ve now added a cheese bar. Open now, but the official grand [...]

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Suckling up to Ben Ford at Ford’s Filling Station

Almost all of you know the timeless story of the Three Little Pigs and their houses of straw, sticks and bricks. Well imagine that story, but Chef Ben Ford of Ford’s Filling Station is the big bad wolf, we blew the house down, and we ate them all in their house of bricks. Eyes, tongues, [...]

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Surfas - Culver City

Let’s say you’re having a few people over for a nice cocktail party and you want to do something more than buy some stuffed mushrooms and pizza poppers from Trader Joes. Go where the chefs go, Surfas Restaurant Supply. Heck, even the very prego pop star Gwen Stafani was shopping here over the weekend. Hand made [...]

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Father’s Office ver 2.0 - Culver City

Even though I’m the umpteenth blogger to write about the new Father’s Office I thought I would throw my review into the mix anyway. It’s a Friday night and I decide I’ll get there early to get a table. To my surprise there is already a line at 5:30. A decent selection of craft beers at [...]

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Let’s Be Frank - Culver City

“As when a man besides a great fire has filled a sausage with fat and blood and turns it this way and that and is very eager to get it quickly roasted” - Homer’s Odyssey The history of the sausage dates back to 9th century BC. It’s a bit of a mystery when they first made [...]

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Tacomiendo - Culver City

Photo courtesy of the iPhone It’s been a while since we’ve had Taco Tuesday here at Dig Lounge. I thought I could try a different taco place every week and post a review. It worked for a couple of weeks, but alas, I find myself returning to the same old favorites. Unless I wanted to change [...]

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Get schooled on wine - Culver/Downtown

Taste at HD Buttercup Ian Blackburn is the resident wino on Indie 103.1. He’s on the morning show every Wed dishing out knowledge on wine and fermented grapes, the process of turning grapes to wine. See you’re learning already. He’s also got his own website called LearnAboutWine.com where he recommends wines, talks about wine parings and [...]

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Just Opened: Fraiche (Culver City)

This from Zagat.com: “The upscaling of Downtown Culver City picks up momentum with the April 26th opening of Fraiche (9411 Culver Blvd.; 310-839-6800), perhaps the most elegant of the area’s culinary revivalists – a glass-fronted rustic Mediterranean with Jason and Miho Travi in the kitchen, and Thierry Perez running the front of the house. In addition [...]

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