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Umami coming to Downtown?
For those of you who haven’t had Umami, it’s absolutely one of our favorite burgers at the moment. Their hatch burger is pure burger bliss. Well, owner Adam Fleischman is expanding his burger empire even more. With rumors that he’s opening a location downtown, it’ll bring a little competition to the otherwise sparse burger choices [...]
Continue reading...Bravo looking for Chefs
16. June 2010
Bravo is now casting chefs for a new cooking competition pilot. Do you have the skills to sear the competition? Bravo and Stone & Company Entertainment, the Producers of “Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style,” and “The Mole” are currently casting outgoing and competitive chefs for a new pilot. This new cooking competition will pit established [...]
Continue reading...Tasting LA – Taste of the Nation
9. June 2010
40 restaurants, countless chefs, (nearly) unlimited food, beer, wine, cooking demonstrations, silent auction, what more can you pack into a 3 hour period? That’s exactly what happened this past weekend in Culver City at Taste of the Nation. The premier food event that benefits Share our Strengths campaign to make sure no kid grows up [...]
Continue reading...The Alice Project + 15% off at Wurstküche
7. June 2010
Looking for a night out on the town? Maybe catch dinner and a play? Here’s a great chance to catch the wild and surreal Alice Project at the Vesper Theater Company, while enjoying 15% off at Wurstküche. Wonderland comes to life inside a 1940’s warehouse located in the Arts District of Downtown, near the 1st [...]
Continue reading...The Shrimp Guys roll into town
2. June 2010
People familiar with the shrimp trucks of Oahu have something to rejoice about; those who are not have something new and delicious to experience. Rich Narne and Rico Libang have brought the famous shrimp trucks to the streets of LA via The Shrimp Guys. Rich and Rico aren’t from Hawaii, they aren’t professionally trained chefs, [...]
Continue reading...Rush Hour at BottleRock
1. June 2010
Rush hour may cause road rage for some, or cause others to grind their teeth in frustration, but for me, I think of cheap wine and small bites. So if you’re stuck Downtown or in Culver City during rush hour (4:30-7pm, Mon-Sat), take a break from the daily grind of the LA freeways and stop [...]
Continue reading...A Blu burger for National Burger Day
28. May 2010
Happy National Hamburger Day. Today’s burger is from Blu LA Cafe, winner of Downtown News’ best burger in 2009. This was one meat on a bun we hadn’t sunken our teeth into yet. So this past weekend, when Amgen had tied up the streets of downtown and there was no getting in or out, we [...]
Continue reading...El Cholo almost ready for South Park
25. May 2010
We first wrote that Liberty Grill was closed for an extreme makeover back in November of last year. We had hoped that something good was gonna go into this amazing space, then sure enough Blog downtown announced that El Cholo was moving into the spot. Earlier this month, Blog Downtown announced they were opening in [...]
Continue reading...First impressions at First & Hope
24. May 2010
Upon walking up to First & Hope you can’t help but notice you’re standing in a strip mall that caters mostly to daytime office workers. Even with Disney Hall and Music Center Plaza within eye-shot, there is nay a soul around, but walk a few feet and enter the glass doors of First & Hope’s [...]
Continue reading...Finding Yxta Cocina Mexicana
18. May 2010
Say it with me, eeks’-tah. Yxta Cocina Mexicana (sister restaurant to Highland Park’s El Arco Iris) is located on the outskirts of downtown, a stones throw from the surging Historic Core, the shiny new South Park. and the office workers of bunker hill. But somehow people are still filling into this Mexican restaurant located in [...]
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16. June 2010
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