For the Brunch Bunch, A New Venue to Dine, Drink and Relax on Sundays
Just in time for Easter, you can now add Scarpetta to the list of great places to have Sunday brunch. Chef Scott Conant’s Beverly Hills outpost in the Montage Hotel opened last fall, but brunch service is brand new– and a don’t miss. It’s a come-hungry and then pace-yourself-affair, because you will probably be initially overwhelmed by the cornucopia of culinary delights to tempt your taste buds set up in the...
Scotch Lovers, Here’s One for You–The Cask of Dreams!
The Glenfiddich Cask of Dreams What would inspire you to dream big? For the people behind Glenfiddich, one of the top single malt Scotch whiskies on the market, it was coming up with a concept called the “cask of dreams”– wooden barrels they would take around the United States and have people literally write their dreams on them. Ambassadors for the brand, which was founded in 1887 and is still a family owned distillery in, um,...
A Funny Thing, Or a Number of Them, Happened at the Comedy Awards
File this under the category of “Why didn’t we think of this before?” Twenty years in, Comedy Central inaugurated its first awards telecast Sunday night with its Comedy Awards, even as its corporate cousins MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon,TV Land and Spike have had successful kudocasts for years. Using that corporate synergy, the show was simulcast across a swath of those networks. Was it worth the wait? The show definitely...
Blowing a Hole in the Southwest Airlines Ethos of Jet Travel
Let me count the ways in which I hate Southwest Airlines, especially in light of the fact that they don’t maintain their old, beat to hell, over-used jets very well, apparently outsourcing that to a company in Brazil. The passengers and crew on board the flight from Phoenix to Sacramento that blew a hole in the roof were very lucky to have survived the ordeal as well as they did. Credit the pilot –a junior Sully...
What’s Cooking At Blue Stove? A Lot of Little Plates That Add Up to a Great Recipe
Department store restaurants in Los Angeles, with the exception of Barney Greengrass, are generally not known for their culinary prowess, much less their desirability of a place to hang out. That all changes with Blue Stove, on the third/top floor of the new Nordstrom at Santa Monica Place, just steps from the Dining Deck and a great alternative to the large theme-y (but good) restaurants there. Blue Stove is dark and clubby, with...
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