A Beach Day with Not Your Mother’s Mall Food: La Sandia, Santa Monica Place

October 31, 2013
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Kid Hit Menu Items: No matter how much butter I use, or soft-and-gooey-plus-crispy combination I pull off, my kids seem to think a quesadilla always tastes better in a restaurant. La Sandia at the newfangled Santa Monica is no exception. We were invited by the restaurant’s PR team (disclosure alert!) to try the expanded kids’ […]

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A Family Restaurant Hidden in Plain Sight: Sunset Junction Coffee Shop, Silver Lake

September 27, 2013
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Kid Hit Menu Items: Intelligentsia might be able to make you a steamer or a small hot chocolate for the kids, but its neighbor, Sunset Junction Coffee Shop, takes things a step further in this department. The kids’ menu — if you go for such things, since the concept runs counter to some parents’ eating out […]

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Farewell Summer, Hello Fall Food Events: The Taste, KCRW Pie at LACMA, L.A. Loves Alex’s Lemonade

August 29, 2013
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Some folks are gluttons for music festivals, conventions, and big food events. Me? I just tend to get totally overwhelmed. I heard some positive reports about LA Food & Wine extravaganza last week, however, so I’m hoping to get over my crowd-crabbiness at the L.A. Times’ fest The Taste, happening over the course of this weekend […]

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‘Arlo the Elephant’ Kickstarter + GIVEAWAY

August 22, 2013
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A few weeks ago we stopped at our beloved independent neighborhood bookstore, where my six-year-old son and his friend each got a few bucks to pick out a book. While poking around the shelves we came across a couple stories about Arlo the Elephant that they really dug, and I’d never seen before. Think of this character […]

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Ask the Experts: Chef Alan Jackson, Lemonade

August 19, 2013
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Thank chef Alan Jackson’s three daughters, ages 8, 10 and 18, in part for the runaway success of his Lemonade restaurants. What began as a convenient marketplace type eatery on Beverly next to the super deluxe WeHo Bristol Farms is now a veritable local chain. OK, maybe still a chain-ette, but with 12 locations (plus […]

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Taster Tots Travels: New York City Vol. 3, Summer 2013

August 12, 2013
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I’ve talked about New York plenty before, and shared some of our longstanding faves there. Last month’s trip (oy, I’m behind) was more of the same subway riding and great times with friends, followed by a return to L.A. with daily kvetching about how New York is so much better than L.A. Finally, we have […]

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