Plan Check Kitchen + Bar recently opened its fourth LA location in Santa Monica. In case you are wondering, the restaurant’s unusual name comes from its first location next to the City of Los Angeles Department of Building & Safety where architects and designers submit their plans.
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last few months, you have no doubt heard of Th Taste, the epicurean festival presented by Los Angeles Times and Food & Wine over the Labor Day weekend, September 2-5.
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Sushi Roku opened its first location as a sushi lounge in Hollywood in 1997 and has since expanded to Santa Monica, Pasadena, and beyond California to Scottsdale, Arizona, and Las Vegas. As the Santa Monica restaurant turns 16 in November, we thought it a good time to re-visit. We chatted with Tom Cardenas, IDG, the parent company’s VP of Operations and Chef Hiroshi Shima, Corporate Executive Chef of Sushi Roku and Katana.
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Sonoma Wine Garden, with its large outdoor patio and breathtaking ocean and sunset views, Sonoma Wine Garden, has been a hit with customers since its opening in August 2010, and its large wine selection, and special wine events have kept customers engaged, returning for more.
If you are familiar with newbie Zengo which opened last summer in the newly remodelled SM Place, you know that it offers a Latin-Asian fusion small plates menu that has already earned a reputation as some of the best and freshest fusion cuisine on the Westside.
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