Category Archives: Restaurants & Food

Restaurants & Food

RIP: El Torito Grill Beverly Hills

Our Beverly Hills Truffle Hunters are reporting the doors have shut and the phones are unanswered at this resto where many of us have had a love hate relationship all our lives. Love because we looooooove the tortillas and honey more »

Restaurants & Food

Polo Lounge Going Under the Knife

After the underwhelming number pulled on the Hotel Bel Air last year, and the removal of the BH Hotel tennis courts the year before that, we aren’t terribly optimistic about ideas coming from the Dorchester camp. The New York Times more »

Events & Parties, Featured, Restaurants & Food

Mastro’s New 3rd Floor aka Mastro’s Penthouse

What has 1500 degree ovens, cougars, dried ice seafood towers and a newly opened penthouse? Mastro’s new 3rd floor is all the rage. Whilst at Vignette last night, we conferred with some friends who were there for dinner and got more »

Events & Parties, Featured, Restaurants & Food

Spago re-opened in Beverly Hills

Just like the prodigal son, it returns. After what felt like one minute of  driving by and seeing construction trucks and workers …. Spago 3.0 arrivé! (2.0 would be the move from Sunset to Canon). Bouchon will have to say more »

Events & Parties, Featured, Restaurants & Food

New Nobu Malibu C’est Incroyable

Nobu in Malibu was always a scene but since they relocated to a gigantic beach front dojo, it’s next level. This is the place where you will never get a table but you can go to the bar and wait, more »

Restaurants & Food

RIP: Dar Maghreb

There aren’t many Angelenos who haven’t spent a birthday or two at Dar Maghreb growing up in L.A. If Ed Debevic’s or Benihana were getting old, this was the solution. Now shuttered, this super fave L.A. landmark will always hearken rings of bells and more »

LA Natives, Restaurants & Food

Jesse Gomez — Owner of Mercado in Santa Monica, Princeton Grad

Our L.A. native radar recently turned to this Highland Park native who graduated Princeton and grew up in a thick restaurant family — who today has opened Yxta downtown and Mercado in Santa Monica. Meet Jesse Gomez, 3rd generation angeleno, and more »

Restaurants & Food

FYI: The Little Door on 3rd Just Got a Drink Menu

We’re not the kind to freak over happy hour, except when they’re chic. Such as The Little Door’s new drink menu which was recently invented as of July 14th. Now you can chill in the gazeboed patio not just to more »

Restaurants & Food

Spago Closes; But Only for 3 Months

Spago closed last night with a bang, having offered all of the special ‘Spago classics’ (wiener schnitzel, etc.) for the last few weeks up until last night. On the heels of its 30th anniversary, Spago will close July 9th for a complete more »

New in L.A., Restaurants & Food, Truffle Inbox

New Resto: Duplex Restaurant opens Today on 3rd Street in old Barefoot Space

DUPLEX—LOS ANGELES’S NEWEST KITCHEN, BAR, AND EVENTS DESTINATION—OPENS ITS DOORS TODAY Located along bustling West 3rd Street, Duplex takes inspiration from its residential roots both in name and design, offering a neighborhood-centric eatery that feels like home (LOS ANGELES, CA; July more »

Food, Los Angeles Social Diary, Restaurants & Food

Hollywood Steak Wars: Boa, STK, Cut, Morton’s, Etc.

The knives are out as L.A.’s hottest steakhouses compete for the appetites of the industry’s biggest dealmakers. A recent The Hollywood article caught our eye by Friend of the Truffle Degen Penner who did a little MUCH NEEDED break down on more »

Restaurants & Food

New Hotel Bel Air Tea Service Starts Up Again February 1st

It’s been awhile, n’est pas? Well the Hotel Bel Air can finally be considered back up and running now that they have officially begun their traditional tea service since their re-opening. Below is the preliminary menu; which is still be more »

Restaurants & Food

L.A. Restaurant Sightings — January 2012 — From newcomers like Craig’s to oldies like Madeo’s from pizza joints to French cuisine, we got it covered

 

Restaurants & Food

Petrossian Caviar Brunch

Restaurants & Food, Spotted

Spotted: Restaurant Sightings vol 6: Charlize, Hedi, Rumer, Il Covo, Polo Lounge, E. Baldi, etc. [SLIDESHOW]

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