Since we stayed at downtown for our arrival night, I looked up restaurants in the touristy area and tried the popular tapas place called Purple Pig. As their name indicates, there’s pork in all their dishes. Even a bowl of almonds are fried in pork fat. Their menu sounds watering, there’s a intensive menu of […]
Posts Tagged ‘Winebar’
August 13, 2010
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Lazy Ox Canteen (Little Tokyo)
By Freda in 06: Downtown LAI could still remember Baco Night and the $30 Three Course Prix Fixe at the long gone Opus Restaurant. Chef Josef Centeno have since moved on, and his latest establishment is Lazy Ox Canteen at Little Tokyo. It is a wine bar with inventive small plates. Wine of the day are featured on the chalkboard. […]
Tags: small plate, Winebar
January 12, 2010
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Beneluxx (Philadelphia)
By Freda in 11: PhiladelphiaDuring one of my morning stroll around the city, I spotted a speakeasy looking basement joint called Beneluxx Tasting Room. It is actually a wine bar opened by the folks from Eulogy Belgian Tavern. A tempting sounding $34.99 tasting menu was posted in front, I told myself to come back at night. I came back […]
December 1, 2009
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Mercantile (Sunset Blvd)
By Joan in 08: Hollywood, Favorite Food EntriesFor the past year my coworkers and I have been eagerly waiting for this place to open because it’s just right down the block from where we work. For months we speculated what it’ll be, a cafe? an expensive sit-down restaurant? Turns out it’s a wine bar + deli called Mercantile. Everyone was delighted as […]
