THE STUFF OF AN LA FOODIE'S DREAMS
By Ellen Melinkoff
For dineLA.com
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LA’s time to take its position as a serious food city has arrived. And dineLA wants to make sure the world knows.
With an Advisory Committee that includes some of LA’s culinary luminaries helping to lead the way (Neal Fraser of Grace and BLD, Ben Ford of Ford’s Filling Station, Evan Kleiman of Angeli Caffe, Joachim Splichal of the Patina Group, Suzanne Tracht of Jar, Tracht’s and Suzpree, Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken of Ciudad and Border Grill, Carl Schuster representing Wolfgang Puck, to name a few) dineLA is on track to be the resource for the Los Angeles dining community and visitors who want to sample the city’s culinary offerings.
During dineLA’s first Restaurant Week (actually two weeks: Jan. 27 - Feb. 1 and Feb. 3-8) slated to happen annually, chefs at 143 restaurants chose the prix-fixe that suited them: $15 lunch and $25 dinner or $22 lunch and $34 dinner. Then they set about creating special dishes that guests are still raving about. Participating restaurateurs have reported meeting first-time locals who drove from all corners of LA as well as dining-savvy out-of-towners, all keen to try new places.
The event was such a hit with restaurateurs, as well as diners, that many requests have come calling in for the next dineLA Restaurant Week. Not date has been set, but check back for information. And many of those 143 restaurants have already decided to continue their tempting prix-fixe menus: Vin Bar at Valentino, Table 8, All’ Angelo, BEACON, La Traviata, Abode and Ritual Supper Club.
The goal at dineLA.com is for visitors and Angelenos alike to see that LA is a food-lover’s paradise—one of the best in the world—a place where inspired chefs create some of the best food in the nation, ranging from uber-fresh fish tacos at a local stand to Wagyu beef from Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, at a celeb hotspot. The easy-to-use dineLA.com Web site offers timely features, insider chef profiles, detailed info on more than 2,000 LA-area restaurants, plus must-do food and wine events around town.
Exclusive in-kitchen video of some of dineLA Restaurant Week’s participating chefs:
Ben Ford, Ford's Filling Station
Jared Simons, Violet
Katsuya Uechi, Katsuya Hollywood
Neal Fraser, Grace
Susan Feniger, Cuidad
