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Sprinkles Cupcake ATM, Beverly Hills – Los Angeles

Kit Marshal — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:04:16 +0000

image credit: from Facebook

Sprinkles, Beverly Hills

9635 Little Santa Monica Boulevard
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Tel. 1 310.274.8765
Emaileat@sprinkles.com
Website: http://www.sprinkles.com/
http://www.twitter.com/sprinklesbh

ONLY IN BEVERLY HILLS: Sprinkles is soon to announce a 24 hour cupcake ATM that will dispense not only cupcakes for people but also for dogs, various Sprinkles apparel and cake mixes. And, wouldn’t you know it has a Facebook page as well http://www.facebook.com/24hoursprinkles. Isn’t this all too cute!

Petrossian Caviar, Beverly Hills – Los Angeles

Kit Marshal — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:19:10 +0000

321 N. Robertson Blvd. Beverly Hills
Tel.310-271-0576
Chef: Giselle Wellman

Developed by Armen Petrossian and team in the company’s lab, with the powder formed from 100% Transmontanus caviar and intended to be used as one might use spice, shaved truffles, or salt; to be sprinkled on dishes like eggs, smoked salmon, and pasta to imbue them with caviar flavor.

Caviar in paper-form and a powder-form, sold at the restaurant under the names Petrossian Caviar Powder and Petrossian Papierusse and used in the cooking at Petrossian, Beverly Hills as well as available in the shop for home use.

Belwood Bakeries, Brentwood, Beverly Hills, Studio City – Los Angeles

Kit Marshal — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 07:15:30 +0000

Belwood Bakery
11625 Barrington Court
Los Angeles CA 90049
Tel. 310-471-6855
Brentwood

Belwood Bakery Beverly Hills
246 N. Beverly Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Belwood Bakery
12634 Ventura Blvd.
818-755-8853
Studio City
Brentwood was Belwood’s 1st location after the Bel-Air Country Market near Moraga Drive. Founded by a Vietnamese family, the two brothers were taught their bakery skills in Paris.Their croissants are marvelous as is everything else they serve including an excellent cold chocolate drink. Service is speedy and efficient. These bakeries are a must to visit while in Los Angeles.

Bouchon Bakery, Beverly Hills – Los Angeles

Kit Marshal — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:19:11 +0000

Bouchon Bakery
235 N Canon Dr
(at the Montage)
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
310-271-9910
website

Bouchon Bakery is now officially open according to urbandaddy and located on the ground floor outside that big courtyard next to Canon Drive adjacent to Bouchon’s little bar under the restaurant itself. It will feature French baked goods as well as cookies and coffee cake. Drop in and give it a try!

M Café, Macrobiotic Food by Chaya – Los Angeles

Kit Marshal — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:55:49 +0000

M Café, Chaya Restaurant’s entry into the niche macrobiotic food sector has been long in the planning and now has three locations to show for it, the first being the M Café Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood location that opened in 2005, following that the M Café in Culver City, and earlier this year (2010) M Café, Beverly Hills. There will be more to come.

Culver City
9343 Culver Boulevard
Culver City, CA. 90232
Tel. 310.838.4300
Fax. 310.838.4310

Melrose Avenue
7119 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA. 90046
Tel. 323.525.0588
Fax. 323.525.0310

Corporate Office
100 Corporate Pointe, Suite 265
Culver City, CA 90230
Tel. 310.338.1122
Fax. 310.338.1457

Beverly Hills (recently opened)
9433 Brighton Way
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Tel. 310.858.8459
Fax. 310.858.8942

M Café introduces au courant Macrobiotic Cuisine to the West side of Los Angeles. They feature balanced, nutritious, creative cooking, which can be enjoyed at any time by everyone, not just vegetarians or people with dietary restrictions. M Café brings this newly updated cuisine with an inviting European café-style setting, offering breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Under the direction of Chaya’s Corporate Executive Chef, Shigefumi Tachibe along with consulting macrobiotic chef, Lee Gross.

Chaya Brasserie
Chaya Venice
Chaya Brasserie San Francisco
Chaya Downtown
M Café – Melrose Ave, Culver City & Beverly Hills

Chef Shigefumi Tachibe began training in formal French technique at the age of fifteen at the Hotel Ban Show Row in Nagasaki, Japan. He then served as an exchange chef at the restaurant Gannino in Milan, Italy, at the age of 21. Upon returning to Japan, he was named Executive Chef at La Marée de Chaya in Hayama, Japan. His experience with French and Italian cooking coupled with Japanese cuisine became the fusion that is now synonymous with Chaya Restaurants. He first came to Los Angeles in 1981 with Yuta Tsunoda, the founder of Chaya Restaurants, to open La Petite Chaya.

Official: Thomas Keller’s Bouchon to Open in Beverly Hills

Kit Marshal — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:18:41 +0000

It is official! Thomas Keller will open Bouchon restaurant in Beverly Hills sometime in 2009 in the Gardens Building next to the new Montage Beverly Hills on Canon Drive. Adam Tihany will design the space that will occupy more than 11,00 square feet on two floors including a restaurant and bakery. Rory Herman will be the chef he is presently at Per Se in NYC. He will work under Jeffrey Cercielloo, who oversees casual dining in the Keller operation. Keller, the only American chef with two three-star Michelin establishments says, “I want our food to have integrity and a connection with French bistro history. We’re not being interpretive here; we’re not making crème caramel flavored with lavender.”

Not long ago we attended a dinner at the Le Normandie, at the Oriental Hotel, Bangkok where Keller was cooking for a week. I had a chat with him regarding the long advance booking wait for his restaurant The French Laundry. He nonchalantly said, “it’s not so bad now, only about three weeks.”

Cafe Talésai – Beverly Hills, California

Kit Marshal — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:29:56 +0000

9198 Olympic Boulevard
Beverly Hills 90212
310 271 9345
Credit Cards: All Major
Prices: Inexpensive – Moderate

Located in a small shopping strip on Olympic Blvd. just west of Doheny Dr., the diminutive Cafe Talėsai is one of my favorite Thai restaurants on the Westside. The cooking is authentic and consistently good. I have known the owners, the Yenbamroong’s for years, since I first reviewed their wonderful restaurant Talésai on the Sunset Strip near Doheny, many years ago, long before they opened this more informal and casual branch called Café Talésai.

A few of the more interesting dishes follow and the star indicates that the dish is spicy:

Thai Latkes
Deep fried shredded taro. Served with tamarind sauce

Chieng Mai Wrapped Chicken
Spicy minced chicken, chili, lime, and fresh mint.
Served with romaine lettuce.
Talesai corn fritters
with cucumber sauce.
Larb Lanna
Chicken or pork with
roasted dried chili.
Authentic Northern Style.
Isan Classic
Combination of BBQ chicken or
grilled garlic pork, papaya salad
and sticky rice.
Jungle Curry
Up country style red curry with
eggplant, green beans, bamboo shoots,
with or without coconut milk.

Chicken
Pad Thai
Thai noodles pan-fried with
chicken, tofu, peanuts, egg,
been sprouts, and scallions.

Talesai corn fritters
with cucumber sauce.Corn Fritters
Red Devil Noodles
Spicy rice noodles pan-fried
with chicken, chili, and
fresh basil.

Spicy Rice Noodles Pan-fried
with chicken, chili, and
fresh basils.
Papaya Salad
Shredded green papaya, tomato, green beans
& cashew nuts in a chili lime garlic dressing.
Glass Noodles Salad
Warm glass noodles with
snow peas, mushrooms, carrot
cilantro & spicy lime dressing.