Restaurant Review World

Ah, Mario Batali, you know that I love you, right? But, I just don’t understand your “less expensive” Enoteca San Marco in the Venetian. If this was meant to whet my appetite for your fancier restaurant there, B&B, it sorely failed. As a matter of fact, I am no longer dreaming of [...]

By now, you all know that I wanted to go to a restaurant that got a Michelin Star for my anniversary, and I am happy to say that I got what I wanted. Last week, my husband and I celebrated our first year married at Valentino in Santa Monica. Let me tell you, [...]

Those of you who read my previous post on Lares already know I was having some camera trouble. It turns out that I wasn’t missing my memory card. After five years, my camera officially passed away that night at Lares. While that hasn’t stopped me from going out to eat, but it unfortunately [...]

New Jersey. Gangsters. Red-checked table cloths. Italian-American grandmas slaving over stove tops all day Sunday. When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie….
Those are the images that will float through your head throughout your dinner at Peppone.
As one of the most enduring Italian restaurants in Los Angeles, and [...]

It was hot all last week in Los Angeles, and on Friday my husband and I were full of trepidation because we were about to spend a short weekend in Phoenix to visit some family, and we knew it could only get hotter. To console ourselves, we decided to treat ourselves to a restaurant [...]