![]() ![]() hazelnut bread pudding with chocolate sauce. Mom gets her choice of an appetizer like prosciutto and poached pears with blue cheese, an entree-osso buco, perhaps, or sea bass-and a dessert, e.g. Last-Minute Mother’s Day Plans: Posto is offering a three-course brunch for $35. The Mandarette, 9513 Little Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills (310) 385-1188. every night except Sunday, when it closes at 10 p.m. It is open seven days a week for lunch and dinner, serving until 1 a.m. ![]() The new Mandarette is roomier than its West Hollywood cousin. Dinner features the most popular dishes from the West Hollywood restaurant and from sister restaurant Ben Pao in Chicago. Lunch is all dumplings (steamed, poached and pan-fried) and noodles so that the kitchen can crank the food out fast for people in a hurry. The menu at the new place is slightly different. ![]() Tequila Jack’s, 407 Shoreline Village Drive, Long Beach (562) 628-0454.Īdding a Mandarette: The ever-popular Mandarette, that updated Chinese cafe in West Hollywood, opened another location in Beverly Hills recently. For the Yard House, that means more than 250 varieties of beer Tequila Jack’s has-you guessed it-more than 90 types of tequila (and counting). Tequila Jack’s has a thing or two in common with the Yard House, apart from ownership: viz., chef Mike Doctulero, a waterfront patio and a bar serving obsessive varieties of a particular beverage. After the fold of their first idea for the space, Oink’s, Yard House owners Steve Reynolds and Steel Platt decided that a beach-house Mexican cantina would mesh better. New Places (Non-Chinese): Tequila Jack’s has opened next door to the Yard House. Open daily serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. to serve Hong Kong-style dim sum breakfast to anyone who’s ready for dumplings first thing in the morning. Ko also eschews MSG and says that the new location serves lots of seafood dishes, like the San Francisco one, but it emphasizes dim sum. It can’t quite be called a chain, because the only other location just opened in L.A.’s Chinatown. Pei Yin Ko and Kwan Lap Yu own Gourmet Carousel in San Francisco. Pick Up Stix, the Granada Village Center, 18105 Chatsworth St., Granada Hills (818) 366-1688. Pick Up Stix likes to emphasize the light and healthy qualities (and absence of MSG) in its entrees. You can watch your cream cheese wontons and California rolls being made in the exhibition kitchen as you order at the counter, then you eat in or take it out. Pick Up Stix, headquartered in San Clemente, just opened a branch in Granada Hills. It will join its sibling restaurants in serving traditional Chinese cuisine in an American bistro setting. The new location will be at 2041 Rosecrans Ave. Chang’s China Bistro, a chain based in Scottsdale, Ariz., that already has branches in Newport Beach, Irvine and La Jolla, is coming to El Segundo in June. New Places: There must be a serious demand for mid-priced soy-sauce-laden foods around here, because three Chinese restaurant chains have decided to expand in our direction. Why the move from the Beverly Hills Hotel? “It was my chance to put my signature here on this property,” says Nieto. He plans to lighten up the Franco-Russian menu of Diaghilev a bit with more fish, seafood, salads and spa-oriented breakfasts. ![]() Nieto is big on growing his own herbs and making his own infused oils, so he’s installing an herb garden on the hotel roof. New Chef: The Wyndham Bel Age Hotel has a new chef in charge of its restaurants, Diaghilev and La Brasserie: Andreas Nieto, formerly of the Beverly Hills Hotel. ![]()
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