A LA CARTE : PICNIC BOXES AND BASKETS.Byline: Larry Lipson Now that the Hollywood Bowl season has begun, thoughts turn to picnic baskets and boxes for outdoor summer excursions. Many restaurants provide boxed meals expressly for this purpose. Here are a few worth consideration: California Canteen Address: 3311 Cahuenga Blvd. W., near Universal City. Phone: (213) 876-1702. Cuisine: California/Basque. Price range: Dinners for two are $30 and $35. A la carte options run from a $3.25 salad to a whole rosemary-roasted chicken or paella for $13. Description: Boxes of five items (three starters, main course, dessert) named for composers including Debussy, Verdi and Albaniz contain plates, utensils, glasses, napkins, bread, olive oil and condiments. Cha Cha Cha/Calypso Address: Cha Cha Cha: 17499 Ventura Blvd., Encino. Calypso: 2255 Sawtelle Blvd., West Los Angeles
Phone: Cha Cha Cha: (818) 789-3600. Calypso: (310) 477-4255. Cuisine: Carib-Latino. Price range: $16 to $23 per basket. Description: Seven boxed meal options named after Caribbean islands offer a variety of combinations from a salad with fruit, rolls and dessert to a salmon dish with a pasta plus a salad, rolls and dessert. Daily Grill Address: 12050 Ventura Blvd., Studio City. Also in Encino, Brentwood, Los Angeles, Newport Beach and Palm Springs. Phone: (818) 769-6336. Cuisine: American. Price range: From $15 to $25. Description: Eight options range from one with a choice of an entree salad, perhaps with ahi tuna, bread and dessert to several three-course meals and one four-course offering. Engine Co. No. 28 Address: 644 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles. Phone: (213) 624-6996. Cuisine: American. Price range: From $16.50 to $19.25. Description: Five main-course items from a grilled vegetable salad to a grilled ahi tuna sandwich may be joined by one of five appetizer options and six desserts. Wine with plastic glasses and a corkscrew corkscrew a deformity in which the affected part is spiraled like a corkscrew. corkscrew claw a probably heritable defect of the lateral claw, usually of the front feet, of cattle causing serious lameness. may be added. Granita gra·ni·ta n. A granular dessert ice with a sugar-syrup base, usually flavored with fruit purée, coffee, or wine. [Italian, from feminine past participle of granire, to make grainy, granulate Address: 23725 W. Malibu Road, Malibu. Phone: (310) 456-0488. Cuisine: Seafood. Price range: $95 for two. Description: Spiffy spiffy - /spi'fee/ 1. Said of programs having a pretty, clever, or exceptionally well-designed interface. "Have you seen the spiffy X version of empire yet?" This was common mainstream slang during the 1940s. 2. five-course meal is packed in a smart handwoven hand·wo·ven adj. 1. Woven on a hand-operated loom: handwoven rugs. 2. Woven by hand: handwoven baskets. Adj. 1. basket. It begins with Granita's house-smoked salmon, then a Chino Farms chopped vegetable salad. Maine lobster with accompaniments, a bottle of red or white wine and a dessert selection of apple and chocolate tarts plus cookies and biscotti Biscotti (plural of Italian biscotto, roughly meaning "twice baked") are crisp Italian cookies often containing nuts or flavored with anise. Traditionally, biscotti are made by baking cookie dough in two long slabs, cutting these into slices, and reheating them to dry follow. Ware and condiments are included. The Grill Address: 9560 Dayton Way, Beverly Hills. Phone: (310) 276-0615. Cuisine: American. Price range: From $24 to $45 per person. Description: The least expensive meals have three items plus fresh fruit. The most expensive are five-course dinners with steaks and such. Patina Address: 5955 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles. Phone: (213) 467-1108. Cuisine: French-Californian. Price range: From $28 to $46. Description: Named after great composers, these are three- or four-course meals. Pinot at the Chronicle Address: 897 Granite Drive, Pasadena. Phone: (818) 792-1179. Cuisine: Bistro French. Price range: From $20 to $24. Description: Named after area locations, the boxed meals offer three interesting, substantial courses, such as a grilled portobello mushroom salad with French feta fet·a n. A white semisoft cheese usually made of goat's or ewe's milk and often preserved in brine. [Modern Greek (turi) pheta, (cheese) slice, from Italian fetta, slice cheese as a starter and an apricot tart with hazelnut sauce as an ending. Pinot Bistro Address: 12969 Ventura Blvd., Studio City. Phone: (818) 990-0500. Cuisine: Bistro French. Price range: From $22 to $25.50. Description: Three boxed meals named after jazz greats are three courses and consist of such intrigues as a salmon, crabmeat crab·meat n. The edible flesh of a crab. Noun 1. crabmeat - the edible flesh of any of various crabs crab crab cocktail - a cocktail of cold cooked crabmeat and a sauce and roasted corn roll; a roulade rou·lade n. 1. Music An embellishment consisting of a rapid run of several notes sung to one syllable. 2. A slice of meat rolled around a filling and cooked. of roasted chicken; and a multigrain bread pudding with plums, cherries and mascarpone mas·car·po·ne n. A fresh soft Italian cheese with a high butterfat content, made from cow's milk enriched with cream. [Italian, augmentative of dialectal mascarpa, whey cheese. sauce. Pinot Hollywood Address: 1448 N. Gower St., Hollywood. Phone: (213) 461-8800. Cuisine: French bistro. Price range: From $22 to $27. Description: A trio of boxes named baritone, soprano and tenor are each three courses. Rosti Address: 16403 Ventura Blvd., Encino. Also in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Brentwood and Thousand Oaks. Phone: (818) 995-7179. Cuisine: Tuscan Italian. Price range: From $9.75 to $14.25. Description: Five picnic options with regional Italian names range from the signature pollo al mattone (stone-pressed, griddled chicken) with steamed vegetables, rollati and apple tart to a meal with chicken and artichoke hearts plus bruschetta bruschetta Noun an Italian open sandwich of toasted bread topped with olive oil and tomatoes, olives, etc [Italian] , grilled vegetables and tiramisu tir·a·mi·su n. A dessert of cake infused with a liquid such as coffee or rum, layered with a rich cheese filling, and topped with grated chocolate. . |
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