DINING BEAT : AWARDS FEAST ALL ARRANGED.Byline: Larry Lipson The menu for the California Restaurant Writers Association's annual awards banquet March 9 at the Wyndham Bel Age Hotel, 1020 N. San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood, has been set. The 6 p.m. event in the hotel's Grand Salon will begin with wine and appetizers, including baby red potatoes with sour cream and caviar, filo FILO - stack dough purses stuffed with goat cheese and sun-dried tomatoes, and beef carpaccio car·pac·cio n. Very thinly sliced raw meat or fish, especially beef or tuna, garnished with a sauce. [Italian, after Vittore Carpaccio, who favored red pigments. and buffalo mozzarella moz·za·rel·la n. A mild white Italian cheese that has a rubbery texture and is often eaten melted, as on pizza. [Italian, diminutive of mozza, a cut, mozzarella, from mozzare, on garlic toast with tomato and basil. The sit-down dinner includes curried butternut butternut: see walnut. butternut Deciduous nut-producing tree (Juglans cinerea) of the walnut family, native to eastern North America. A mature tree has gray, deeply furrowed bark. squash soup, a choice of peppered filet of beef with boursin cheese and a port wine sauce or breast of chicken Kiev, both with vegetable accompaniments. A special peach dessert ends the meal. The public is invited to rub shoulders with some of the top restaurant industry names who hope to be winners of special or regular star awards. Seating is limited. Tickets are $125 and include wines. Information: (213) 851-1023. Sandcastle sand·cas·tle n. 1. A castlelike structure built of wet sand, as by children at a beach. 2. Something that lacks substance or significance. changing Restaurateur res·tau·ra·teur also res·tau·ran·teur n. The manager or owner of a restaurant. [French, from restaurer, to restore; see restaurant. Bob Morris of Gladstone's Universal in Universal City, Noonan's in West Los Angeles
Morris plans an all-American family restaurant with a historic Malibu theme featuring his signature large portions, live lobsters, fresh clams, a sushi bar, an oyster bar, and a ``green market'' bar. Napkin notes Mary Atkinson, former owner of Orleans in West Los Angeles that closed last year, has left Royce's Cafe Orleans, 10916 W. Pico Blvd., West Los Angeles. Information: (310) 441-7427. ... Former chef de cuisine at Venice's 72 Market Street, Robert Lia, has taken over the onetime Fine Affair facility at 662 Sepulveda Blvd., Bel-Air, and hopes to open it within two or three weeks. Information (310) 440-5544. ... What's in a name? How about SelFish Sushi, a new, little sushi bar and cafe at 10166 Mason Ave., Chatsworth, (818) 709-5693? Reader Walter Miyamasu of Northridge recommends it. He writes: ``The prices are remarkably reasonable.'' |
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