DINING BEAT : CHASEN'S COMETH.Byline: Larry Lipson Grady Sanders was about to open the original Bistro at 246 Canon Drive in Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. when the former proprietor, Kurt Niklas, went to court to prevent him from calling it the Bistro, a name Niklas claims he owns as part of his company that operates the Bistro Garden at Coldwater in Studio City. So Sanders was about to name it Grady's, even had cards printed, when he met up with Scott McKay
Scott McKay (born c. 1961) is a Canadian politician, the current leader of the Green Party of Quebec, and a former Montreal city councillor. , nephew of Chasen's founders Dave and Maude Chasen, who's been looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a location for a revived Chasen's now that the original is shuttered and due to be replaced by a shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into . The result: The former Bistro will probably reopen as Chasen's in March, says Sanders, who intends to put all the familiar Chasen's dishes on its menu and is trying to lure Pepe the bartender back as well. With Spago moving into the ex-Bistro Garden site and Chasen's taking over the Bistro building, perhaps a Westside edition of Bistro Garden should consider the empty Scandia scan·di·a n. See scandium oxide. [From scandium.] building on Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Palisades. (which was supposed to reopen as the Legacy, but hasn't) or the dark ex-Carnegie Deli/Balducci's space in Beverly Hills. Of course, whoever owns the fabled Perino's name could also make a comeback at one of these empty places. The name game Speaking of Balducci's, don't look for that particular name anymore on local restaurant buildings. Seems the restaurant called Balducci's at 15300 Ventura Blvd. in Sherman Oaks has been renamed Raghetti's. And, as noted above, the Balducci's that replaced the Carnegie Deli in Beverly Hills has expired altogether. According to a Balducci's-now-Raghetti's employee who prefers anonymity, the reason for the change was that Balducci's in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , a famous Italian grocery, legally objected to the use of its name. The New York Balducci's won, hence the Raghetti's sign. Napkin notes The ownership change at Le Chardonnay on Melrose Avenue has resulted in restaurateur-owner Maurice Constantin bringing in well-known Jean Pierre Lemanissier, the ex-Ma Maison, Hollywood Diner, Tour d'Argent in Tokyo and Antoine in Orange County chef. ... Seen nuzzling at Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills, Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow. |
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