DINING BEAT : SUPER BOWL FANS PLAY THE CULINARY FIELD.Byline: Larry Lipson Undoubtedly there'll be a few sports bar restaurants doing big business today, and there will be a lot of chips and dips, pates and spreads, nachos and small noshes going around. A few restaurants are promoting their takeout fare for the big day. Cha Cha Cha Encino is offering a variety of Carib-accented, picnic-style meals ranging from $16 to $23. And Typhoon typhoon: see hurricane. , 3221 Donald Douglas Loop S., Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. , is smartly putting on its ``Super Sushi Sunday'' event, an all-you-can-eat sushi and Asian dish happening priced at $32.50 a head and starring guest chef Shige Kudo ku·do n. pl. ku·dos Usage Problem A praising remark; an accolade or compliment: "Children's book author Virginia Hamilton added another kudo to her prize-laden career" of Silver Lake's Shibucho. There's big-screen television here, and doors open half an hour before kickoff. Reservations: (310) 390-8032. Six-course spectacular Resident chef Jennifer Naylor will cook the second annual black truffle truffle (trŭf`əl) [Fr.], subterranean edible fungus that forms a mutually beneficial (symbiotic) relationship with the roots of certain trees and plants. The part of the fungus used as food is the ascoma, the fruiting body of the fungus. dinner at 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 , 23725 W. Malibu Road, Malibu, on Feb. 19. This is a six-course feast with every dish except dessert utilizing the prized Black Diamond truffles from Perigord, France. The truffles will be cooked with a wild mushroom and scallop scallop or pecten, marine bivalve mollusk. Like its close relative the oyster, the scallop has no siphons, the mantle being completely open, but it differs from other mollusks in that both mantle edges have a row of steely blue "eyes" and soup, with a salmon trout salad, with an Umbrian-style house-produced spaghetti dish with garlic and anchovies anchovies a cause of diarrhea, vomiting, salivation, lacrimation, depression, miosis, polypnea, tachycardia, hypothermia in cats. , with filet of john dory John Dory: see rockfish. , and with slow-braised guinea hen. Cost is $85. Seating is limited. Reservations mandatory: (310) 456-0488. Pocketful of `Values' Restaurant critic and broadcaster Elmer Dills has updated his ``Pocket Guide to Dining Values,'' so that now it has almost 300 listings. Covering Los Angeles, Ventura and Orange counties, along with the Inland Empire and Palm Springs areas, Dills concentrates on inexpensive restaurants, many with the majority of their entrees priced under $10. To purchase the 1998 edition of the Dills guide, send a $5 check payable to the Pennysaver, addressed to Elmer Dills, Box L, P.O. Box 8900, Brea, Calif. 92822. Etc. Tuesday's special five-course dinner at Patina, 5955 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, showcases the heralded armagnacs of Laberdolive (1923, 1962, 1970, 1979 vintages) and the cuisine of Gascony, France. Accompanying wines include 1982 Chateau Palmer poured from magnums. And Nicholas Laberdolive will be on hand to answer questions about his famous armagnacs. Cost: $120. Reservations: (213) 467-1108. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: The second annual black truffle dinner takes place Feb. 19 at Granita in Malibu. Reservations are mandatory for the six-course feast utilizing Black Diamond truffles in every dish except dessert. Myung J. Chun/Daily News |
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