DINING BEAT : TRAILING FOX AND HOUNDS.Byline: Larry Lipson Studio City will get an honest-to-goodness British pub-restaurant when the Fox and Hounds opens in mid-September at 11100 Ventura Blvd. Owner-host is Gary Richards, a film assistant director whose latest project is a cable television movie ``Mother Teresa: In God's Name,'' premiering Oct. 5 on the Family Channel. Englishman Richards hired Jamie Kemp, a British pub chef, and Chris Evans, the former manager of the Hilton Hotel pub in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to round out his management team of all Brits. He said the Fox and Hounds will have a nonsmoking non·smok·ing adj. 1. Not engaging in the smoking of tobacco: nonsmoking passengers. 2. Designated or reserved for nonsmokers: the nonsmoking section of a restaurant. full bar featuring 10 British Empire draft beers, some of the brands changing periodically, and a restaurant menu of familiar grub like fish and chips fish and chips pl.n. Fried fillets of fish and French-fried potatoes. Noun 1. fish and chips - fried fish and french-fried potatoes dish - a particular item of prepared food; "she prepared a special dish for dinner" and bangers and mash More of a serving suggestion than a recipe, bangers and mash is a British colloquial name for sausage (bangers) served with mashed potatoes. The sausage may be one of a variety of flavoured sausage; such as pork, pork and apple, tomato, beef, Lincolnshire, or Cumberland. plus roast beef on weekends. Entree prices will run from $5 to $14, he said. High tea will be a daily occurrence, and a beer-garden-style patio is being constructed on the west side of the building, said Richards. Information: (818) 763-7976. Marvel, Leaves blooming Other new restaurants in the offing are Marvel Mania, replacing Victoria Station in Universal City, and Leaves, an Afghani-Iranian-Indian restaurant on the former McGuire's site at 8232 De Soto Ave., Canoga Park, with a projected opening in late September. Also expected to be completed sometime next month, Marvel Mania is the prototype for a projected international chain of theme restaurants utilizing Marvel comic book characters and live entertainment. Ironically, this particular Victoria Station was the flagship of a British railroad-themed prime rib-emphasized eatery chain that flourished in the '70s. La Cachette a hit The buzz on La Cienega Boulevard La Cienega Boulevard is a major north/south arterial road that runs from El Segundo Boulevard in El Segundo, California on the south to its end on the Sunset Strip/Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. , still referred to by many as L.A.'s Restaurant Row, is that Jean-Francois Metegnier, a former L'Orangerie chef, who took over the former Champagne site in West Los Angeles
La Cachette into a bona fide [Latin, In good faith.] Honest; genuine; actual; authentic; acting without the intention of defrauding. A bona fide purchaser is one who purchases property for a valuable consideration that is inducement for entering into a contract and without suspicion of being hit, wants to come back to La Cienega with a second restaurant and is in negotiation to take over a fairly prominent dining facility and turn it into Bistro Provencal, a casual Southern French spot that would feature some of the improved inexpensive wines now emanating from that area. Also that the nearby shuttered La Mer Brasserie bras·se·rie n. A restaurant serving alcoholic beverages, especially beer, as well as food. [French, from brasser, to malt, brew, from Old French bracier, from Vulgar Latin at 826 N. La Cienega Blvd. soon will become a local version of New York's jazzy jazz·y adj. jazz·i·er, jazz·i·est 1. Resembling jazz in form or nature; rhythmical. 2. Slang Showy; flashy: a jazzy car. Shark Bar, an uptown Manhattan soul food restaurant frequented by the sports crowd. |
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