GOOD TASTES.HALLOWEEN BAKERY GOODIES: If you're in the market for some interesting treats for Halloween and don't have time to make them, head over to L.A. Bread Bakery and Cafe. You can pick up funny and fun pretzel fingers (with black tinted almonds for the nails; $1 each), an array of colorfully decorated, attractive sugar cookies ($2 each and they taste good) and large decorated ginger cookies ($1.50 each). Also available is a round loaf Round Loaf is a Neolithic or Bronze Age tumulus on the West Pennine Moors on Anglezarke Moor, within the locale of Chorley in Lancashire, England. It is the largest of its type in the North West of England, dating back 3500 years. of subtle-tasting pumpkin yeast bread topped with pepitas ($5). The bakery has been open four years - and also offers an array of special holiday tarts, pies and cakes including pumpkin pie pumpkin pie traditional dish, especially at Thanksgiving. [Am. Culture: Flexner, 68] See : America (9-inch at $10); chocolate pecan pie ($12), stollen stol·len n. pl. stollen or stol·lens A rich yeast bread containing raisins, citron, and chopped nutmeats. [German, prop, support, stollen; see stull.] ($14) and a bouche de noel ($40). Breads are baked fresh daily and types include kalamata olive country, grain of the earth, Russian black, Asiago cheese and much more. Located at 3319 Los Feliz Blvd., Los Angeles, (323) 662-8600, the bakery/cafe is open 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. - Natalie Haughton YEAR'S BEST COFFEE: For the second year and for the next couple of months (until supplies run out), Starbucks is offering its cream of the crop Special Reserve Coffees including a Special Reserve Blend 2002 (coffees from Guatemala Antigua and Sumatra's Lintong region) and Special Reserve Kenya Peaberry Not to be confused with Peaberry Coffee. Peaberry, also known as caracoli, is a type of coffee bean. Normally the fruit of the coffee plant develops as two halves of a bean within a single cherry, but sometimes only one of the two seeds gets fertilised so there is nothing (a single estate coffee grown in the mountains of the Nyeri district in Kenya). The Reserve Blend was smooth and complex - and without the usual burnt flavor I associate with Starbucks coffee. It's available for $15.95 a pound at all Starbucks stores. The Peaberry is sold only online for $16.95 a pound at www.starbucks.com. - N.H. PEEPS GO BATTY: The newest member of the Marshmallow marshmallow /marsh·mal·low/ (mahrsh´mel?o) (-mal?o) a perennial Eurasian herb, Althaea officinalis, Peeps Halloween family (of ghosts, pumpkins, cats, etc.) is Peeps Cocoa Bats with a dusting of cocoa powder. Each 3 3/8-ounce package contains six Peeps and has a suggested retail price of $1.29. Also new this year are Peeps snack-pack Spooky Cats (four to a 1 1/8-ounce package) and mini Pumpkins (eight to a 1 1/8-ounce package) priced between 50 and 69 cents each. The small size makes them good for trick or treaters or ideal for decorating cakes and other Halloween sweets. For Peeps craft and recipe ideas, visit www.marshmallowpeeps.com. - N.H. DINING OUT The Patina Group (a subsidiary of Restaurant Associates Corp.), currently operating the restaurants, food and catering services at the Los Angeles Music Center The Music Center (officially named the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County) is one of the three largest performing arts centers in the nation. Located in downtown Los Angeles, the Music Center is home to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theater, Mark Taper , will also be responsible for all the restaurant/dining services at the new Walt Disney Concert Hall This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. when it opens next year, it was announced Tuesday. Joachim Splichal, chef and founder of the Patina Group, will personally assist with the creation of the restaurants and dining facilities at the new venue, including a first-class restaurant with a seating capacity of 150 and a takeout and eat-in cafe with an anticipated 200 seats. In addition, Splichal will oversee updating and renovation of the Music Center's existing dining venues. The Otto's restaurant site at the Music Center will be remodeled into a new 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 eatery with indoor and outdoor seating options. The fifth-floor spaces (Salvatori Room and Impresario Bar and Restaurant) at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is one of the halls in the Los Angeles Music Center (which is one of the three largest performing arts centers in the United States). The Music Center's other halls include the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, and Walt Disney Concert Hall. will be opened up to accommodate increased dining seating as well as more guests for receptions and parties. New window treatments, carpets, retractable re·tract v. re·tract·ed, re·tract·ing, re·tracts v.tr. 1. To take back; disavow: refused to retract the statement. 2. walls and audio-visual equipment also will be added. - N.H. CAPTION(S): 5 photos Photo: (1) no caption (Halloween cookies) (2) no caption (Starbucks Special Reserves Coffees) (3 -- 5) no caption (Marshmallow Peeps Halloween) |
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