RINGING IN THE NEW YEAR.Byline: - Larry Lipson New Year's Eve celebrants this year who want to eat well and welcome in 2007 with champagne (and possibly entertainment) at a local upscale restaurant better be prepared to spend $90 or more per person on the average. You can save a bit, for example, by partaking of the seafood and prime rib buffet deal ($69.98) plus live music and dancing in the Sierra Cafe at the Universal City Hilton, rather than by attending a gala event in the hotel's Sierra Ballroom. Here, you pay $125 per person, but you get a four-course filet mignon fi·let mi·gnon n. pl. fi·lets mi·gnons A small, round, very choice cut of beef from the loin. [French : filet, fillet + mignon, dainty.] Noun 1. and lobster tail dinner with entertainment by the Fabulous Coasters. Cafe Sierra reservations: (818) 509-2030. Sierra Ballroom reservations: (818) 509-2020. A late-riser's three-course brunch on New Year's Day New Year's Day, among ancient peoples the first day of the year frequently corresponded to the vernal or autumnal equinox, or to the summer or winter solstice. In the Middle Ages it was celebrated among Christians usually on Mar. 25. (2 to 9 p.m.) is being offered by Dominick's, 9715 Beverly Blvd., for $15 per person with Bloody Marys at $3 each. Reservations: (310) 652-2335. ... Other New Year's Eve options worth consideration: a lavish, five-course feast ($150) at Grace, 7360 Beverly Blvd., (323) 934-4400; and a Cuban-style fiesta and party at Whist, 1819 Ocean Ave., 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. , featuring dancers, DJs, unlimited mojitos and other drinks, the works for $325. Information and reservations: (310) 451-8711. NEW IN TOWN: Restaurateur-chef Andre Guerrero, owner of Max and Senor Fred, two highly regarded, full-service restaurants in Sherman Oaks, has opened a casual eatery he describes as ``slow fast food.'' Named The Oinkster and located at 2005 Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock, it specializes in its own premises-cured pastrami, available in two sandwiches ($7.50 and $8.50), the latter with gruyere cheese and caramelized onions, and served with red cabbage slaw slaw n. Chiefly Southern U.S. Coleslaw. Noun 1. slaw - basically shredded cabbage coleslaw salad - food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of . Guerrero also makes double-cooked Belgian-style fries ($2 and $3) from Kennebec potatoes, and produces his own sauces (ketchup, chipotle chi·pot·le n. A ripe jalapeño pepper that has been dried and smoked for use in cooking. [American Spanish, from Nahuatl xipotli.] Noun 1. ketchup, garlic aioli ai·o·li n. A rich sauce of crushed garlic, egg yolks, lemon juice, and olive oil. [Provençal : ai, garlic (from Latin allium) + oli, oil (from Latin oleum , chipotle aioli and ranch dressing) priced at 50 cents each. Oinkster roasts pork (brined with soy and honey), which he puts into a barbecued pulled pork sandwich ($6.50), and prepares rotisserie chickens, available whole ($8.75) and in several separate plates ($4.75 to $7.50). Guerrero's Nebraska Angus house burger (1/3 pound, $4.25) is flavored with his own thousand island dressing Thou·sand Island dressing n. A salad dressing made with mayonnaise, chili sauce, and seasonings. [Perhaps after the Thousand Islands.] Noun 1. . Eight desserts include three different cupcakes ($2.75), a banana cream pie Banana cream pie, or Banana creme pie, is a banana variant of cream pie. It is a dessert often comprised of the following ingredients: a baked pie crust (sometimes made from graham flour), sugar, flour, salt, milk, eggs, butter, vanilla, and bananas and banana ($3.25) and a Valrhona hot fudge sundae ($3.75). Information: (323) 255-6465 or www.oinkster.com. |
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