SMALL BITES > NEW MORTON'S IN WEST VALLEY.The San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. Valley's second Arnie Morton's The Steakhouse has announced it will open Dec. 1 at 6250 Canoga Ave., Woodland Hills. The nationwide chain, known out of the Los Angeles area as Morton's, also operates an Arnie Morton's in Burbank at 3400 W. Olive Ave., in downtown L.A. at 735 Figueroa St., in Beverly Hills at 435 S. La Cienega Blvd. and two under the Morton's name in Orange County (Anaheim and Santa Ana). This latest location is the chain's 78th. The new 9,000-square-foot restaurant joins the rest of the Morton's in featuring USDA USDA, n.pr See United States Department of Agriculture. prime, aged, grain-fed beef, along with fresh fish and seafood. It will serve dinner daily. This will be the first Morton's in California to present a glass-encased, temperature-controlled wine room holding more than 200 wines. According to the latest Zagat Survey, which rates it pretty high with 25 out of 30 points for food, the average check runs around $61 per person. Information: (818) 703-7272 or www.mortons.com. Celebrity chef and Patina Group restaurant magnate Joachim Splichal has taken over the former Maple Drive restaurant in Beverly Hills, renamed it Paperfish and is expected to open it at 345 N. Maple Drive for lunch only before the end of this month. With its name possibly inspired by its snapper snapper, name for members of the Lutianidae, a family of spiny-finned food and game fishes found chiefly in tropical coastal waters. Snappers are carnivorous, active, and voracious, with large mouths and sharp teeth. Most species travel in dense schools. en papillote ($33) dinner dish, Paperfish lists several fresh fish and shellfish plates on its menu that include turbot turbot: see flatfish. turbot Species (Scophthalmus maximus, family Scophthalmidae or Bothidae) of broad-bodied European flatfish, a highly valued food fish. It lives along sand and gravel shores. , skatewing, monkfish monkfish Any of 10–12 species (genus Squatina, family Squatinidae) of sharks having a flattened head and body, with winglike pectoral and pelvic fins that make them resemble rays. The tail bears two dorsal fins, and behind each eye is a prominent spiracle. , wild Scottish salmon, Santa Barbara spot prawns, Maine lobster, Maine diver scallops, cuttlefish cuttlefish, common name applied to cephalopod mollusks that have 10 tentacles, or arms, 8 of which have muscular suction cups on their inner surface and 2 that are longer and can shoot out for grasping prey, and a reduced internal shell enbedded in the enveloping , black cod and blue crab. Dinner service will begin in January. Information: (310) 858-6030 or www.patinagroup.com. Sips and nibbles Readying to celebrate its 75th anniversary is The SideCar 1. sidecar - Synonym slap on the side. Especially used of add-ons for the late and unlamented IBM PCjr. 2. sidecar - The IBM PC compatibility box that could be bolted onto the side of an Amiga. , 3029 E. Main St., Ventura, housed in a historic 1910 Pullman rail car that was opened as a diner in its present location in 1933. Information: (805) 653-7433. -- The eight colorful handcrafted hand·craft n. Variant of handicraft. tr.v. hand·craft·ed, hand·craft·ing, hand·crafts To fashion or make by hand. hand·craft platters used for large sushi orders that hang behind the sushi bar at R23, 923 E. Second St., downtown L.A., have been valued at $5,000 apiece. Information: (213) 687-7178. -- Five-course bollito misto winter dinners (multiple meats and vegetables boiled together) are $49 with magnums of wine at 20 percent discount at Il Grano, 11359 Santa Monica Blvd., West L.A. every Wednesday. Information and reservations: (310) 477-7886. |
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