SMALL BITES TAKE COMFORT IN LOW PRICES.Byline: Larry Lipson Restaurateurs whose restaurants are suffering from the summer doldrums, take note. Twin Palms, 101 W. Green St., Pasadena, makes a bid for the family trade with its new ``Friday Family Dinners.'' As a prix-fixe meal deal, adults pay $15.95, kids 6-12 are $7.50, and children 5 and under are free. The grown-ups choose from Santa Maria-style barbecued tri-tip, blackened black·en v. black·ened, black·en·ing, black·ens v.tr. 1. To make black. 2. To sully or defame: a scandal that blackened the mayor's name. 3. filet of mahi-mahi or rotisseried Yucatan chicken. Children's options are macaroni and cheese, corn dogs, chicken tenders, and cheese and pepperoni pizza. The family also gets a Caesar salad, cole 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 with apples and walnuts, a black bean black bean see castanospermum australe, erythrophleumchlorostachys. salad with chipotle vinaigrette, chilled gazpacho soup, house- baked panini Panini (pä`nēnē), fl. c.400 B.C., Indian grammarian. His Ashtādhyāyī [eight books] (tr. 1891) is one of the earliest works of descriptive linguistics and is also the first individually authored treatise on Sanskrit. rolls and corn-on-the-cob. Desserts are peach cobbler, brownies with double fudge icing and trips to a soft serve ice cream station. This family dinner special will be available through September on Fridays only between 5:30 and 7 p.m. In October, the Twin Palms homestyle autumn buffet begins, with a range of comfort foods. Information and reservations: (626) 577-2567. READY FOR WINE TIME: The West Hollywood Palm, 9001 Santa Monica Blvd., has snagged Michael Mondavi to host a five-course winemaker event at 7 p.m. on Wednesday. The $125 per person dinner (includes tax and tip) has the Palm's shrimp cocktail paired with Robert Mondavi winery's 1999 To Kalon fume blanc reserve, then a mixed green salad with the 2000 Napa pinot noir. Crab cake and the 2001 Carneros chardonnay precede the main course of filet mignon with sauteed mushrooms and steamed string beans paired with Mondavi's 2000 Stags Leap cabernet sauvignon. Ending is a serving of mixed berries with cream and the 2000 Moscato Moscato can have several meanings see:
Credit card reservations: (310) 550-8811. ROOKIES OF THE YEAR: The September issue of Food & Wine magazine rates Bastide Bastides are fortified[1] new towns built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony and Aquitaine during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, although some authorities count Mont-de-Marsan and Montauban, which was founded in 1144,[2] as the first bastides. , the uppity, posh French spot at 8475 Melrose Place, as fourth out of 10 best new restaurants opened in the last year. The restaurant only serves dinner (prix-fixe style) on weeknights (Monday through Friday) and, currently, no lunches. Reservations: (323) 651-5950. Travelers probably will be interested in the other nine. No. 1 is WD-50 of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . No. 2 is Piperade in San Francisco. And No. 3 is Salt of Philadelphia. Five through 10 are UpStairs on the Square in Cambridge, Mass.; Pili, Pili in Chicago; Solera A solera is a series of barrels or other containers used for aging liquids such as Sherry, Madeira, Marsala, Mavrodafni (a dark-red fortified dessert wine from Greece), Muscat, Muscadelle, Balsamic and Sherry Vinegars. of Minneapolis; L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon in Paris, France; Zaytinya in Washington, D.C.; and London's Tom Aikens. |
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