SMALL BITES VALLEY FEST WELL-STOCKED.Byline: Larry Lipson Numerous local restaurants - including Corner Bakery, California Roll & Sushi, B.J.'s Chicago Pizza & Brewery, Alessio's, Mi Piace, King's Fish House, Wolfgang Puck Cafe, P.F. Chang's, Ruth's Chris Steak House Ruth's Chris Steak House (NASDAQ: RUTH) is a chain of 106 steakhouses[1] across the United States and in several international locations. The restaurant is regarded as an upscale fine dining establishment, marking a gradual elevation in its status since its founding and Maggiano's Little Italy - will participate in the fourth annual Summer Food, Wine & Micro-Brew Fest on June 12 at the Westfield Shoppingtown Promenade in Woodland Hills. The event benefits the Valley Cultural Center. Tickets $30 in advance, $35 at the door: (818) 704-1358. OUT OF THIS WORLD: A big-bucks fund-raiser, the Epicurean Evening, for the UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation, will bring five of America's top steak house chefs to cook at the hilltop estate of ``space tourist'' Dennis Tito on June 14 in Pacific Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). . Robert del Grande of Houston's Cafe Annie, John Malik and Amy Stafford Malik of Greenville's 33 Liberty in South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. , Nancy Oakes of San Francisco's Boulevard and Ben Pollinger of New York's Union Square Cafe will show off their talents to dining attendees who'll pay $1,250 per ticket for dinner and wines. Purchasing information: (310) 794-2089. BUFFALO ROAM: Bison burgers 14 different ways are featured at Ted's Montana Grills. There are now eight of them in Colorado, Georgia, Ohio and Tennessee. Ted, of course, is Ted Turner, whose buffalo ranches help provide the specialty meat. His partner is Atlanta restaurateur res·tau·ra·teur also res·tau·ran·teur n. The manager or owner of a restaurant. [French, from restaurer, to restore; see restaurant. George McKerrow Jr., who provides the restaurant operation expertise. They are predicting expansion of 24 more locations next year and 36 added in 2005, according to a special report in the Nation's Restaurant News, a trade publication. That might sound like a heckuva heck·uv·a adj. Slang Used as an intensive: You've done a heckuva good job. [Alteration of heck of a.] lot of buffalo meat. But Turner owns 400,000 head, so he's certainly not worrying about supply. Just continuing demand. NAPKIN NOTES:Wealthy vegans can enjoy an eight-course dinner by a top French chef, Jean Francois Meteigner, at his La Cachette, 10506 Santa Monica Blvd., West L.A., on June 1. Tab is $60 ($30 extra with wines). Information and reservations: (310) 470-4992. ... Chef Helene An and the An family have taken their successful San Francisco and Beverly Hills Crustacean crustacean (krŭstā`shən), primarily aquatic arthropod of the subphylum Crustacea. Most of the 44,000 crustacean species are marine, but there are many freshwater forms. act to Las Vegas with the debut of their Prana at 3663 Las Vegas Blvd. South. ... Jody Maroni's ``haute dogs'' are now available in Honolulu and will soon appear at a food court at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. ... They didn't serve fajitas fajitas Noun, pl a Mexican dish of soft tortillas wrapped around fried strips of meat or vegetables [Mexican Spanish] at diners in the '40s, but they do now at Ruby's Diner in Woodland Hills and 36 other locations. ... A $20.03 three-course lunch is on the summer 2003 menu at the posh Melisse, 1104 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, (310) 395-0881. Will it be $20.04 next year? |
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