Tapas

Casting a new net in Kauai

2012-10-21 00:00:00

Beautiful Kauai can get crowded. Here are 10 ways to ditch the crowds (and save some money). Get your gear on: As you leave Lihue Airport, stop at Kalapaki Beach at Kama'Aina Surf & Sport, owned by Miguel (Migz) Graham, a former pro surfer, Kauai born...

California Weekend Escape: Paso Robles a classic vintage

2012-10-14 00:00:00

Like a fine wine, Paso Robles, Calif., gets better with age. I was delighted to find new downtown restaurants, wine bars and shops since last visiting five years ago. And there are now more than 200 eclectic wineries dotting the region's oak-shaded...

Wine of the Week: 2011 Ameztoi Rosé Getariako Txakolina 'Rubentis'

2012-08-18 00:00:00

2011 Ameztoi Ros� Getariako Txakolina "Rubentis" This ros� from the Spanish Basque country is something different. Grown on the hillside vineyards above the small fishing town of Getaria, the Ameztoi "Rubentis" is essentially a pink Txakolina made with a...

Counter Intelligence: LàOn Dining

2012-03-17 00:00:00

For all of the hundreds of restaurants in L.A.'s Koreatown, tucked behind untranslated signs and inside barely marked skyscrapers, in sleek malls and dusty strip centers, the area has never had much in the way of recognizable chefs. Generations of Los...

Counter Intelligence: Ración is Basque country

2012-05-25 12:23:00

San Sebastian's old town may be the most food-intensive neighborhood in the world, with street after street of pintxos bars and taverns and roaring restaurants, and hundreds of counters heaped with shellfish, hams and roasted meat — the answer to...

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2012-04-04 09:34:25

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Best meals of 2011

2012-01-05 00:00:00

The best meals of the year aren't necessarily about foie gras and truffles, or indulgent tasting menus, or even the technically best cooking of 2011. They're those dinners that surprised and delighted, that wove food and wine and friendship together in...

Restaurant review: M.B. Post delivers

2011-07-28 00:00:00

The concrete walls of the new M.B. Post (short for Manhattan Beach Post) are stenciled with giant faded postmarks beneath a barrel-vaulted ceiling. The design by Stephen Francis Jones of SF Jones Architects plays off the fact that from the '50s through...

Wine of the Week: 2008 Allende White Rioja

2011-09-12 12:39:00

Looking for an alternative to Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc? Lately, some interesting whites are coming out of Rioja, and Allende's Rioja blanca is one of them. A blend of Viura and Malvasia aged in French oak, the 2008 is a rich, almost oily wine,...

2007 Bodegas Sierra Cantabria Rioja 'Crianza'

2011-09-08 00:00:00

A 4-year-old red from Rioja for less than $20? That's why Bodegas Sierra Cantabria always gets such high marks for its price/quality ratio. Winemaker Marcos Eguren conjures up a delicious intro-level Rioja, one that anybody would be proud to serve. Modern...

Apéritifs help start the night on a positive note

2011-09-22 00:00:00

As life gets ever more hectic, I rely more and more on the civilized custom of a before-dinner ap�ritif. Sometimes it's all I can do to make it to that magical hour when I'm handed a Campari and soda or a glass of ros� and take a first bite of dusky olive...

Wine of the Week: 2010 Trajarinho Vinho Verde

2011-10-06 00:00:00

In Porto, I remember eating sardines grilled outside a little restaurant near the sea accompanied by gulps of chilled vinho verde. It's easier to find the wine here now, and this bottling is well worth seeking out. Look for the characteristic tall slope-...

Tapas Restaurant: Zach Vetter.

2013-04-15 12:18:00

When the weather turns nice, grab a table outside. Over the course of an evening, everyone you both have ever known will pass by , on their way to a movie at the Charles Theatre or into the Club Charles for a drink. It's the dining-out equivalent of changing your Facebook relationship status.

2013-02-11 17:46:05

Octopus and potato salad at D’Angelo Pizza, Wine Bar, Tapas in Weston.

2013-01-21 10:10:00