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Time Out
24-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
The summer edition of Dine LA is finally back—and here are our favorite deals
Beginning tomorrow, Dine LA is back. Now in its 17th year, L.A.'s biggest restaurant week offers prix-fixe menus starting from $15 per person, though many places now opt to offer menus in the priciest, wide-ranging category: $65 and above. For the next two weeks, Angelenos can score a handful of small discounts at restaurants across the city, including a few of what I consider the city's best restaurants. For those who were going to splurge anyway, you can even score a two-Michelin-star meal at a $75 discount over at Mélisse in Santa Monica. For all of those hunting for an actual bargain, I've found 17 different places across Los Angeles that I'd consider a good deal, in one way or another. My personal favorites include the pair of $25 and $35 meal deals from Koreatown's Soban, home to L.A.'s best soy-marinated crab and one of the best banchan selections in the city. (Any genuine lover of Korean cuisine knows that the complimentary side dishes provided with your meal are one of the best representations of a given restaurant's true culinary capabilities.) Did I mention Soban is also one of the city's best restaurants? Another truly great option is the $65 prix-fixe menu from the Girl & the Goat in the Arts District, which includes five family-style dishes and a matcha tres leches with rhubarb-strawberry sorbet for dessert. While Top Chef alum Stephanie Izard's globally inspired small plates restaurant often gets overlooked with all the other amazing options in the destination restaurant-heavy neighborhood, the Dine LA menu might just remind you why this brick-lined, plant-filled restaurant is a great option to keep in your back pocket for your next night out in greater Downtown L.A. Until Somni reopened last November and upstaged all other restaurants in West Hollywood (it also recently got three Michelin stars!), Ardor was my top dining pick in the city-neighborhood, and it's also participating in Dine LA. The swanky hotel restaurant inside the West Hollywood EDITION offers a vegetable-forward menu within its cinematic dining room and verdant outdoor patio. The $65 prix-fixe menu nets you the eatery's signature tomato-topped milk bread, plus your choice of Spanish octopus or tandoor carrots as an appetizer. For mains, choose between skirt steak, king crab tagliatelle or Ardor's standout sweet potato curry. While I've yet to personally try the chocolate espresso torte on Ardor's Dine LA menu, I've loved every dessert I've tried at the restaurant, so it's likely a safe bet as well. Finally, I'd like to recommend bookmarking two restaurants that have yet to release their Dine LA menus: Mr. T in Hollywood and Sushi Kisen in Arcadia. Both restaurants will be offering menus in the $65 and over category. Mr. T offers République alum Alisa Vannah's rendition of modern Parisian cuisine. Co-owned by music mogul Jay-Z (whose offices are located upstairs), it's one of the best French restaurants in the city, with a gorgeous patio full of string lights and a fire pit. As for Sushi Kisen, the San Gabriel Valley sushi restaurant is one of my favorite places for sushi in L.A. County. Even on a regular day, the omakase at the counter is a relative bargain. Despite the fact it takes over an hour for me to drive there in normal traffic, I spent my birthday weekend shlepping to Arcadia for the restaurant's second anniversary kaisendon, which came topped with blue crab, ikura, sea urchin and shrimp. The set also came with a side of marinated sashimi. While Sushi Kisen has yet to publish its Dine LA menu, you can rest assured that whatever they're offering will be a steal in terms of fish quality and overall value. While it's true that the vast majority of Dine LA prix-fixe menus aren't really deals anymore, these handful of options will be more than enough to keep you happy during the summer edition. Bon appétit!
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'TIME' Celebrates Women of the Year Including Nicole Kidman, Olivia Munn, Avery Colvert
"Well I was told I would be doing a small toast from the table, and now I'm standing on this stage ... with nothing prepared," said honoree Nicole Kidman at the TIME 2025 Women of the Year gala celebrating this year's list at the West Hollywood Edition on Feb. 25. "I said, 'What should I talk about'? And they said, 'Just speak from the heart.' So I am," Kidman continued. "The acronym that I thought of about 'HOPE' was: Honor each other, create Opportunities for each other, Orotect each other and Encourage each other. And that's what this room is doing tonight. They're — all of you — are creating hope. ... May the work continue, and may the future be bright for all of us." The evening began with a cocktail hour in the verdant restaurant Ardor over lively tunes by DJ Shay. Then, the chicly dressed group of ladies and a few gents — including notables Anna Cathcart, Sophia Bush, Whitney Cummings, Karen Pittman, Dylan Mulvaney, Lucy Hale and Kat Graham — migrated into the ballroom for a dinner and program presented by P&G, Rolex, Amazon, Chase, Deloitte, American Heart Association and Toyota. "[TIME is] a platform for changemakers — and that's one of the many reasons I'm so proud to be the CEO," said Jessica Sibley, who welcomed guests. Then, as gala-goers enjoyed a salad and sea bass, the group of this year's distinguished women made toasts, including founder/ CEO of Women in Liberation & Leadership Fatou Baldeh, WNBA champion and Olympic gold medalist A'ja Wilson, Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot. Avery Colvert received her honor for founding Altadena Girls — "a late-night idea dreamt up only 46 long days ago when my neighborhood, school and friends' houses were burning down," the 14-year-old said of the Eaton Fire. "To go from feeling scared, depressed and hopeless to feeling empowered, supported and hopeful about the future in such as a short amount of time goes to show the incredible power of kindness and community." Actress Daphnee Duplaix previewed her new soap opera, CBS' Beyond the Gates, and spoke about the first Black actors ever cast in the genre: "P&G [Procter & Gamble] has a legacy of pioneering moments in soaps. They cast Cicely Tyson as the first Black actress on daytime television in Guiding Light. And James Earl Jones made history as the first African American man in a recurring role in As the World Turns." Actress Olivia Munn recalled a great day — when both she and her now-five-month-old baby daughter, who'd had medical issues on account of her small feet and larger thighs ("brioche buns that could feed a family of seven"), felt healthy. "I have years to go with my cancer treatment," Munn said, "but on that Friday, my joints didn't ache, and I wasn't too hot or too cold from going into a surgical menopause and my brain fog had cleared — for at least that day, anyway. ... And as I held my daughter, I was so grateful that healthy enough to see every minute of it all. Each day brings with it its own problems, and my hope is that you'll be healthy enough to enjoy them. So protect your health — and love your body like you're a chunky newborn baby."
