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3 Culver City Eateries Make Jonathan Gold's 2014 Best Restaurant List

Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times ran a special section devoted to food cognoscente Jonathan Gold's 101 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles. Gold clearly identified the Helms Bakery District as the latest center of gravity for exceptional food in Culver City: two out of…

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Added by Scupine on May 19, 2014 at 6:00am — No Comments

The Detour Restaurant is Coming to Culver City

The storefront between The Corner Door and ChocoVivo in West Culver City has been closed for a while now, but recently a Public Notice of Application to Sell Alcoholic Beverages has been affixed to the boarded-up exterior, affording us a clue to its future. It will be called "The Detour" and will be a "general eating place" with a full liquor license. 

The Detour will…

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Added by Scupine on April 7, 2014 at 6:30am — No Comments

ShopEatSleep Blog Reviews East Borough Vietnamese Restaurant in Culver City

I reported on the recent opening of East Borough, the new Vietnamese restaurant in downtown Culver City. Now Maya Meinert -- of the always reliable blog ShopEatSleep.com -- has posted a…

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Added by Scupine on February 25, 2014 at 6:00am — No Comments

EnjoEat Classico and EnjoEat Espresso Open in Downtown Culver City

Last week, two new restaurants opened downtown Culver City -- in the long-unused building off to the side of the Pacific Theatre. The building is there on the right of the above picture -- you can see how close it is to the Culver Hotel. Culver City trivia: it's our city's original city hall, police department and fire department.…

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Added by Scupine on February 10, 2014 at 6:00am — No Comments

East Borough Offers Modern Vietnamese Dishes to Downtown Culver City

East Borough, a new Vietnamese restaurant in downtown Culver City began serving lunch this week and will begin dinner service next week. An extension of a popular Costa Mesa restaurant, East Borough offers a variety of Bahn Mi (traditional Vietnamese) sandwiches, which offer grilled pork or meatballs or chicken salad or tofu or sardines, etc., with cucumbers,…

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Added by Scupine on January 23, 2014 at 6:30am — No Comments

LA Weekly Ranks Gnocchetti at Bucato in Culver City Among the Best Dishes of 2014

The LA Weekly named the Gnocchetti at Bucato the 9th best dish in Los Angeles in their annual round-up of the city's best food. Here's what the paper said about the pesto pasta dish, which author Besha Rodell called "bright, mellow, and almost floral":

It's hard to pick a favorite pasta from Evan Funke's Bucato in Culver City. In fact, it's hard to…

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Added by Scupine on January 6, 2014 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Fin Asian Fusion Restaurant Takes Over Former Mi Ranchito Space in Culver City

Mi Ranchito Mexican Restaurant in West Culver City has closed, and Fin -- an Asian fusion restaurant -- has very quickly taken its place. Despite the fact that Mi Ranchito's (charmingly crude) mural still adorns the west face of the building, the restaurant's (formerly charmingly cluttered) interior has been transformed.…

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Added by Scupine on November 11, 2013 at 6:00am — No Comments

Bucato Restaurant in Culver City Draws Rave Review from LA Weekly

According to Besha Rodell in LA Weekly's recent review of Bucato, the Culver City restaurant "turns out some of the most glorious pastas this city has ever seen, each bowl a small miracle....This pesto is revelatory in its vast difference from run-of-the-mill…

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Added by Scupine on November 4, 2013 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Native Food Vegan Cafe in Downtown Culver City Just Temporarily Closed for Remodeling

Fear not, fans of Native Foods Cafe's Rockin' Moroccan Earth Bowl or Wild Jackelope BBQ Sandwich. Although Native Foods' front window has been covered in brown paper, the cafe just closed for a little remodeling. 

Added by Scupine on October 15, 2013 at 6:30am — No Comments

Muddy Leek in Culver City Now Offering Fresh Bread Daily

Muddy Leek in Culver CIty sent me a tweet this morning with the picture above and the exclamation: "Right out of the oven every day!" If the bread is as good as it looks, it's worth checking out.

Muddy Leek -- the "super seasonal" restaurant opened in December of 2012 by caterer Bon Melange and chef Whitney Flood -- was described by Jonathan Gold this March as…

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Added by Scupine on October 3, 2013 at 6:00am — 2 Comments

Linus BBQ Restaurant Will Pop Up in Culver CIty This Saturday

Culver City's Bar & Garden will host a pop-up of Linus BBQ, an Alabama-style barbecue pop-up that (according to Eater LA) uses applewood for smoking, this Saturday, October 5, from 3-9 p.m. Bar & Garden is located at 6142 Washington Blvd. in the…

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Added by Scupine on October 2, 2013 at 6:00am — No Comments

USA Today Names Tito's One of the 15 Best Tacos in the Country

USA Today recently enumerated the 15 Best Tacos in America, and Culver City's own Tito's Tacos made the list! To assemble the list, the newspaper "asked more than 200 of the nation's leading food writers and taco authorities to send over a list of their absolute favorite tacos in the country."

Here's what they had to say about Tito's…

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Added by Scupine on September 4, 2013 at 6:00am — No Comments

Bucato Restaurant in Helms Complex in Culver CIty Opens

Chef Evan Funke and partner Ed Keebler's long-awaited Italian restaurant in the Helms Complex, Bucato, is now open. A recent LA Times feature described the restaurant's devotion to handmade…

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Added by Scupine on August 12, 2013 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

Sang Yoon of Culver City's Father's Office Competing in This Season's "Top Chef Masters" on Bravo

Executive Chef Sang Yoon -- the mastermind behind Culver City's Father's Office gastropub as well as Lukshon (small-plate South-East Asian cuisine) -- is currently competing in Bravo's "Top Chef Masters." On this, the fifth season of the show, Yoon is competing against 12 other chefs for $100,000, to be donated to a charity of their choice. Chef Yoon is competing for Worldwide…

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Added by Scupine on July 29, 2013 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop in Culver City Celebrating 37th Birthday in Style

Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop is celebrating its 37th birthday by offering its most famous sandwich, The Bobbie, made with in-house roasted turkey, cranberry sauce, homemade stuffing and a touch of mayo, for $1 on Thursday, June 13th from 3pm-7pm at all California…

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Added by Scupine on June 10, 2013 at 6:00pm — 3 Comments

3 Culver City Restaurants Make Jonathan Gold's List of the 101 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles

Last Thursday, the Los Angeles Times ran a special section devoted to restaurant maven Jonathan Gold's 101 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles. Ever the iconoclast, Gold called out at least two restaurants that are (mostly) off most people's Culver City radar. "Classical…

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Added by Scupine on May 31, 2013 at 6:00pm — 3 Comments

Shojin Japanese Vegan Restaurant to Open on the Former Sazon Site in Culver City This Friday

That didn't take long. Just a couple of weeks ago, we heard that Sazon Latin Fusion in West Culver City was closing its doors. Now comes the news that the space wil be taken over by a Japanese vegan and macrobiotic restaurant named Shojin -- this Friday, March 8th! The original Shojin is located on S. Alameda in Little Tokyo, so it's authentic. The whole menu, which includes…

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Added by Scupine on March 7, 2013 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Sazon Restaurant in Culver City is Saying So-Long

Grubstreet LA is reporting that Sazon Latin Fusion Restaurant in Culver City (pictured above, at Washington Blvd. and Centinela, between the former site of Dreamworld Comics and Lucky 7 Liquor) will be closing its doors later this month. So get over there quickly…

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Added by Scupine on February 19, 2013 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Enjoeat Italian Restaurant Coming to Downtown Culver City

LA Eater is reporting that an Italian restaurant and gelato bar named Enjoeat and helmed by four-star chef Antonio Pellini is coming to downtown Culver City. Pellini's restaurant in Gardena is especially known for it's amazing thin-crust pizza.…

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Added by Scupine on February 18, 2013 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Scandinavian Restaurant to Replace Dreamworld Comics in Culver City

According to LA Eater, a Scandinavian restaurant called Gravlax is coming to the Southwest corner of Washington Blvd. and Centinela in Culver City. It's the former home of Dreamworld Comics, which has moved to the (long-vacant gas station)…

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Added by Scupine on February 12, 2013 at 6:00pm — No Comments

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