Cobras and Matadors on Hollywood Blvd. has expanded into a wine bar next door, we learned via Daily Candy's Weekend Guide. Sgt. Recruiter (Wait, did Jason Lee have another baby?) seats 15 and serves onion rings, oysters and mussels.
And Cafe Stella, which has long had a sort-of wine bar in one room, is making it into a full-on wine bar when the Frenchy bistro expands into an adjacent dining room
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A thick fog of stereotypes surrounds the type of person who lives in Los Angeles. Vapid actresses, fake tans, fake boobs, wannabe screenwriters with nothing to say, pretentious film snobs who pontificate on how horrible every movie ever made is, wily executives with no regard for humanity. The entertainment industry, it seems, brings with it a set of very unsavory types.
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Cobras and Matadors is a small, cramped, boisterous restaurant. Light bulbs whose filament barely glows orange flank the booths against each wall, and the walls are decorated with hills of used wine corks and large black and white photographs in black frames. Even on a Tuesday night at 8:00, the restaurant was nearly full, including the four or so patio tables, and we were glad to have reservations.
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The dish on the left, lomo embuchado (dry-cured pork loin) & cheese on raisin toast, asparagus cloaked in a walnut vinaigrette with shavings of aged Manchego, a Spanish sheep's milk cheese and socca (chickpea pancake). We also had the roasted beet salad. The embuchado was excellent -- the combo of saltiness, cheesiness and sweet from the raisin toast along with the salsa was perfect. Bill came out to $30 for 4 dishes which is average fare for tapas.
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Too many things: eggplant spread, potatoes, steak, mussels, lomo embuchado, smoked mushrooms, roasted asparagus, crabcake or a version thereof... we've all had a lot to drink and the memory is somewhat hazy.
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