Last night after watching Sweeney Todd at the Arclight and consequently swearing off meat for at least a month, Shelley and I decided to finally check out Luna Park’s Mini Bar cocktail flight ($13.50). I was in dire need of a drink anyway after that bloody movie. Yes, definitely no shepherd’s pies for a lonnnng [...]
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You know how I keep complaining about how it seems everyone is charging over $15 for cocktails nowadays? Well, every night at Luna Park you can get a flight of three mini cocktails for $13.50. Three different cocktail tastes for under $15. They’re calling it the Mini Bar at Luna Park, very cute.
Even cuter, the [...]
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There’s a reason that, over there in the sidebar excerpt of my “About” section, I so flagrantly display my IM handle, and slightly less obvious to lurking spambots, though no less shameless, my email address. Desperate cry for attention though it may be, the bottom line is that I love chatting with people about food and dining. The only thing that gives me greater pleasure than receiving an email or IM from a reader, is being asked for a restaurant recommendation. I have, on more than one occasion, entertained the idea of being a Concierge in a luxury hotel or community, diving deep into my personal data bank to match guests with their...
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Luna Park...still going strong but with a patio to boot
I'm sure many of you have either heard or gone to Luna Park by now, so why not do things a little differently. Why not just tell it to you like a friend while you're hanging out with me at my place. "What you've never been there? Oh it's great. Great food and AMAZING desserts! When you walk in it's pretty dark and the tables are pretty close but the bar area lights up the way to the kitchen that you can see immediately see on your left. You're best to make...
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I think every restaurant, even the busy and successful ones, should take a look around every few years and see if a little updating is in order...lest you end up saddled with a bunch of food fads from the last decade. Luna Park, which amazingly has already been open since 2003 (how did those four years go so fast?) has a new executive chef, Todd Butler, a new patio and a few new menu items. Of course they haven't messed with the make your own s'mores or goat cheese fondue, since the loyal customers wouldn't like that. But Butler, who comes from Virginia by way of Firefly and Indigo, is also making pizza now, with toppings like Moroccan...
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The first meeting for Supper Club! Luna Park was the place because it is nearly impossible to get a reservation for anytime other than 10pm currently at Pizzeria Mozza...I will get there someday though. Anyways, on to Luna Park...I had made reservations and upon arrival, they stuffed us in one of the very cozy back booths near the
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We all love a great neighborhood restaurant. A friendly, reliable place where you can tuck in and have a consistently good meal. When I lived in West Hollywood, that place was Hugo's. When I lived downtown, it was Daily Grill (hey, there's not a lot of choices after 2PM down there). Now that I live in Miracle Mile, I was hoping my friendly neighborhood restaurant would be Luna Park, but it won't be.
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Gastroblog's Jackie Danicki and I went to lunch at Luna Park yesterday. I've been lunching there since they opened, and although the prices seem to have risen a bit, the service was actually slightly faster than some of the other nail-bitingly slow lunches I've had there, so I guess it evens out. Jackie suggested starting with the goat cheese fondue appetizer, which would be a perfect snack with a beer or cocktail in the evening. I liked my cobb salad, which had good ingredients in nice large hunks, not that yucky chopped up kind of cobb salad, but could have used just a touch more dressing. Jackie's Chinese chicken salad was not as successful, but Luna Park gets it right most of the time, especially with their salmon, which I'm still remembering fondly from my last lunch there. Jackie had lots of fascinating things to say about building marketing blogs for companies, local bloggers, living in London, and Arianna Huffington's new blog project with Tina Brown, David Geffen, Larry David, Tom Freston et al.
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