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Mediterranean

Restaurant Orange County

Mesa: Keeping Things Low-Profile in Costa Mesa

For its first year of business, the owner of Mesa didn’t allow any signage or photography, preferring to let the concept speak for itself and for support to build organically. In the past two...
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Restaurant Los Angeles

Carousel: Taking Lebanese Comfort Food for a Spin in Glendale

Greg and Rose Tcholakian opened their Lebanese kebab house in the back corner of Hollywood’s Hye Plaza in December 1983, deriving the name Carousel from a popular restaurant in Beirut. Their son Mike opened...
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Restaurant Sign San Francisco

COCO500: Loretta Keller’s SoMa Pace Setter [CLOSED]

On a recent visit to Orson, chef-owner Elizabeth Falkner mentioned that COCO500 is one of her favorite restaurants. Another night, family friends raved about the restaurant, unprompted. Chef Loretta Keller’s restaurant has been open...
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Restaurant Sign Los Angeles

Palate Food + Wine: Pairable Mediterranean Small Plates in Glendale [CLOSED]

Cinnabar’s closure in summer 2005 left a gaping hole in Glendale’s dining scene. It took almost three years to fill the space on the ground floor of one of the city’s pre-eminent wine storage...
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Restaurant Sign Los Angeles

Sako’s Mediterranean Cuisine: Turkish Delights in the Valley [CLOSED]

Sako’s Mediterranean Cuisine is one of the only restaurants recognized as Turkish in Los Angeles, and based on today’s lunch, that’s a shame. Sako’s Mediterranean Cuisine originated in Granada Hills and moved behind the...
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Restaurant Los Angeles

Ingredients: Good Results for Small Bites in Sparr Heights [CLOSED]

Michael Ruiz, former chef-owner of Bistro Verdu, resurfaced in the north Glendale neighborhood of Sparr Heights in December 2007 with his boutique gourmet shop: Ingredients. Ruiz explained the name, saying, “That’s where you start....
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