Browsing Tags

Fig

Restaurant Santa Monica

FIG Delivers “Kegs & Eggs” (and bacon cocktails) to Santa Monica

FIG, the market-driven restaurant in the core of the Fairmont Miramar Hotel, recently added breakfast and lunch. At Taste of the Nation, chef Ray Garcia described brunch, which debuted on Father’s Day and begins...
Read More
Tree Los Angeles

FIG: Spotlighting Seasonal Ingredients in Santa Monica Haven

An L.A. website recently proclaimed Eagle Rock as the best eating neighborhood in the city, which is hard to fathom. Still, the post was thought provoking. Where is the highest density of good food...
Read More
Steak Charleston

FIG: Best Chef-in-Waiting at Seasonal Charleston Winner

Mike Lata’s farm-driven Charleston restaurant, FIG, consistently delivers culinary satisfaction. This year, Robert Stehling from cross-town Hominy Grill won the James Beard Award for Best Chef: Southeast. It just as easily could have been...
Read More
Best Food Of The Year

2007 Top 10 Dishes Outside Los Angeles

Learn about the Top 10 Dishes I enjoyed outside Los Angeles in 2007, regardless of cuisine or price level. My devastating selections appear in alphabetical order instead of order of preference since these dishes...
Read More
Restaurant Charleston

FIG: Reinforcing Food Is Good at Seasonal Charleston Bistro

My family and I returned to Mike Lata’s seasonal Southern bistro in Charleston, FIG, for the second time in 2007. Once again, Lata proved (F)ood (I)s (G)ood. The Charleston Stage adaptation of David Sedaris’...
Read More
Chicken Charleston

FIG: Elevating Seasonal Cuisine in Charleston’s Historic Core

Chef-owner Mike Lata has developed a national reputation for his seasonal, local market-driven cuisine. This year, he was nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award, in the Best Chef Southeast category. After tasting his...
Read More