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Rivera

Latin Restaurant Los Angeles

Rivera (Conexiones): A River Runs Through Latin America [CLOSED]

When chef John Rivera Sedlar opened Rivera with Bill Chait and designer Eddie Sotto in January 2009, their pan-Latin concept signaled a quantum leap forward for the downtown dining scene. Restaurant critic S. Irene...
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Food Festival Santa Monica

Top 5 Tastes from 2010 Star Chefs

Last night, Star Chefs convened their 2010 “Rising Star Chefs Tasting Gala and Awards Ceremony” in the fig-shaded courtyard of Santa Monica’s Fairmont Miramar Hotel. “Rising Chefs” from Southern California each prepared a dish...
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Restaurant Week Los Angeles

Game Plan for dineLA Restaurant Week (Winter 2010)

  • Food
  • January 12, 2010
dineLA Restaurant Week drew droves of Angelenos to 260 L.A. restaurants in the fall. Now dineLA is staging a third Restaurant Week from January 24 – 29 and January 31 – February 5, 2010,...
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Top Los Angeles Cocktails

Los Angeles cocktail culture is thriving for a variety of reasons, including the passionate contingent of exceptional bartenders and mixologists who aren’t just rooted in the past, but strive to create new classics. Southern...
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Honey

The Glutster Takes on Rivera’s Honey Tasting

  • Food
  • November 12, 2009
Curious as I was when first asked to cover this event, I felt cloyed after having finished! A four-course tasting menu sponsored by the National Honey Board took place at the super hip and...
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Tequila Los Angeles

“Meeting of the Great Minds of Tequila” at Rivera

It was standing room only in Rivera‘s “sangre,” a blood-red back room decorated with conquistador helmet lamps and walls crafted from backlit bottles of extra añejo tequila. Bartenders, bloggers, buyers and curiosity seekers paid...
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