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Barfly
Deb L.
New: Red Car Brewery, Old Town Torrance. Also New: Beluga Restaurant in MB offers wonderful seafood plus a caviar and champagne bar. New Back Outdoor Patio: Rocky Cola, PCH, HB. New Menu: Ein Stein's, Pier Ave, HB. Extended: The no corkage fee at Jackson's Village Bistro, Pier Ave, HB, through the month of August. Loca resto also on Pier Ave offers a no corkage fee as well. Now Serving B'fast: Stiltskins, PCH, RB. Coming Soon: La Choza Mexican resto on Catalina, Riviera Village, RB. Closed: Coffee Cartel, MB. Happy Anniversary: This month back in 1693 Dom Perignon figured out the double fermentation process that produces those tiny bubbles in white wine making it Champagne, (if it's from Champagne, France that is, otherwise it is simply sparkling wine). Celeb Sighting: Jen Teal at Ein Stein's - you guys know who she is...
Wine Tasting Events: This Saturday, August 5, from 7-10 p.m. experience some of California's finest wineries, the South Bay's finest restos and the Torrance Symphony as American Honda hosts this annual event. $60 per person. Proceeds go to benefit the Pediatric Therapy Network. Call 540-5858 for tickets and further info. Next Thursday, August 10 from 6:30 p.m. 'till they run out, Nate n' Lizzy's, 190th/PCH, HB will have a tasting of California coastal wines and complimentary cheese, fruit and appetizers. Call Dan or Alison at 318-6664 for more info...
Expansion: Love's, the family resto over on Hawthorne in Torrance, has added a new demention, er, dimension: The Lounge at Love's, located where Don Jose's used to be. With a 200 seat capacity dinning room plus a 150 person capacity lounge, the Lounge has one of the South Bay's largest dance floors. The Lounge at Love's offers Happy Hour from Noon-6 p.m. Monday through Friday - so you can basically have Happy Hour all day as most bars begin their HH's just as TLL's ends. Schedule for the first week of August: Thursday, August 3, Karaoke from 8-11:30pm; Friday, August 4, E! Groove live music and dancing from 9pm-1am; Saturday, August 5, B&B Music live music and dancing from 8 p.m. - 12 a.m. Check it out...
NFL: It's too early to tell how the new MNF team will work out this season: Miller needs to loosen up, Al needs to stop being so damn arrogant. I thought Fouts did a good job and Eric Dickerson on the sidelines was keepin' it real. Further observations from Dennis Miller's try-out this week: First of all, it is obvious that he is a well educated man, but must he throw it in our faces constantly? I mean, I'm not sure how references to the Sword of Damocles and the Tigres and Euphrates are gonna go over with Joe Bozo and the softball team hanging out at the bar, pints in hand. He's a ratings ploy I realize, but it is a shame that the network must turn to gimmicks to try and increase viewership. How about better games? How about NOT changing every team's roster every year? Remember when you followed a team because the same players were there year after year? It was kind of a familial thing. Maybe we should get back to that. Something else I noticed about DM is that, even if he isn't on camera, you can just tell by his voice that he has a smile on his face. I dig that. Speaking of the smile, did you know that chronic smiling actually tricks the brain into thinking you are in a good mood? When you smile or laugh your brain releases serotonin and other feel-good endorphins that lift your spirits. A cure-all for what ails you it isn't, that's what the drugs are for - wait a sec, did I just go off on a tangent? This week pre-season continues with 5 games on Friday and 10 on Saturday including the American Bowl played in Tokyo between Dallas and Atlanta...
Questions? Comments? Contact Deb L at BarflyDebL@aol.com