Articles By: Richard Foss

A La Carte

A La Carte

First Look, Deluxe Edition… All cities in the South Bay have had high-profile restaurant openings this year, and Hermosa’s most anticipated was definitely Palmilla. People have been peering through the windows at the stunning architecture for months, intrigued by decor [...]

A La Carte: a batch of new restaurant openings and closings in Hermosa and Redondo Beach

A La Carte: a batch of new restaurant openings and closings in Hermosa and Redondo Beach

Skulls Are Always In Season… As you drive up Highway 101 through Carpinteria, you pass a somewhat dilapidated red building covered with fake snow. It’s Mrs. Claus’s Kitchen, a restaurant that used to boast to tourists, “It’s Always Christmas Here.” [...]

Crush Bistro: Liberating dining hard to resist [RESTAURANT REVIEW]

Crush Bistro: Liberating dining hard to resist [RESTAURANT REVIEW]

Some restaurant meals invite introspection, even demand it; when a chef has sculpted some ornately garnished tower of unlikely ingredients, and served it forth, you don’t just toss it back and see what’s next. It would be like sprinting through [...]

Salt Creek Grille [RESTAURANT REVIEW]

Salt Creek Grille [RESTAURANT REVIEW]

The very best parties I have been to were the ones with a variety of moods, where a quiet conversation in a roomful of books is only a few steps away from a place of loud and wild revelry. Some [...]

Is there a distinct, emerging South Bay palate? Local celebrity chefs weigh in

Is there a distinct, emerging South Bay palate? Local celebrity chefs weigh in

Taste buds are as individual as fingerprints. This might seem to indicate that predicting what people will order at restaurants is doomed to fail. Nevertheless, there is such thing as regional flavor, and I thought it might be interesting to [...]

Rok Sushi, an exciting restaurant with a lounge vibe

Rok Sushi, an exciting restaurant with a lounge vibe

One of the challenges of our legal system is finding an impartial jury in a celebrity case, the kind that is splashed all over the media in real time. It used to be that jurors could deliberately avoid learning details [...]

FishBar [RESTAURANT REVIEW]

FishBar [RESTAURANT REVIEW]

Anyone who has tried living in a house that is in the midst of a major remodeling knows that it’s no fun at all. You put up with having to go around sawhorses to get to the bathroom, the sawdust [...]

Mysterious Galaxy, new bookstore to create communities of readers

Mysterious Galaxy, new bookstore to create communities of readers

Those who appreciate science fiction, fantasy, and mysteries have been watching the construction on Artesia near the Galleria with a hungry eye – when would Mysterious Galaxy, the South Bay’s newest bookstore, be open? The day has finally come, and [...]