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South Bay restaurants step up take-out during dining-in prohibition. Good stuff delivers 700 meals to hospitals

  Former pro golfer Kevin Leach found his passion for wine in a place that has never produced a drop of it. “I was stuck in the airport, and the only magazine I could find in English was a copy of Wine Spectator. I read it from cover to cover, classifieds and everything, five times. […]

Low visibility, high concept

Starting The Year Running: Once in a while a neighborhood erupts in openings, and it seems to be Redondo’s turn. Starting in the south, after a long remodeling job, Matty’s Crawdaddies is serving in Riviera Village. They are seafood-centric but serving much more than peel-and-eat shellfish. You can get scallops, shrimp, chowder, a Connecticut lobster […]

Trump dining tariff in the offing?

The new Riviera House gets almost everything right

Terranea’s Catalina Kitchen Friday night buffet may be too much of a good thing.

Common Complaint, Technological Response… Look at any survey of diners and one of the top complaints will be uncomfortably noisy restaurants. Since my email is at the end of each of these columns I hear this a lot, often with admonitions that I should tell people how loud restaurants are. I frequently do mention this, […]

Despite having grown up up eight blocks from the beach, I never learned to surf, as I was so nearsighted that I couldn’t see the waves that were about to swamp me. Even so, that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy watching surfers and have an appreciation for surf music and surf culture. Those things seep […]

Gabi James introduces flavors from Southern Spain and France to the Redondo Riviera

The housemade crusty bread served on seating shows Luna Rossa is putting its woodfired oven to good use

What started out as a burger-and-a-beer spot unveils a new menu by Primo Italia chef Michelangelo Aliarga