(LOS ANGELES, Calif.) Times are tough for touring artists and Denny’s wants to help. Denny’s restaurants has just launched a unique new music program entitled Adopt-a-Band to provide free meals, promotional support, and concert after-parties to “adopted” bands on tour across the U.S.
The preferred choice of late-night dining crowds across the country and strongly [...]
Moose the restaurant, San Francisco. I wish.
I have long missed ClarkLewis. Yes I know the restaurant still exists as a name, a building and a place to consume food but the spirit of the place has been gutted. A recent visit there left me longing for the wild and crazy days of Michael, Naomi and Morgan before the meltdown. It’s now [...]
Hands down. Or hands up. Hands across America.
Heather (on the left) is the bartender at Silk, which is in the Pearl District.
I know, I know. Pearl District, right? You don’t have to say it. I know all about your awesome bars in the messier cooler neighborhoods. I KNOW THIS INTERNET so please don’t burn [...]
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Natasha Figueroa of the Ace Hotel, invited the Moose to dinner last night at the hotel’s newest addition the Clyde Commons restaurant. Owner Nate Tilden, formerly of Castagna, has brought in chef Jason Barwikowski last seen as the Gotham Tavern’s sous-chef and other familiar faces included Charlie Hodge from Wonder Cafe/Gotham as well [...]
An interesting article in the Sunday NYT. Read it and you can bone up on cool, new phrases - “In the East Village on any given weekend night, throngs of such Japanese crowd the restaurants known as izakaya that have sprung up on and around St. Marks Place, in an enclave sometimes called Little Tokyo. [...]
And hip hop is a big influence too - “D.J. Kaori, the host, began spinning records at the restaurant Match in SoHo in the mid-90’s. After being discovered by Funkmaster Flex of Hot 97, she graduated to D.J. jobs for celebrity parties. That translated into a recording contract for one — and now eight — [...]
The Oregonian reports today that “A performance of the Jimi Hendrix classic, “The Wind Cries Mary,” may cost Michael Dorr his restaurant. Dorr, the 37-year-old owner of Imbibe on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard, has been slapped with a federal lawsuit by companies that own the rights to a trio of popular classics that were performed at [...]