Urban Ninja
Dine LA starts today. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to try as many restaurants as LA has to offer in the next two weeks. Lucky for you, the restaurants make it pretty easy for you to accomplish this task.
Well, a bunch of restaurants opt into one of three dining categories and present a specially priced three – course meal for lunch and/or dinner. Diners (aka: you) choose from three choices for each course including appetizer, entrée and dessert. Prices and meal periods vary by restaurant and meal period and exclude beverages, tax and gratuity. Check out their website for a list of participating restaurants and to find out what deals they have to offer.
| Lunch | Dinner | ||
| $ | Deluxe Dining | $16 | $26 |
| $$ | Premier Dining | $22 | $34 |
| $$$ | Fine Dining | $28 | $44 |
So try a new restaurant in LA. There are so many to choose from. If you’re still not convinced, you can read about my adventures from the last DineLA.
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Here are a few of my favorite participating restaurants:
Apparently, the new hipster hangout of choice is one of the many nouveaux German Taverns popping up around the City of Angels. Maybe it is the array of beers on tap that draws them. Perhaps it is the delectable selection of wursts. There are several beer halls to choose from: Wurst küche (Downtown and soon to be on the Westside), Wirsthaus (Hollywood), and the mother of them all, ye old Gasthaus, Red Lion (Silverlake). Having sampled all of them, it is safe to say that they are all excellent.
However, if you would like to really immerse yourself in ALL THINGS GERMAN, let me introduce you to Alpine Village.
Alpine Village has held the oldest and largest Oktoberfest celebration in Southern California: 43 years of boozing and chosen by USA Today as “one of the best Oktoberfests in the world!” There are buxom broads with armfulls of beer steins filled with German Beer, oom pah pah bands flown in from Germany and German Comfort food just down the 405.
2011 DATES
Every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
September 9 – October 23
Event times
Friday: 6PM until 1AM
Saturday: 6PM until 1AM
Sunday: 1PM until 6PM
Friday and Saturday nights are louder and geared for adults;
Sundays are family days with kiddie jumpers, sweet treats and games.
Alpine Village
833 W. Torrance Blvd.
Torrance, CA 90502
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Alright, I hope you enjoyed the graphics for your own swap party. Now, it’s time for the final installment of Clothing Swap madness. If you missed the first two segments you can read them here:
Summer Swap Party Part I
Summer Swap Party Part II
The final pieces to the puzzle are choosing a date and fabulous food.
Spring or Fall is great. After all, it is the time of year when people switch out their wardrobes and clean house a little bit (aka stuff gets thrown out… or in our case recycled and re-used). Summer is the time for vacations, so even though Autumn and I threw our party in the summertime, we would recommend throwing your party in the Spring or Fall.
Last year’s party featured food by the amazing Leslie Sarna. My favorite were these Bowtie Pasta Crunchies (click for Leslie’s recipe)
This year, we decided it would be more fun to have a brunchy/breakfasty event, so Autumn made a delicious Frittata and I made homemade Granola! Leslie also made an amazing Lemon Cake… but that recipe is a secret. Maybe if you visit her blog and ask her very nicely, she may share it with you.
Over the years, we have been privileged to give to many wonderful charities. Since we have tons of girly clothing, we tend to give to charities for women. Some of our favorites have been:
