Opera Review

David Hockney’s set for Act II of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. Photo courtesy of San Francisco Opera

The Chicken Shack in Hermosa Beach

The South Bay is long on restaurants that have poetic ethnic names but don’t reflect the gritty reality. For the most part, this is a good thing. The Baja-style places in our town have palm fronds but not the mice that find this sort of decor a pleasant home, and our Southern roadhouses have air [...]

Foss reviews Frascati

Frascati. Photo by Richard Foss

Coco Noche review

I remember when I first saw the sign announcing that a new restaurant called Coco Noche was going to open in the space on Highland next to the Kettle in Manhattan Beach. From the name I figured that it would be another Cuban restaurant, and I was less than excited. When I found that the [...]

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