gastropub

Warm chocolate chip cookies, bourbon milk (rich & creamy, a bit too rich for me, but you might like it) & coffee ice cream -- like freshly ground, sweet, cold coffee.

Hot New Pick: The Corner Door

Looking for a cool bar where you can have ridiculously good food? I found just the place. It's the Corner Door on Washington Boulevard in Culver City, which is really the new Restaurant Row thanks to this place along with Waterloo & City and A-Frame. (Although admittedly W&C is kinda hit and miss.) I wasn't expecting too much when I first decided to check it out because, let's be honest, the Corner Door sounds like just another gastropub. But I have no problem admitting I was wrong. This place rocks!
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Churchill's mushroom pizza - Photo by Mar Yvette

Hot New Pick: The Churchill

Another gastropub? I know, I thought the same thing, too. But the same thing the Churchill is not. This new gastropub on Third Street is named after Sir Winston himself and it could do a good job making you as rotund as the old guy. Not because the food is fattening. It’s because the food is so good that you’re gonna keep eating and eating until you feel like you have to be trundled out rolly-polly style like Violet from “Charlie & the Chocolate Factory.” (Which I’ve secretly always kinda wanted to do.)
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