![]() ![]() Melanie Wine Bar is prepping to launch a new daytime lunch program, selling smash burgers and other fare from chef Jorge Simental under the name Melanie Burger. Expect more than 80 restaurants to participate with one-off menus, multi-course affairs, and budget-friendly collaborations. The annual showcase of area restaurants is entering its 15th year, and the deals are more prolific than ever. Restaurant Week is coming to the greater Palm Springs/Coachella Valley region from June 2 to June 11. “It’s not that I don’t see a future in fine dining, it’s just that at the end of the day I’ve gravitated towards creating the types of restaurants that I feel like people want to go to in LA,” says Citrin, “and also projects that I can grow and replicate.” Deals in the desert ![]() Melisse chef Josiah Citrin gets candid for a new feature in Honest Cooking, talking about how he has grown his restaurant empire, the expectations Angelenos have when eating out, and what he thinks of his own fine dining cooking in 2023. The space has been in preview mode for more than a week, and opens wide on Thursday, May 11, keeping hours from 11 a.m. ![]() ![]() The space, designed by AvroKO and PGAL, and overseen by Robert Earl of Earl Enterprises (Virtual Dining Concepts, Buca di Beppo, Planet Hollywood), was conceived as a fully-realized dining hub with multiple standalone full-service bars, a cocktail garden, and a semi-secret arcade area. More than two dozen food and drink vendors now call Topanga Social home, including LA hotspots like Katsu Sando, DTown Pizzeria, Slab BBQ, Tail O’ the Pup, Amboy Quality Burgers, the Pie Room by Curtis Stone, and tiny Glendale Armenian restaurant Mini Kabob. That’s great for diners there, and even better for some of the restaurants tapped to expand into the giant 55,000-square-foot space, with its hundreds of seats and endless possibilities. The Westfield Topanga food hall project opens to the West Valley and beyond this Thursday, May 11, meaning some of LA’s most familiar restaurants can now be found in the deepest reaches of the San Fernando Valley. ![]()
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