Tag: Campanile
Aha! moment during pandemic inspires cookbook by Silverton
For Proust, a delicious Madeleine cookie launched his acclaimed book, “In Search of Lost Time.” For Nancy Silverton, an excellent peanut butter cookie sent her on a baking journey that filled the lost time of the pandemic. At the start of the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, chef, restaurateur and cookbook author Silverton noticed all the […]
Who really saved our local, historic Los Altos Apartments?
And what did celebrity chef Nancy Silverton and Playboy Magazine have to do with it? On a Saturday night in the spring of 1996, through thick synthetic fog, Playboy Playmate Shauna Sand was struggling to walk in her 4-inch heels on uneven cobblestones in the courtyard at the historic Los Altos Apartments at Wilshire Boulevard […]
New restaurants: Tom Bergin’s Tavern, Republique, Blaze
Derrick Schreck has purchased, Tom Bergin’s Tavern, the 77-year-old landmark at 840 S. Fairfax Ave., after it had been closed for nine months for restoration. A Carthay Circle resident who lives a half-block away from Bergin’s, Schreck had been a regular for many years. Schreck’s partner Jordan Delp is general manager. He has worked at […]
