Akbar Restaurant Review:
Akbar offers well-prepared Indian food at reasonable prices in a comfortable, contemporary setting. The tandoor produces not only the usual chicken, kebabs and puffy breads, but also such specialties as Chilean sea bass. Other specials include soft shell crab and bison tandoori. Chefs make the chutneys---coconut, cilantro and pickled vegetable---fresh daily. Curries include a pepper-lamb...
This restaurant is closed drago restaurant review:
Before he opened DRAGO Centro downtown, this smart, sophisticated Santa Monica ristorante stood as Celestino Drago’s flagship and remains a bastion of fine Italian cooking on the Westside. Designed by the late, well-known Brent Saville, the décor succeeds in preserving old-world charm and understated elegance---with its Italian tiled floors and rotating local artwork---despite a generally sleek...
Casually upscale and stylish authentic with rich and comforting family style nibbles. Quiet, understated room of grays and soft lighting has more taste than it does people. Elders who can't bear an electronic beat while supping with the know-how to avoid it. Eggplant Mecca stars homey Sicilian eats like pumpkin tortellini in butter sage sauce. We're still searching for Clubber Lang's to get our...
Though famed restaurateur Celestino Drago and his brothers have opened various new locations around town (each brother seems to have adopted an outpost, whether it be Westwood, Pasadena or Beverly Hills), we presume this flagship establishment will always be home for Celestino. Designed by the late, well-known Brent Saville, the décor succeeds in preserving Old World charm and understated...