Does anyone else have a restaurant or restaurants they somehow find themselves returning to, even though they sort of suck? I do. At the moment, the place is Villa Italian on Sepulveda in Culver City (right near Cinema Bar, just...

Columbia has a good thing going in the opening of Cafe de Paris (across from the barren Palace 9 cinema). We went there the other night without a reservation, and they had nothing available except in the bar. I hope this is a...

Last Monday, we wanted to go to a particular movie which wasn’t playing locally. It was, however, playing at the Montgomery Cinema, in Skillman. Checking a map to determine exactly where Skillman was located, I discovered that...

I can’t believe nobody said Silence of the Lambs. Liver with fava beans, and a nice Chianti! I would have picked Cinema Paradiso and told of how the boy grew up, but never forgot his roots. Since he was Sicilian i would have...

Perhaps you might also want to check Foreign Cinema. It’s next door to Medjool, has an “only in San Francisco” atmosphere, and it has a small art gallery that can be used for a private party – might be...

I liken it to viewing Citizen Kane or Raiders of the Lost Ark, a so-called masterpiece of serious cinema versus escapist entertainment. Sometimes you’re in the mood for one, sometimes the other. But both can be satisfying...

I have to admit I’m not a huge fan of it, but the Shanghai dessert "Eight Treasure Rice". Candied fruits, sugar syrup, sticky rice, and a hell of a lot of pork fat make the dish. Sort of reminds me of the Chinese version of...

The United Artists cinemas are a chain, and the one on Westwood Boulevard, the UA Westwood, has closed. Had you noticed?

. I was going to get the duck but opted for a safe cantonese chow mein. Other than the squid, thick snotty glaze and limp veg, it was OK at best. my husband had the duck with 4 treasures - he was up visiting the bathroom all...

again: The Sucuk + Kaser cheese sandwich at Attillas in Arlington on Columbia Pike, a few doors from the Cinema and Draft House. Perfect, balanced, simple, delicious street food. Awesome. Another source of very good deli...

place that’s been making them since 1923 from the same recipe is the treasure above all. And it’s more likely to be found in the sticks than the city. The ethnic place that makes its food the way it’s made in...

had to add this foreign cinema san fran recent trip, awful shrimp tail. bits of shell stuck to the shrimp almost made me gag. but have had great shrimp tail too so i would leave that.

That’s it: right at the junction of Broadway and Hampshire Streets, with Cardinal Medeiros on one side and the Kendall Square Cinema on Binney St behind it. Also home to the Blue Room, Cambridge Brewing Co., Flat Top...

to a 1:00 matinee—only 2 men in the whole audience and about 85% over the age of 65 (boy, did I feel young—and I’m 48!) But clearly folks enjoyed the film. It’s not going to win awards and it won’t...

Food lover!! I work in film and relate this food question to a question I get asked about film all the time. Just because film is my professional field, it doesn’t mean that I always want to watch serious, profound, life...