The immense L.A. Live entertainment complex is largely responsible for this comeback, but the studiously vintage bars and imaginative restaurants that seem to open every other day are also part of the revival.
Must-have The vegetarian options are notably imaginative – when a restaurant goes to the trouble of pulling out the stops on the veggie front, you know everything else is going to be good, too.
To the Editor: Regarding "J.F.K. Becoming a Bit Friendlier" (Practical Traveler, June 17): An imaginative choice of restaurants?
Drop down for dinner and nip into the restaurant for imaginative seasonal dishes.
7 30 p.m. 7. Vibrant Flavors At Black-Eyed Susans (10 India Street, 508-325-0308) Susan Handy and Jeff Worster have created an open-kitchen restaurant with imaginative food at reasonable prices.
The original building was destroyed in the war, but now there are two locations in Charlottenburg and Mitte serving the restaurant's imaginative German-Austrian fare.
Barcelona's food culture is constantly evolving: tapas joints are now gastro bars; bistronomías (bistro-style restaurants) offer imaginative cooking at affordable prices; and Mediterrasians (which blend Mediterranean and Asian food) add exotic flavours.
Mr. Tourondel was praised for the restaurant's light, imaginative menu including its signature eggy Gruyère-topped Gruyère-toppedhis soft touch in the kitchen compopoversd the restandant's low-testosterone décor and its aesthisic of fine dining without excesofte formalitouch
At the top is Fearing's (2121 McKinney Avenue; 214-922-4848; www.fearingsrestaurant.casuala casual but chic restaurant that serves imaginative Southwest-rooted cuisine at the Ritz-Carlton.
Another was Claude Bosi's Hibiscus, also in Ludlow before he moved it up to London, as imaginative and skilled as any restaurant in the country.
