Cheers, everybody,
Jonathan is back from Italy, for which we are all grateful — including him, or at least we hope he is. Instead of Italian 12-course meals, he's been eating pot-au-feu at Cassia, the new Santa Monica restaurant from Bryant Ng. Apparently it's pretty fantastic.
The rest of us have also been doing a lot of eating, or at least writing about eating. Jenn Harris considers a new organic Chinese place in Old Town Pasadena, as well as Panda Express, which has gone mobile. Free orange chicken! Elsewhere, Bon Appetit names four L.A. restaurants to its best restaurant list and our favorite coffee shop gets a makeover.