FIRST LOOK: Comme Ca
David Myers has flung open the doors of Comme Ca, his traditional French brasserie.
FINALEMENT, David Myers has flung open the doors of Comme Ca, his traditional French brasserie a short sprint away from his first restaurant, West Hollywood’s Sona. He’s gone for a warmer look here, but in a palette of white, gray and black that rhymes with the original. Instead of the glacial calm of Sona, Comme Ca (French for “like that”) has a madcap energy. At the cheese counter in front, the cheese guru is busy assembling tastes of raw milk Langres, obscure chèvre and cave-aged Roquefort for diners who have gotten that far in their meal; while at the raw bar, head bent, a cook frantically opens oysters for a grand plateau des fruits de mer . In between are the raw bar’s no-reservations tables, filled with diners who have lucked into a spot and are celebrating with glasses of sparkling Vouvray or Champagne. Twenty wines are available by the glass from the 120 label list.
Michael Ovitz’s slick WeHo sushi spot is curiously sweet
Kumo’s forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies and heavy drizzle.
AFTER months of construction, Michael Ovitz, the former über-agent and Disney executive, has opened Kumo, a high-end sushi restaurant in the former Citrine (and before that, a number of other restaurants) space. Seems karma, the good kind, doesn’t lie thick on the ground at the Melrose Avenue address. But the neighborhood has certainly changed around, as rug and antique stores have given way to elegant boutiques. And so now, if you’re feeling peckish after picking out some ebony knitting needles at Knit Café, Kumo awaits your attention.
T&K Food Mart
Three tasty Vietnamese restaurants at one stop
THE cluster of shopping centers and maddening traffic along Bolsa Avenue — the main drag in Orange County’s Little Saigon — can feel claustrophobic. If you need to break Bolsa’s embrace, pull over and ask the nearest teenager for directions to “The Fast and the Furious” shopping center. He’ll direct you to the pagoda-style plaza that served as a cinematic bad-guy hideout. This is T&K Food Mart , your one-stop Vietnamese eating zone.
