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02/11/10
The weekend will be yours.
SHRIMP
Mardi Gras Menu at Dominick's
To properly commemorate New Orleans in all their Super Bowl-winning radiance, their native chef will be
slinging $5 gumbo, $6 jambalaya and $8 Eggplant Pirogues With Shrimp Sauce. Consider it a Cajun
touchdown.
- 411:
- Feb 13-16, 6pm-close, Dominick's and Little Dom's
TO THE STREETS
Los Angeles Street Food Festival
Oh boy. There is much to eat on Saturday, when you can find endless food trucks and street carts all in one
place—The
Grilled Cheese Truck,
The Sweets Truck and Chef Ludo Lefebvre's famed fried chicken are all present and accounted for.
- 411:
- Feb 13, 11am-5pm, $5 (includes drink ticket), LA Center Studios, 500 S Beaudry Ave
GET 'EM, TIGER
Chinese New Year at Philippe
It's the holiday you've been waiting all year for—no, not Valentine's Day. The Chinese New Year. Hit
the bar at Philippe, where the Crown of Wealth (butterflied shrimp with sweet-shrimp mousse and
crispy noodles) and Eye of the Tiger (sesame-crusted shrimp toast with quail egg yolk) are free in
celebration.
- 411:
- Feb 14, 3pm-midnight, at the bar at Philippe, 8284 Melrose Ave, 323-951-1100
IMBIBER-IN-CHIEF
How to Celebrate Presidents' Day
So we're now at president #44, which means the time has come for some $4.40 cocktails in honor of them all.
(Well, most.) At comme Ça, the Frost/Nixon reinvents the Last Word (gin, lime juice,
Chartreuse, maraschino), and the Kennedy is a Fidel-friendly Cuba libre.
- 411:
- Available Feb 15, comme Ça, 8479 Melrose Ave, 323-782-1104
BEADS
Mardi Gras at South
If on Tuesday you require the whole thing—beads, masks, $4 beer specials, forgetting your
name—then
South is your Mardi Gras bar of choice. Start displaying fake flu symptoms after lunch, so you can get
here by 4pm...and then sleep it off on Wednesday.
- 411:
- Feb 16, 4pm, South, 3001 Wilshire Blvd (at Stanford), 310-828-9988
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