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The Bossa Nova Restaurants - Los Angeles

Photography by Joshua Targownik

So I am not only a chef but I also love great food and there is not to many places you can lick your figers too when you eat great food. 15 years after their first restaurant open, the food at Bossa Nova restaurants chain is still amazing; still very tasting and great.

There are now 4 Bossa Nova restaurants and the 5th is on its way. Each restaurant is unique by there architecture and ambiance. My love affair with this wonderful food started when the flag ship on Robertson Blvd in the city of West Hollywood opened. I have met the two owners Aurelio and Francisco right when they have finished to building there wooden tables. Than I brought all my friends and we became a first group of supporters. To thank me they have created dessert plate on my name YORAM SPECIAL which became a hit on the menu. To this day we are still really excited each time we eat there.

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From the beginning William Paz is a part of the adventure and today he is the executive chef and together with chef owner Francisco he is one responsible of the menu. The ingredients are always fresh and food is cooked home made style. Big portion plates, autentic home made with the same consistency for all those years. Each time I eat there I sill get surprised.

The menu is huge and I only choose to mention a few items. Also in all Bossa Nova restaurant they have a pizza ovens, and the recipes are from Brazil. Robertson Blvd. location is the only one that does not have a pizza oven.

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On the Menu: Excelent choice of pastas with great variety of sauces. I love the Edgar Salad which is made of shrimps, lettuce, goat cheese and sun dried tomatoes, with a home made dressing. Most salads come with a choice of chicken or shrimps. Great lamb meet, stakes and fish, and a good selection of beer and wines. Amazing appetizers and desserts. On the wine list I picked the white Zinfandel and the Chardonnay Pino Noir by Close du bois, the collection of Merlots is very good too. Australian Ale brazilian beer and soft drinks are available too. You can get wines by the glass - average cost is between 7 to 12 dollars and the bottles are between 6 and 45 dollars.

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The flagship is Bossa Nova restaurant
685 robertson blvd.
tel +1 (310) 657-5070
also delivering from 11 am to 2 pm
public parking next door
all major cards accepted

Tommy Ray's Restaurant

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The latest jewel in the restaurants crown of Los Angeles is the TOMMY RAY'S restaurant, in Studio City, located on Ventura Blvd. with an amazing and beautiful patio. This most beautiful place with an amazing architectural design and a wonderful atmosphere is one of a kind. Excellent location and a great chef - you can not have a better combination.

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It is very hard for a chef to write about another chef but executive chef TONY ROMANO is something else: one of a kind very creative chefs that checks every table himself if the customers are happy with his food. Impeccable service, great staff, and a great wine collection on top of an amazing menu. The selected wine collection is from Cass Weineries south of the border collection and also wines from Chili and Argentine. The Hess Select Wines includes chardonnay and mountain cuvee The Bridalwood Wines includes syrah louis martini and Cabernet Sauvignon also a great selection of beers. A glass of wine is about $8-15. Once a month the restaurant organizes Wine Makers Dinner where food is paired with wine tasting, a real delight.

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On saturdays and sundays there is brunch and when weather is the patio is just great to seat. Manger Austin Corbet and Mr. Tommy Levasseur who is part owner are giving a great service to the guests. The Menu again is very rich and I tasted almost everything on the Menu and each dish is a world for itself. I really liked the lamb dish and the fish tacos and there is a good variety of fish. Great selection of salads and hors devuars every afternoon for the early bird hour. Starters are about $12, salads from $7 to $17, sandwiches $10 to $15 and main courses from $15 to $20.

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There is Valet Parking for $3.5 and also a public parking half a block east of the restaurant (or public parking on the street). Most of the Major Credit Cards are excepted. I predict that this restaurant is going to be very soon the hottest place in town it has anything one can wish. Catering also available.


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+ Tommy Ray's
12345 Ventura Blvd.
Studio City, CA 91604
reservation 818 506 2412.

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Vienna Cafe / Celebrity Chef Review

photos by: Joshua Targownik

The Vienna Cafe is located in the middle and hart of the most famous avenue in Los Angeles, Melrose ave. It has a side walk sitting and a beautiful patio and was voted the best breakfast and brunch place in L.A. for the last 14 yeas. The cafe has also a wonderful bakery where you can get assorted fresh basket of home made breads and rolls. On saturdays and sundays they have an amazing choices of breakfasts and people are standing in line to be seated and have a taste of the fresh breads and pastries and rolls from tthe Melrose Baking Company which is part of the caffe. My favorite breakfast dish is The Olive Nest which consist of poached eggs topped with tomatoes kalamata olives zuccini eggplants and bazil all sautéed fresh in olive oil and served on a fresh bread of your choice from the bakery which in my opinion as a chef is a great advantage to this place.

I also like their very famous dish The Vienna Benedict which consists of poached eggs black forest ham on a fresh home baked pretzel\bread served with the vienna special hash potatoes. The place has other very good dishes for breakfast such as fresh fruit bowl, fresh croissants filled with anything you crave for, also a big variety of salads and home made hamburgers served on a variety of tasty buns, fish of the day and very good desserts. You can get at the caffe blended drinks assorted ice teas and sodas . No alcohol at the moment. They deliver food and have a great catering department. I must mention general manager Camryn and the stuff. They are all doing and anazing job. Very good atmospheir all together a great place to be and have some delicious food.

+ Vienna Cafe, 7356 Melrose ave.
+ tel 1 (323) 651-3822 & bakery 1 (323) 651-3165
+ open 7 days a week - 8 am till 7pm
+ all major cards excepted
+ average cost of the meal, about 15 dollars per person
+ no vale parking (but you can easily park on street)

+ Celebrity Chef Official Site

Swingers Restaurant / Celebrity Chef Review

The Hollywood Swingers Restaurant is located in the heart of Hollywood right on Beverly Blvd. where some of the most famous and beautiful galeries and other famous restaurants are. Located with a Californian Style PATIO which is very nice very hip and Chic place.

This place is open early in the morning at 6:30 am, and at lunch time you can meet the young and beautiful Hollywood stars. The menu is classy all American style. Their hamburgers are one of best in town and were introduced on the tv show YOUR LA . Great milk shakes, wine and beer, also serving all day SOJU DRINKS open all 7 days of the week from 6:30 am till 4 am on suturdays and sundays they have a weekend brunch. You have to wait in line to get in but it is worth it. My favorite dishes are the grilled chicken sandwich, which consists of grilled chicken breast, bacon, cheese and avocado, served in a flafy bun and salad with your choice of dressing and french fries. I also love the tuna salad. Big choice of omlets an other breakfast is served all day long. Excelent salads and fruit salads and of course a great kid's menu, and as a chef i have to compliment the freshness of everything that is served. Everything is made on the spot to order. You will not be able to escape excellent desserts and cup cakes.

Very good atmospheir and the best JUKE BOX IN TOWN. Chef Alfredo Rodrigez and the manager Todd Barnes are putting their personal touch on the food and service, and the result is superb food and service. I have to mention also Stacy Cobb a vice president of comitted inc. who is over looking everything. In short a great a great place. Prices are reasonable nothing over 12 to 14 dollars.

No valet parking (you can park in the streets)
Restaurant delivers (7 days a week)
All major cards are accepted.

+ SWINGERS HOLLYWOOD
8020 Beverly blvd. (at Laural st.)
323 653 5858

+ SWINGERS SANTAT MONICA
802 Broadway blvd. in Santa Monica
310 393 9793

+ Celebrity Chef Official Site

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Specializing in those cultures and their culinary specialties, chef Ravid cooks a variety of recipes from these countries and a fusion of the same.

Celebrity Chef Yoram Ravid and his Client Mr. Dennis Tito

For the past few years chef Yoram Ravid is the private chef and special event chef for Mr. Dennis Tito, the business man who was the first civilian pioneer astronaut to fly with the Russian to space, and offers his expertise and passion to restaurants in the Los Angeles area, where he now resides.