The fragrance of rising bread and delicate pastries does not emanate from Hygge Bakery as it does from other establishments of this sort. Hygge (that’s hoo-geh) has no need to resort to such aromatic pretexts.
The clean, modern lines and high ceiling inside Hygge may assimilate it inconspicuously with the sleek residential towers in South Park.
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Downtown LA is the center of one of the largest metro revitalizations in the United States—are you missing out? The Dish Dash has got it all taken care of. Get the Dish on all of our Dashes around the city, and the Deals that we nab for you at each place. And trust us, because we’re led by two things: a passion for adventure, and an abiding love for food. Eat on.
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Mobs gathered at the tables, anticipating. We were screaming, shouting, performing like circus animals—all for a morsel smaller than our outreached hands. Was this ripped from history, a Depression-era image of food ration lines? Hardly. We paid $5 admission for this. Another key difference: we all had smiled plastered on our faces. That didn’t make the competition for food any less Darwinistic.
Welcome to the 1st 7th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational. Held last Saturday, April 25th in Los Angeles State Historic Park in Chinatown, this competition calls itself the “Grilled Cheese Sammich cooking competition.” And how exactly does a mere mortal like myself get to judge such a competition? It only took the hard work and perseverance…of an internet search. Don’t ask me how and the other hundreds of people found out about this niche of a cooking contest. Call it divine guidance.
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What comes to mind when you think of Downtown LA? Words like “grungy,” “poor,” and “ghettolicious” are common for USC students. But don’t we owe it to our alma mater and the community to break free from the dark cloud of the University of South Central? Luckily, we’ve got some venues that are helping us solve Downtown’s poor image—think LA Live, the new hub of dining and soon-to-be-hotel venues that surround the powerhouse of the Nokia Center. With a vision of Downtown as a place to take a leisurely stroll, the creators constructed a “Times Square of the West.” They even lobbied to repeal the “traffic-reducing” law forbidding taxis from being hailed on the sidewalk (which, one must admit, was not one of the smartest solutions to LA traffic).
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Attention Business Students! With finance jobs down the tube, odd jobs are receiving some more credibility—and an influx of job applicants. Disgruntled with your boss, freshly laid off, or just looking for extra dough? Check out these jobs, and see if your calling was just a little too odd to be listed on Monster.com.
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