Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Restaurant Review #148: Lucques, West Hollywood
Almonds, olives, butter and fleur de sel (an expensive French sea salt)
Few food lovers in LA haven't heard of Lucques, run by Suzanne Goin (recent winner of two James Beard awards--a massive honor in the culinary universe) and Caroline Styne. Lucques (pronounced "Luke") serves what I refer to as "upscale restaurant food." In Los Angeles, that often means Cal-Italian or in this case,
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