NEWS
By Veronica Rocha, veronica.rocha@latimes.com | January 10, 2012
A 25-year-old man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to punching a gas station clerk after he allegedly stole sandwiches. Dana Hall was charged with one felony count of second-degree robbery in connection with the Jan. 4 incident at the Shell gas station in the 600 block of North Pacific Avenue, authorities said. A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge kept the bail amount for Hall at $50,000, said Shiara Dávila-Morales, spokeswoman for the county district attorney's office. The robbery occurred at about 9:13 p.m. when Hall reportedly walked into the gas station and began stuffing sandwiches into his pants, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Lisa Dupuy | December 30, 2011
I've been to the Rose Parade every year for as long as I can remember. Tradition has it that we all to go my in-law's home afterwards for our favorite meal of the year, including Honey's famous potato salad. But I can't invite all 700,000 or so spectators to the house, so here are some great eateries on and around the parade route, some Pasadena mainstays and some newly opened hotspots. A number of restaurants close down the day of the parade but many are worth checking out in the days before and after the big event.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Rebecca Bryant | September 30, 2011
Robert Downey Jr. stared at me all through my lunch. I was eating at Studio Café Magazzino, a tiny, home-spun café across from the massive Warner Bros. complex, enjoying the homemade soup and sandwiches, when I noticed that Sherlock Holmes himself was looking right through the window, his gigantic eyes boring out from a poster covering a beige stucco building corner. The view inside the café was less distracting. A distressed, white picket fence covers part of the counter and potted ivy spills over an old metal icebox and sink in one corner.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Stan Wawer | May 19, 2011
The Hot Spot Café & Pizzeria, from all appearances, is just that — a hot spot. The Glendale Police Department is a few steps away out the back door; City Hall is a stone’s throw away, and the courthouse is diagonally across the street. Next door, day workers ply their trade in front of Dunn-Edwards Paints. “Everything in here is great,” offered a day worker as he chowed down on a lunch of fried eggs, bacon, hash browns and white toast. It looked good. The eggs were cooked exactly the way I like them — fried and up. A police detective came in the back door and sat down at a table behind me. He’s a regular.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Lisa Dupuy | May 8, 2011
It's official. The future has finally arrived. Just like in "The Jetsons" cartoon, you can now push buttons on a computer and the meal of your choice slides out on a tray. OK, maybe not immediately and certainly not for free, but at the new Specialty's Café and Bakery on Brand Boulevard in Glendale, that's pretty much how it works. Questionable spelling aside, Specialty's is totally plugged in to the modern, techno-friendly way of doing things. In the middle of the restaurant, there is a bank of iPads at which you place your order.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Lisa Dupuy | February 4, 2011
Vegetable lovers rejoice! There’s a hidden gem of a cafe in Glendale that is armed with veggies and is not afraid to use them. The Basement Cafe is nothing fancy, but they serve good, home-cooked food with a lot of flavor at a reasonable price. Hunkered down in the basement of the architecturally iconic Hollywood Production Center on Brand, the aptly named eating establishment boasts few signs, so you have to go looking for it. It appears to have originally been designed as the commissary for the office building and still functions as such but is also open to the public.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Lisa Dupuy | May 29, 2010
F olks who work in the cluster of office buildings in the 400 block of North Brand Boulevard have something new to cheer about. Just outside their front door lies the Beyond the Stars Cafe, a small but mighty sandwich, salad and coffee spot with quality that is a notch above the ordinary. Perhaps you've seen the historic Beyond the Stars Palace. This supper-club-type theater can be rented for large social and business events. They also have the occasional public performance.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Phillip Hain | May 8, 2010
San Francisco Sub in Glendale might be the ?little sandwich shop that could.? Several factors during our visit indicated they are still working out the kinks but the signs are quite promising that they are moving in the right direction. The décor, ambience and layout of toppings are no different than any of the national sandwich chains but there?s a definite earnestness in their desire to please. They offer two sizes ($4.50 small and $6.50 large) for most of the sandwiches. They used to offer a size in between but that is now covered up on the menu board.
BUSINESS
By Zain Shauk | April 27, 2010
Executives at Glendale-based IHOP are hoping Americans’ love for two dessert and breakfast foods will make its latest product a hit: a stack of pancakes layered over cheesecake filling. The company on Monday debuted its new “five-layer pancake stackers,” a creation that includes a layer of “crust-less cheesecake” in between two pancakes topped with fruit and whipped cream. A regular combination comes with bacon, hash browns and two eggs and totals 1,250 calories, according to IHOP, which did not offer other nutritional details and did not have specifics for only a pancake stack.
BUSINESS
By Zain Shauk | March 31, 2010
Thousands of street-food lovers streamed into the Americana at Brand late Tuesday, with some waiting in line for hours to order Vietnamese baguette sandwiches or red velvet pancakes from trucks. Some sat on curbs or on the walls of the Americana water fountain eating tacos, sandwiches and other truck offerings, while others glanced at the long lines for the nine trucks at the Street Feast event and reconsidered. “There’s no way we’re even going to eat,” said Glendale resident Barbara Simon, who was roaming the shopping center in search of a short line.