What 2 Kids Dreamed Up for Charity Brunch Menu

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AS PART OF its Friends Cook series, Canele Bistro, 3219 Glendale Blvd., turns the menu over to 2 young friends. A 6-year-old and an 8-year-old developed special dishes, drinks and menus, and will be on hand to meet, greet, serve, bus and cook for the one-time brunch, Saturday, Marcy 27, 10:00am to 3:00pm.

Sweets: $7.50

• Owen's berry bread pudding
• Housemade granola (add chocolate and bananas $2.50)
• Bowl of berries and banana

Savories: $10.50

• Violet's cheesy baked shells
• Eggs in a hole
• Soft scrambled eggs with herbed cream cheese
• Fried egg sandwich with braised leeks, bacon and romesco market soup

Sides: $4.50

• House cured or apple smoked bacon
• Pan roasted potatoes
• Market lettuces with crème frâiche
• Just eggs (soft scrambled, omelet, fried)
• Ginger scone

Toast: $2.50

• Toast and homemade jam (baguette, buckwheat or seeded pullman)

Sips:

• Owen's hot chocolate with whipped cream
• Violet's pink rhubarb lemonade
• Chado teas, LAMILL coffee, espresso, cappuccino, latte
• Mimosas
• Wine by the glass and bottle
• Tomato juice, orange juice
• San Pellegrino mineral water, limonata, aranciata

Saturday's brunch profits will be donated to the American Red Cross, as the 2 young chefs specified, to benefit relief efforts in Haiti. No reservations. First come, first served.

Swirling, Smelling, Slurping at Canele Bistro

IT'S NOT TOO late to plan to attend this rich and delicious "friends cook" event tonight at Canele Bistro, 3219 Glendale Blvd. No reservations required (or taken). Tonight the Renaissance personas behind Swirl Smell Slurp wine blog take over the kitchen with wine pairings from Vintage Wine Marketing.

• Frisée aux lardons (with Riesling, Vieilles Vignes, Lucas et Andre Rieffel)
• Steak frites (with Lussac St. Emilion, Chateau du Courlat 2005)
• Profiteroles (with Madeira, 15-year-old Bual, Henriques & Henriques)
• Prix fixe: $37 per person (plus $5 per wine course)

This menu is available one night only, Feb. 23, 5:30pm to 10:00pm. And rumor has it there will also be one-night-only accordion music in the joint. Ooh la la.

Yum! Oyster Night Returns to Canele Bistro

FRESH ON THE heels of last Sunday's appearance on ABC's Brothers & Sisters (about 34:30 into the video) neighborhood fave Canele Bistro brings back oyster night. From their email: "Maestro of the Mollusk Luc Chamberland is coming for the second annual Consider the Oyster feast and celebration! We'll be shucking, roasting, po'boying, and who-knows-what-else with those little gems." The deets:

• Monday, Jan. 18, 6:30pm
• Canele Bistro, 3219 Glendale Blvd.
• $70 by reservation; "includes wine and champagne, accompanying delectables and a little something sweet at the end"
• RSVP (323) 666-7133

They Can Talk, But Can They Cook?

STEVE AND MIKE from KFI 640 AM Talk Radio are cooking at Atwater Village's Canele bistro, 3219 Glendale Blvd., for the Friends Cook series, Tuesday Oct. 6, 5:00pm to 10:00pm. Their 3-course, $32 dinner:

• Braised artichoke on a fat toast with shaved pecorino
• Seared halibut with cherry tomatoes, cracked olives, capers and basil
• Apple and raisin crostata with ice cream

Every Canele Has Its Thorne

CHEF DAVID THORNE helms the menu tomorrow, Sept. 15, at Canele in Atwater Village. Part of the Friends Cook series, it's a 3-course dinner for $32:

• First: Watermelon and beet salad with feta and preserved meyer lemon
• Second: Seared duck breast with parsnip puree, cabbage and plums
• Third: Roasted figs with creme fraiche and condensed arabic coffee

Read all about the last Friends Cook event on Sept. 8.

'The Duo Dishes' Duo Dishes Tonight's Canele Menu

SURE IT'S last minute, but that's how friends are sometimes. Canele bistro continues its Friends Cook dinner series tonight, Sept. 8, 5:30pm to 10:00pm. Chrystal and Amir, the duo behind The Duo Dishes food blog, have a 3-course menu for $30 per person:

• Sweet Apple and Bacon Puffs with Pomegranate Glaze
• Tarragon Chicken and Grape Pot Pie
• Almond and Coconut Cream Fruit Cake

No reservations taken. Canele is 3219 Glendale Blvd., Atwater Village.

Tonight: Silverton, Pressman are Guest Chefs at Canele

AS A PREVIEW of Grass Burger, their upcoming restaurant at the Farmers Market on Fairfax, Nancy Silverton (Pizzeria Mozza, Osteria Mozza) and Amy Pressman (Pasadena's Old Town Bakery) are guest chefs at Atwater Village's Canele, 3219 Glendale Blvd., tonight, August 25, 5:30pm to 10:30pm. No reservations. The 3-course, $36 prix fixe menu:

• Weiser Farms melon salad
• choice of Sonoma grass-fed beef cheeseburger or Sonoma grass-fed beef burger topped with fried egg and frisee
• fig-milk-chocolate-bourbon ice cream dessert

More from the LA Times.

Honey, You Had Me at Maker's Mark Reduction

NEXT TUESDAY, June 30, neighborhood bistro Canele, 3219 Glendale Blvd., will be buzzing with a 3-course prix fixe "Friends Cook in LA" dinner featuring Amy Seidenwurm of the Backwards Beekeepers. It's a honey of a $30 menu: Mixed green salad with roasted beets, gorgonzola, honey-roasted walnuts with a honey-champagne vinaigrette. Honey-glazed pork tenderloin with Maker's Mark reduction, corn cakes, buttered carrots Goat cheese and nectarine tart with raw honey drizzle, honey ice cream Don't get stung! Canele doesn't take reservations; so bee early.

Spend a Couple of Minutes in the Kitchen at Canele

NEW VIDEO about Atwater Village's quintessential neighborhood bistro Canele (3219 Glendale Blvd.) from the LA Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Weekend Promises to Be a Little Yummier

CHECK OUT neighborhood French fave Canele restaurant (3219 Glendale Blvd.) in the May 2009 edition of Bon Apetit magazine, an article about the top 10 brunch spots in the nation: "Along Atwater Village's main drag sits this tiny gem run by chef Corina Weibel and her partner, Jane Choi. The omelets (filled with tomato confit, goat cheese, mushrooms, or caramelized onions) are simple perfection." Canele serves brunch, first come first served, Saturdays and Sundays, 11:00am to 3:00pm.

Prix-Fixe Springtime at Canele in Atwater Village

NEIGHBORHOOD RESTAURANT Canele (3219 Glendale Blvd.) marks spring's arrival by adding 3 fixed-price meals to its usual menu of deliciousness: Tuesday: Caesar Salad, Ziti with Tuna & Tomato Sauce, Prunes with Mascarpone Wednesday: Butter Lettuce with Green Goddess Dressing, Meatloaf with Mashers & Carrots, Ice Cream Sundae Thursday: Fennel & Citrus Salad, Porcini Risotto with Mascarpone, Cantucci & Vin Santo Get all 3 courses for $22 plus beverage, tax, tip. We memorized Canele's regular menu, so we're looking forward to sampling the new springtime fare.

On Election Night, Eat Like the French

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FROM A RELIABLE source, the shes-krafty diary, come deets on Election Night haps at Canele, 3219 Glendale Blvd. Election Day Special Menu at Canele Romaine with blue cheese and cherry tomatoes Meatloaf or roast 1/2 chicken with mashers and vegetables Apple pie and ice cream $22 prix fixe (does not include beverage, tax, gratuity) This will be the entire menu Nov. 4, 2008, and Chef Corina promises live election coverage on a TV rented for the occasion.

See you in September, Fine Diners

EVERYONE'S FAVORITE reservationless restaurant, Canele in Atwater Village, is on vacation for 2 weeks. P.S. - To the know-it-all at the next table at brunch at Canele yesterday, maybe it's OK to generalize based on anecdotal observations. In a big, diverse place like Los Angeles (without the benefit of actual census data) maybe there's no other way.

Yes, Atwater Villagers Would Rather Not Call Ahead

TIME TO REVISIT Canele, Glendale Boulevard's finest local eatery, in this Metromix profile of Lot 1 chef Josef Centeno: We meet at Canele, a restaurant Centeno, 34, lists first among his favorites on the east side of town. It's a sliver of a space with exposed brick and ceilings high enough to prevent the onset of claustrophobia. The small dining room dictates a "no reservations" policy, a first-come, first-served axiom that favors the locals of Atwater Village - yet the Mediterranean-inflected cuisine draws foodists from all over the city. A neighborhood joint with excellent food everyone wants to try? We see the appeal.

Canele Started Serving Brunch This Weekend

AND OUR NEIGHBOR Miles really liked it. Can Canele ever miss? Stop by 3219 Glendale Blvd., or visit the restaurant's spiffy web site.

LA Foodies Still Heart Canele

THE COMPLETE RECIPE in tomorrow's edition of the LA Times: "At Canele in Atwater Village (3219 Glendale Blvd.), chef Corina Weibel serves a perfectly-seared snapper fillet ... It recently caught the attention of staff writer Amy Scattergood."

Not a Hand Fruit

FROM THE LA TIMES countdown to tomato time: "'When will tomatoes come so we can have that luscious, olivey tomato background?' moans Corina Weibel of Canele in Atwater Village. She's dying to pair wedges of assorted heirloom tomatoes, seasoned simply with herbs and shallots and tossed with torn croutons, with crispy-skinned seared snapper, drizzled with a little olive oil and lemon juice."

One Down, 98 To Go

EVEN BEFORE THE FIRST anniversary of its opening, neighborhood bistro Canele (3219 Glendale Blvd.) has earned a spot on Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential Restaurants for LA. Sayeth LA Weekly's Pulitzer Prize winner: "In Atwater Village, Canele can feel a lot like an ongoing dinner party that just happens to tolerate strangers at its tables.... The chef/owner is Corina Weibel, a Nancy Silverton protegee who also cooked for a while at Lucques, and she works the farmers-market-driven urban rustic side of new Los Angeles cooking... This is cooking worthy of the good china." The recognition comes on the heels of Sunday's Los Angeles Times love letter: "The most coveted seats at Canele in Atwater Village are at the large communal table in the front window. New parents are showing off their baby to an aunt or two at one end of the table, while a couple on a date is seated at the other end. The food comes - shrimp and avocado salad sparked with lime, cilantro and chile, dandelion salad in a piquant vinaigrette, herb-roasted rack of lamb, a simple omelet - any one of which may inspire someone at the table to order more of the same." Mrs. Newbie and I finally tried Canele last weekend - just drinks and dessert - and we must disagree with one point. The best table is the really bar, overlooking Canele's petite open kitchen. Ask for it. Watch how Corina and staff whisper their way through a plating emergency. Or an undercooked lamb. Or customers who irrationally refuse the restaurant's namesake, a two-bite caramelized confection, on their way out the door. For a drama-infused reality-show city like LA, that's essential. 99 Essential Restaurants: The Metropolitan Palate [LA Weekly] Map of the LA 99 [LA Weekly] Fresh [LA Times]

Atwater Chatter

NEWS FROM IN AND AROUND this funny little flat neighborhood along the Los Angeles River: Iron Yourself a New Shirt - "My pal Mike... opened up the coolest little shop in Atwater called Iron." [If the Birds Knew] Putting the Pee Back in Canele - "The first thing we heard when we were being seated put us off a bit - one of the waitresses announced, to no one in particular, and loudly, 'I GOTTA GO TAKE A PEE!'" [Atwater Village Is for Lovers] GrogMog Bar Review: The Roost - "This post was written while I was shitcanned. This review has been edited for brevity, but not for content." [Ogmog.com] SoyCafe Expanding Across River - "Viet's opening a new restaurant in Atwater Village in the fall. It will be much roomier. Don't worry, the original will stay open." [The Veggiefoodie] Needlessly Polite Memo to Best Buy - "Your Atwater Village Best Buy store... glibly suggested that it was my fault and that I should have handled my computer with more care." [Adventures and Ramblings of Nectar Queen]

The Great Glendale Takeover of 2007

FROM WHAT HAS BEEN hailed as the best restaurant mapping thingy ever, comes this breaking news. Urbanspoon maps show that former northeast Los Angeles neighborhood Atwater Village has been claimed in a hostile takeover by the adjacent city of Glendale. More than 80 years after the failed Tropico-LA-Glendale Mega-Merger, this new foodie invasion is leaving a suburban aftertaste in the mouths of Atwater Village residents. Asia Los Feliz, previously named for a neighborhood on the other side of Atwater Village, could be redubbed Asia Glendale, immediately losing cred with anyone under age 50 Tam O'Shanter Inn, formerly the 3rd most popular restaurant in Atwater Village, is now the 4th most popular restaurant in Glendale Canele, to maintain its media darling status, must now attempt to impress those hard-asses at the Glendale News Press I guess despite how the mayor of Los Angeles corrected him on the air, FOX11 reporter Rick Lozano was right all along.