Super Bowl: Basement Tavern, City Tavern, Rush Street & more

Basement Tavern: Sports fans can enjoy happy hour specials all night long at the Basement Tavern at the Victorian on Super Bowl Sunday. There will be $3 beers, $5 well drinks, $5 house red and white wines by the glass, and 50% off all bottles of wine and champagne. Hot dogs, hamburgers and other dishes will be complimentary with a two-drink minimum. Feeling indulgent? The tavern is also offering a Bottle and Bacon package: For $1,000, guests will receive a bottle of whiskey and bourbon and bacon-wrapped hot dogs for 10-20 friends. 2640 Main St., Santa Monica, (310) 392-4956.

City Tavern: This "new American tavern" is offering all-day happy hour in honor of the Super Bowl.  Spectators can sip on $10 craft beer growlers while munching on Super Bowl meatballs and pigs in a blanket made with Spanish chorizo. If you are going with a group, reserve your own table tap booth where you can pour your own beer throughout the game. 9739 Culver Blvd., Culver City, (310) 838-9739, www.citytavernculvercity.com.

Pink Taco: The Century City taco joint has 11 LED TVs and one jumbo projection screen for your Super Bowl viewing pleasure. The restaurant is serving crispy carnita tacos with salsa fresca and chipotle mayo, adobado chicken mini tortas, mini churros and more, all for less than $6 (or pick four for $22). 10250 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, (310) 789-1000, www.pinktaco.com.

Rock & Reilly's: Located on the Sunset Strip, this pub boasts more than 45 Irish whiskeys and 14 antique framed flat-screen TVs as well as a 120-inch projection screen. It will be serving Super Bowl favorites with an Irish twist including whiskey bingo wings, Irish nachos (made with potatoes, peppered bacon and Irish cheddar), wee burgers and corned beef sliders. If you are not a beer drinker, the bar will have its signature Irish whiskey flights available. 8911 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, (310) 360-1400, www.rnrpub.com.

Rush Street: This high-end sports bar is serving up gourmet snacks on Super Bowl Sunday. Diners will be able to try dishes such as warm pretzels with beer cheese fondue, avocado fries, lobster and shrimp egg rolls, and a trio of hummus. For those with a bigger appetite, the gastropub will be serving pizzas, like caramelized onion, fig, pancetta and goat cheese, along with burgers, sandwiches and salads. It will also have an extensive drink menu including team-themed specialty cocktails. 9546 Washington Blvd., Culver City, (310) 837-9546 www.rushstreetculvercity.com.

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Photo: Jeremy Back, assistant general manager of City Tavern. Credit: Gary Friedman/ Los Angeles Times

Haven Gastropub+Brewery to open in early December

Executive chef Greg Daniels, beverage director Wil Dee and brewmaster David Larsen are opening the second location of Haven Gastropub+Brewery in Old Town Pasadena (the other location is in Orange). 

The restaurant will have an on-site brewery that will feature small-batch seasonal offerings. The trio are anticipating an imperial stout, Bavarian-style hefeweizen and IPA. In addition, Haven Gastropub+Brewery will carry 100 different bottled beers from local, national and international breweries, 52 beers and wines on tap, including four cask ales. The bar will have an extensive selection, including uncommon spirits such as Hayman’s Old Tom Gin, Michter’s Straight Rye, and Carpano Antica Formula used in pre-prohibition-style cocktails.

The menu will showcase farmers markets specials, house-made charcuterie and freshly baked flatbreads. Included will be such dishes as a goose pastrami sandwich  with cole slaw, Russian dressing and housemade mustard on rye bread with seasonal pickled vegetables; grilled octopus with caramelized fennel and hearts of palm, yellow tomato confit, and citrus aioli; and a duo of quail, featuring pan-roasted quail and house-made quail sausage, with hen of the woods mushrooms, butternut squash puree and Black Mission fig jam.

Haven Gastropub+Brewery will serve lunch, dinner and a late-night menu consecutively from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. seven days a week.

Haven Gastropub+Brewery, 42 De Lacey Ave., Pasadena, www.havengastropub.com.

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Photo: Executive Chef Greg Daniels. Credit: James Hall

Boho to relocate to Hollywood & Highland

You may have noticed that Boho, Adolfo Suaya's ArcLight-adjacent gastropub, has been closed for about a month. That's right -- you can no longer conveniently gorge yourself on pizza, burgers and beer before taking in a movie.

That will change next month when Boho reopens, like a sequel, in the Hollywood & Highland complex -- in close proximity to Mann's theater. Spacecraft's Kristofer Keith will once again take charge of the interior design.

Wesley Pumphrey, former sous chef at the Bazaar by José Andrés, will be executive chef. The menu will stay the same but Pumphrey will add his own additions, including veal sweetbreads, pork and beans (bourbon-glazed pork belly with homemade baked beans) and strawberry shortcake with balsamic macerated berries and vanilla cream.

Boho, 6801 Hollywood Blvd. No. 411, L.A. (323) 465-8500; www.bohorestaurant.com.

-- Jessica Gelt

Photo: Fried oyster "Po Boy" sliders with gougère, tartar sauce, applewood bacon and arugula. Credit: Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times 

 

Sampler Platter: Pez, caviar, tortas and Tijuana cuisine

Can you catch mad cow from fish? Where can you eat in Tijuana if you're not a drunk weekender? Can mannequins commit indecency? These questions and more answered in today's roundup of food news.

• Pez Candy Inc. sues Pez museum for copyright infringement. Laughing Squid 
• Teenage Glutster revels in Tijuana cuisine: smoked marlin tacos, abalone chorizo sopes, apple-guava tart and more.
• The mascot for an Ohio BBQ restaurant can continue to wear her halter top. Dayton Daily News 
• Petrossian is revived: more than just caviar. Gourmet Pigs
• Whole Foods will submit its private label products to testing for genetically engineered organisms. New Mexico Business Weekly 
• Hudson House: $10-and-under gastropub in Redondo Beach. Caroline On Crack 
• Scientists worry about mad cow disease from farmed fish that are fed cow byproducts. Reuters
• LA.foodblogging visits Cook's Tortas in Monterey Park.
• Obama administration vows to toughen food safety standards. Wall Street Journal

--Elina Shatkin

Photo: Deviled eggs topped with caviar. Credit: Robert Lachman / Los Angeles Times