The Corner Butcher Shop Executive Chef Ricky Brewer
Executive Chef Ricky Brewer went from a kitchen nightmare to a kitchen fairy tale. In 2007, Brewer was the executive chef for Lela’s Restaurant in the heart of the Pomona Arts Colony. While the upscale restaurant featured an ambitious, eclectic menu, it lacked the financing, discipline and downtown foot traffic to survive, despite the best […]
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For a delightful lunch or evening of champagne and chandeliers, charcuterie and conversation, and chocolate bliss and café coziness, take a ride to Old Town Pasadena where you’ll find POP Champagne and Dessert Bar, La Verne’s home away from home. One of only four know champagne bars in the country, POP bubbled up from the […]
The Corner Butcher Shop in La Verne is not a supermarket. It’s a super market! Instead of miles of aisles of clangety-clang metal shopping carts rattling around corners, you have a homey, cheery 2700-square-foot shop dedicated to serving top quality meats and seafood, soups and salads, cheeses, boutique beers and wines, steak rubs and sauces, […]
Is this a great city or what? Where else can you find an Iranian masquerading as an Italian who practically invented Taco Tuesdays in La Verne, a wildly successful promotion since imitated by several local eateries? Not only that, he makes “Ultimate” sandwiches shaped like pizzas in five different sizes: personal, small, medium, large and extra […]
