Fajita Burrito from Chipotle
Okay, the Diva does eat at Chipotle once in awhile. In fact the last time were in New York staying at the Palace Hotel, we walked down the street up and picked up some Mexican food to go and ate it in our suite with some wine and beer (the former for the Diva). We had been eating out a lot and it was just so cool to take out food into a lavish suite.
Anyhow the fast food chain that dishes out some darn good south of the border fare is having a Super Bowl special I thought I’d pass on, here goes:
Chipotle Mexican Grill will be serving its customers burritos for half the price and none of the ad spend. Through its upcoming February 5 promotion, “The Super Big Internationally Televised Professional Football Bowl Game Half Price Party in a Box,” Chipotle is offering a half-price deal for those who use the Burritos by the Box ordering option found on www.Chipotle.com on Sunday, February 5, 2012.
Chipotle is famous for its irreverent style and genuine interaction with customers to build loyalty. Using its social media channels, website, and in-store posters that allude to the nation’s largest sporting event but do not name it, Chipotle is encouraging customers to make it a party by ordering six or more burritos using the Burritos by the Box order form, all the while end-running the advertising hoopla that has become such a big part of pro football’s biggest game.
“Chipotle has never been one to follow the crowd when it comes to the food we serve or the way we market our restaurants,” said Chris Arnold, communications director at Chipotle. “We’re more interested in making great tasting food from the best ingredients we can find in a way that is affordable and accessible to everyone.”
To participate in the “The Super Big Internationally Televised Professional Football Bowl Game Half Price Party in a Box” promotion, Chipotle customers can log onto www.Chipotle.com and download a Burritos by the Box order form from the nearest Chipotle location. The order form allows customers to identify how many chicken, steak, carnitas, barbacoa or vegetarian burritos they would like to order. The burritos come packed in a box with handles for easy transportation, along with sides of sour cream, chips, medium tomatillo-green chili salsa and freshly made guacamole.
This offer is only available Sunday, February 5, 2012 on orders of six burritos or more. For orders of 50 burritos or more, please allow at least 24 hours notice prior to pick up. The maximum order accepted is 100 burritos.
About Chipotle
Steve Ells, founder, chairman and co-CEO, started Chipotle with the idea that food served fast did not have to be a typical fast food experience. Today, Chipotle continues to offer a focused menu of burritos, tacos, burrito bowls (a burrito without the tortilla) and salads made from fresh, high-quality raw ingredients, prepared using classic cooking methods and served in a distinctive atmosphere. Through our vision of Food With Integrity, Chipotle is seeking better food from using ingredients that are not only fresh, but that—where possible—are sustainably grown and naturally raised with respect for the animals, the land, and the farmers who produce the food. A similarly focused people culture, with an emphasis on identifying and empowering top performing employees, enables us to develop future leaders from within. Chipotle opened with a single restaurant in 1993 and currently operates more than 1,100 restaurants. For more information, visit Chipotle.com.
The vegan fare is fantastic. The artistic ambiance brings out your inner muse at this semi-funk cafe on Santa Monic Blvd. in Hollywood where your Dining Diva dined last night with Richard, of course.
Hey your dining diva wants to thank all the Movin 93.9 FM listeners who visited my blog from the link on Movin 93.9 FM’s web page– 
Not only is the Hotel Bel-Air– my favorite hotel/restaurant –dishing out an awesome New Year’s Eve menu they’re serving my favorite bubbly, Dom Ruinart, which your Dining Diva finds superior to Dom Perignon. If you haven’t made plans you might want to consider celebrating in style at this chic, celebrity magnet. Who knows you just might spot a star or two. R.J. Wagner and his gorgeous wife Jill St. John are regulars, but so are some of the younger crowd. The Terrace and the Dining Room look so festive dressed up with Holiday decor. Blazing fireplaces enhance the mood (In winter I always book the table by the outdoor fireplace, so warm and cozy).
The attentive wait staff –many of whom have been with hotel for years) combined with diva-liscious food, a serene, secluded, sanctuary-like environment and you have all the fixing for an especially romantic evening to ring in the New Year and toss out the old–which most of us can’t do soon enough. The evening begins with a hampagne reception and live entertainment and moves along to dinner at 9 and dancing from 10 PM to 1 AM. And if you want to really keep the festivities going, head back over for New Year’s Day brunch, accompanied by the music of harpist Julia Cunningham, served from 11 AM to 2:30 PM, bound to be your best and first morning meal of 2009.
an usual after dinner drink or recipe enhancement, that’s smooth, zingy and packs a nice wallop. $29.99.-an usual after dinner drink or recipe enhancement, that’s smooth, zingy and packs a nice wallop. $29.99.
fantastic dinner at a new place in WeHo called RH at Andaz (Andaz is the spiffy, remodeled Hyatt on Sunset) and RH is Chef Sebastien Archambault’s innovative, neighborhood eatery. The handsome, modula style , high design room provides the perfect stage for this master chef, with its open kitchen and tables situated for seeing and being seen.
departed Movin 93.9 FM on April 14 for new digital horizons at 
Espanol, she too has left those airwaves. In the meantime check out Dees on the new web site and at 
Il Tiramisu Ristorante & Bar 
with a tiny bar and an open kitchen viewable when you walk by on the way to the restrooms. The place was filled with young and old all obviously enjoying themselves.
It’s Henry’s Hat in Studio City, California,
The Diva’s darling shows off his new boot at Henry’s Hat. 
The Dining Diva joined friends for dinner at Tavern, a new kid on the Brentwood block San Vicente exquisitely carved from the age old Hamburger Hamlet. The scene was eclectic and electric, lots of locals and out of area types noticeably enjoying the California/American pseudo fusion fare created by Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne who also run the popular Lucques and A.O.C. Goin co-owns the Hungry Cat with her husband, David Lentz. Anyhow they did wonders with the place which features an atrium-like indoor patio with comfy booths and tables…but…
Chef Guerreo is also responsible for Max, Oinkster, and Senor Fred in the San Fernando Valley.
especially good ones–I’m not talking expensive, just big nosed, bursting bouquet, rich, ripe varieties that make my taste buds sing. That’s why I’m wild about Wally’s– the best wine and spirits shop in Los Angeles to learn about, taste and fine fine wines. 
The Diningdiva at the door of Kabuki, Hollywood, didn’t know she was in for such a treat…
There’s a lively bar, cozy booths, tables and an efficient wait staff (our waitress was wonderful). Kabuki Hollywood, part of a group of Japanese restaurants sprinkled throughout Southern California, Arizona and Nevada, is located on Vine Street smack in the heart of Hollywood.
(My beef and chicken hibachi)
that was tangy and tasty. I love this dish and have often had it at a restaurant in Hawaii where I knew the chef so well he had it on our table the minute we arrived. Well Kabuki’s version was nearly as good with just the right spice and perfect rice, a little crunchy not hard and not mushy. I also order seaweed salads often and we had it here and man was it good. So was my beef and chicken Habachi and Richard’s tender, juicy cod—both couldn’t be better. We gave into the tempting dessert menu and had thee New York Cheesecake,
okay pretty incongruous, but it was delicious and so was Richard’s Hazelnut Craquant cake. Our waitress was right on her game, the experience was comfortable, more than satisfying and very reasonably priced with entrees no higher than $17.95, desserts $4.95 to $6.95 and fair prices for appetizers etc.
perfect, light, just sweet enough, and Richard 
went with the Chocolate Mousse, joie de vivre.
and ended with a platter of dreamy cookies and an apple caramel upside down cake. You have until Friday Oct. 16, 2009 to eat at Spago for less–or at any of the other 250 participating DineLA Restaurant Week restaurants–check it out at: 
cooked to perfection on a bed of tasty rice, for Richard, an outstanding flank steak
and the grand finale a dessert buffet.
We had to get up, but it felt good to stand.
(The chocolate cake was divine, but so were the cookies, carrot cake, cheese cake and all the other savories of which there were too many to sample).
(Here I am at Sunday Brunch at the Belvedere Restaurant at the Peninsula Beverly Hills Hotel. Okay it’s $69 a person but it’s still a deal considering unlimited French champagne, a multi-course sit down meal and all you can eat dessert buffet in an ultra chic setting. Not to mention a menu created by super executive chef James Overbaugh.
What a scene at this hip WeHo spot with drinkers swarming the elegant bar and couples, groups, and assorted friends seated on the terrace (the place to be seen) and in side at the elegant tables.
That’s Chris (l) and Richard (my husband),
Your Dining Diva 
(That’s moi enjoying the meal)
The Dining Diva is as fussy about coffee as she is food, actually even more so.
We ordered Rodney Strong by the glass.
