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In ShortMelissa Ritchie's Eastside boutique has been turning out chic goods for years--even before parking in this popular neighborhood required Jedi-like reflexes--but she keeps it current with cutting-edge lines for men and women, some of them local.

Posted by CadienClar on January 20, Brought to you by rateitall. Atmosphere can be found at N Vermont Ave The following is offered: Clothing Accessories. The entry is present with us since Sep 9, and was last updated on Nov 14, In Los Angeles there are other Clothing Accessories. An overview can be found here.

Posted on May 12, Brought to you by opendius. This location is in the Los Feliz neighborhood. Posted on May 08, Brought to you by merchantcircle. Went out for national cheeseburger day. The place was empty at pm except for two old guys smoking cigarettes at the front door.

Food was just okay. I got the cheeseburger obviously it smelled better than it tasted. The wine was good. The veggie burger my bf ordered was bland - even for a veggie burger. Service was slow. Over all the decor and the outdoor space was nice. I would be excited to go back if it changes ownership. In general, this place is great. Unfortunately, for that day there was a fix menu which we were not aware of when we made the reservation and had very limited options. The food was very good, but would have appreciated the notice.

This was our second visit and we'll become regulars. Good food, relaxed atmosphere, reasonable prices. A nice unpretentious neighborhood place. Comfortable mostly indoor outdoor ish seating with heaters on a cool night and a comfortable enough wine and beer bar on the inside. For West LA the price is very reasonable. The beer and wine selection is not vast but more than sufficient if like me you drink one glass at a time and never more than two at a sitting. We reached and the restaurant was being closed right before us, the person who was closing it did apologize and said the restaurant was dead so he is closing it early but what is the point of making a reservation if we reach there on time and you close it on us!!

We did our anniversary breakfast and dinner here. Personally, I enjoyed the breakfast a little more than dinner. We had an attentive waiter in the morning. In the evening, the supposed waitress would be joking around with the bar back a lot and not paying us much attention. Consequently, the bar back was very attentive to us and even have us complimentary champagne. Probably not the best venue for anniversary dinner.

Great for brunch. This is a great neighborhood find. The name says it all - the atmosphere is great! I was so impressed with the simple quality of the food here. There was something in the menu that appealed to all four members of our family My daughter is still talking about the risotto.

Only four tables on the salon. Average food. Average wine. Average service. Expensive for only average. Great ambiance! Once you get the heaters going, all good! Total hidden gem with delicious food! Very nice atmosphere! Very French! Great place for a quiet dinner! Loved the veggie burger as well as the steak! See you soon! It was a pretty limited menu. But everything we tried was great.

Live music which is nice, but pretty loud. However, I must tell you this place is a gem. We chose to sit in the outdoor patio, were greeted by Ray pretty sure that was his name -- was drinking so I apologize! Had live music there and really a good scene. Friendly staff and surprise live music was very pleasant.

Food was not exciting, missing flavor. Good food, well priced. Last January, Governor Kunin exhorted a joint session of the State Legislature to grapple with the issue of uncontrolled growth. She had already appointed a high-prestige commission to identify the problems and come up with an agenda for action.

The commission was headed by Douglas M. A Washington State native who had arrived only six months earlier to become dean of the Vermont Law School, Costle protested the honor. But the Governor insisted, so he accepted the commission chair.

The commission reported that Vermont's cherished, pastoral, small-town nature was in danger of being lost. The boom of the 80's had only accelerated things. Farms were being sold off at a record rate and subdivided as vacation retreats for rich out-of-staters ''gawddam flatlanders''. Condominium clusters were going up on the bosky slopes like the pods of an alien invasion force.

Local planning was spotty, state planning virtually nonexistent. The commission report also touted a number of ideas that might be termed ''high concepts,'' insofar as they both defined a problem and pointed to a solution.

One such concept, the Traditional Settlement Pattern, stood for life lived the old-fashioned New England village way, with houses and businesses concentrated at the center of town and the outskirts yielding to pleasant countryside - in other words, the kind of human habitat that scarcely exists anymore in a nation addicted to automobiles.

But there was evidence that, as far as native Vermonters were concerned, the idea was hopelessly sentimental. For example, the homefolks wanted commercial shopping strips. We're not going to change that. Davis, originally from Worcester, Mass. All he's had is land. But the land is, by ordinary standards, poor land for agriculture - a quarter inch of topsoil and feet of granite. It doesn't do you any good until you sell it.

And you can always sell it for a housing development or a shopping center. So I did. And what I discovered, curiously enough, was a traditional settlement pattern. At the base of the mountain, odd ''villas'' and ''luxury townhomes'' had been built around a wholly new central ''village.

Cars were provided for by a multilevel concrete parking garage. Now Stratton Village was, in effect, little more than an outdoor shopping mall for rich skiers. You could argue that the architecture was banal.

You could say that the whole project was bogus, perhaps even indecent, because the Vermonters who actually work at the village couldn't afford to live in it. But it met the state's rigorous environmental standards. And it was one of the few developments in Vermont that was built specifically to the scale of human beings rather than simply for the convenience of motorists.

You had to say that much for it. Here, the 's boom had brought an invasion of shops calling themselves ''factory outlets. In Manchester, the town fathers had strictly zoned against strip development on the main roads leading outside the town.

The odd result was that the factory-outlet shops were built strip-style within the town limits, each one with its own parking lagoon. An attempt was made to tone down the visual cacophony by banning internally lighted plastic signs, or for that matter any sign over 16 square feet. Hence, many of the town's commercial signs are made of wood, hand-carved and hand-painted, leading to what Leonard U. Wilson, chairman of the State Environmental Board, called ''a severe case of the cutesies.

This resulted in a white, boxy, flat-topped, pseudo-Colonial structure that could easily be mistaken for a drive-in bank. The company logo, meanwhile, has been restricted to a sedate little wooden sign out front, the world-renowned twin arches hand-leafed in gold. And what the have-nots increasingly have not is a place to live: affordable housing.

To the many affluent folk who dwell in the great sprawling urbs of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, even as far away as Los Angeles, a place in Vermont is a bargain, and in the 80's they have been buying real estate left and right, often bidding up desirable property way beyond the listed price, with disastrous effects for local working people.

That's why this has become a hot issue. To make matters worse, town governments often favor luxury vacation-house developments because they add to the local tax coffers without putting much strain on municipal services. A new middle-class home, on the other hand, tends to include children, who need schools, which cost money. And then the town is often asked to provide for roads, sewers and water service. It occupies a hilly site overlooking Lake Champlain with a magnificent view to the rugged Adirondacks, 14 miles across the water on the New York side.

Chittenden County surrounding Burlington adds another 90, people or so to the urban-suburban mix. It accounted for 34 percent of the state's total growth between and , and another 17 percent in the present decade. Burlington has prospered largely because the chairman of the board of the International Business Machines Corporation, Thomas J. Watson Jr. Today, the I. The city has five colleges, including the 11,student University of Vermont. It's a high-tech, high-style, highly educated town.

Burlington is almost universally discounted by Vermonters as ''separate'' and ''different'' from the rest of the state. The scale of its suburban sprawl is certainly a shock to the casual visitor.

Politically, it is also a far cry from the rock-ribbed Republicanism one associates with the Green Mountain State. In , the Socialist candidate for Mayor, Bernard Sanders, won the election by 10 votes, and he has been in office ever since. Bernie Sanders, 46, is a native of Brooklyn.

He has an earnest, doleful, somewhat shambling manner that reminds you of Alan Arkin, the actor. The walls of his spacious office in Burlington's Georgian-revival City Hall are hung with heroic posters of the valiant working folk and their American saint, Eugene V.

Sanders's discourse, in pungent Brooklynese, is studded with terms like ''millionaire corporations'' and ''radical solutions. In the rich yuppie pate that is Burlington in the 80's, Sanders is like an earthy truffle. A lot of people, especially among the younger crowd, consider him one of the most effective forces in the state at coming up with real solutions to real problems.

He told me: ''In this county and city there is a crisis in terms of affordable housing.