For a taste of Spain via L.A., chef Sergio Perera, who worked at San Sebastian's Arzak in Spain, as well as at Jean-Georges and Ludobites, pops-up at Echo Park's Cortez starting tonight and tomorrow.

It's sunny out, which means one thing: sno-balls at the Deli at Little Dom's. Starting today, the Los Feliz deli will have the finely shaved ice treat in raspberry, blueberry, coconut cream and almond cream, with housemade syrups and fresh fruit for toppings.

Sure, it's Grilled Cheese Month, but apparently it's also Pretzel Month, which is a big deal at Tom Bergin's. Throughout the entire month get one of the famous soft pretzels paired with three seven-ounce beers for $9.

Congratulations. You made it through a long day of whiskey (maybe sometimes even colored green) yesterday, and now you're probably at work. The only thing that will make what is probably one of the longest days of your life easier -- hair of the dog.

It's Beerfest tonight at Short Order with local brews by the glass or flight from Enegren and El Segundo, plus a special tasting menu to go along with them courtesy SO chef Christian Page.

Walter el Nagar's roving Barbershop Ristorante Italiano checked out of the new A.O.C. space for Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne to finally move in, but now he's landing back at the former A.O.C. space on West Third.

As if the lines at Daikokuya weren't long enough, today through Friday the Little Tokyo ramen shop will have the namesake porky ramen (Daikoku) for only $5 to celebrate its 11th anniversary.

STK has debuted a new three-course menu on Sunday through Wednesday night, with things like market salads, chicken liver mousse, marinated skirt steak, filet mignon and your choice of dessert for $50.

Celebrate Mexican Constitution Day at La Cuevita, 1933 Group's Highland Park hideaway. There will be DJs all night plus $5 margaritas, free tacos and $6 Mexican Flag Shooters. Did we mention free tacos?

Now that all of the holiday parties are officially over, it's time for the Spare Room at the Roosevelt Hotel to get back to its tournament series. In addition to the bowling league, there are a series tournies in the gaming lounge.

Someone had to pick up the slack after Campanile closed and there was no longer grilled cheese Thursdays. Taste on Melrose has stepped up to the challenge, now serving a special grilled cheese menu every Tuesday.

In addition to the regular menu, starting tonight and every Monday, Cooks County offers three-course comfort food menus for only $25.

There are a couple of weeks before DineLA's restaurant week begins, but participating restaurants in Beverly Hills are currently celebrating California Restaurant Week now through January 13.

Whether you celebrate Meatless Mondays or not, tonight get a special three-course menu based on local author Joseph Shuldiner's Pure Vegan cookbook at Mohawk Bend tonight.

Tis the season... of Best Of lists. Never to shy away from the holiday spirit, I am very pleased to present Unemployed Eater's very own enumeration.

Did you not get your latke quotient filled this week? This is the last night to get Suzanne Tracht's special latkes at Jar.

Just as white truffle season winds down, starting this week, all three Chaya restaurants will offer a Winter Truffle Affair to celebrate the seasonal Perigord winter black truffle.

The BevMo Holiday Beerfest happens at Golden Road Brewery Saturday. Forty five dollars gets you unlimited samples of holiday beers from from breweries like Ass Kisser, Big Hurt, Chimay, Hanger 24, Rogue, The Brewery, and more.

In Sandy Relief news, eat the yellowtail carpaccio and drink the Fusion Shot at Koi throughout the month, and 100 percent of the proceeds will go to the American Red Cross for Sandy response via the restaurant's charitable foundation, Just a Little.

The little Echo Park beer store that could is now open seven days a week. You can now sit and sip any number of craft brews at Sunset Beer Company on Monday nights, whether it's something seasonal and local from the tap or bottled from the retail side.

Two Jasons, one kitchen. Tonight Jason Neroni welcomes Portland chef Jason French (Ned Ludd) for a special prix fixe menu at Superba Snack Bar.

One of North Hollywood's newest, Bow & Truss, launched its new lunch menu last week. Now you can get mid-day Latin-inspired dishes like grilled sea bass tacos with carrot slaw and open-faced bocadillos with pulled chicken or cheesy jamon.

Suzanne Tracht welcomes fall with a menu of new dishes every Monday at Jar, each showcasing a single ingredient. Tonight it's all about duck -- duck sausage, roasted duck breast with pears and masala, and sticky toffee pudding (no duck).

Kick off the week with Reisetbauer brandy and chef Bernhard Mairinger's Austrian cuisine at BierBeisl tonight. There's an eight-course menu with booze pairings, things like chicken liver mousse with rowanberry schnapps.

Jet Tila's going back to his Pan-Asian roots tonight at The Charleston, where you can get a prix-fixe menu of panang chicken, five-spice pork belly buns, drunken noodles and Thai papaya salad paired with the restaurant's new cocktails.