Irene Virbila: Eco-friendly eating at Akasha restaurant "Designer Alexis Readinger has done a wonderful job of letting the ceilings soar. She’s stripped the walls to bare brick, revealed glorious tall arched windows along the street, and hung huge parchment colored lights that float like mysterious sculptures high above the tables. You can read the menu and see your food, yet nothing glares or shines in your eye. The chairs are comfortable, the noise level is, shall we say, spirited but manageable..."

Alexis’ inimitable style and superb credentials have seen her prolific rise to eminence in the hospitality design
sphere. Here, she discusses the pressing restaurant trends she’s observing, LA’s restaurant scene, and the latest
projects from her firm, Preen.
Jonathan Gold: The Real McCoy: Hatfield's Revisited “…The new Hatfield's is likely to snap your neck backward: The dining room has been scrubbed to its former glory, and there is a gravity, a sense of occasion about Hatfield's that never quite existed before it was transplanted from its smallish quarters a half-mile west. …I visited the old Hatfield's at least half a dozen times, and it wasn't until they opened the new restaurant that I realized how well they cooked.












































