National Filet Mignon Day

Celebrate National Filet Mignon Day on Sunday, Aug. 13 at Mastro’s. Start with a classic martini with a dry ice cloud and choose from an 8-ounce petite filet, 12-ounce filet mignon, 12-ounce bone-in filet, 18-ounce bone-in filet, 16-ounce New York strip, 18-ounce bone-in Kansas City strip or 22-ounce bone-in ribeye. Signature sides include lobster mashed potatoes. Finish with Mastro’s famed butter cake. 246 N. Canon Drive, (310)888-8782; 18412 Pacific Coast Hwy, Malibu, (310)454-4357.

Lucques family-style barbecue

Wear a cowboy hat, denim, boots and a bandana to Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne’s 17th annual “All-American Summer Rib Fest” on Sunday, Aug. 13 from noon to 9 p.m. at Lucques. The dining room and patio will be bursting with bouquets of sunflowers and the classic sounds of Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Gram Parsons will be heard throughout the restaurant. Sit at a butcher-papered table with “wet-naps” for your hands, and roll up your sleeves for one of head barman Christiaan Röllich’s Cowboy Cocktails, Longhorn Lemonades or a “Beer in a Can.” Feast on slow-cooked St. Louis-style pork ribs, braised beef back ribs, spiced lamb spare ribs, “Too-Hot-To-Handle” chicken wings and sides. Sides such as coleslaw and baked beans, long-cooked collard greens, buttered corn-on-the-cob, tomato and watermelon salad, and grilled cornbread are offered. Finish with a warm peach cobbler with strawberries and buttermilk ice cream. The dinner is $55 per person, exclusive of beverages, tax and gratuity. Purchase advance tickets by calling the restaurant. 8474 Melrose Ave., (323)655-6277.

Culver City Summer Wednesday

Enjoy Culver City’s Centennial Summer Celebration on Wednesday, Aug. 16 from 5 to 9 p.m. Culinary stars will participate in the ticketed, outdoor tasting event, serving everything from pizza to poke, and sliders to souvlaki. Participanting restaurants include Akasha, AR Cucina, City Tavern, Kay ‘n Dave’s, LaRocco’s Pizzeria, Menchies, Novecento Pasta & Grill, Spinfish Poke House, The Culver Hotel and Ugo. Advance admission is $20; $25 at the door. Downtown Culver City is located just south of the Santa Monica (10) Freeway and east of the San Diego (405) Freeway, between the intersection of Culver and Washington Boulevard and Duquesne Avenue. downtownculvercity.com.

Summer DJ series at CUT Lounge

CUT Lounge by Wolfgang Puck, a Beverly Hills hot-spot for dining, drinking and people watching, is hosting a Friday night Summer DJ series from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. through the end of summer. Enjoy delicious bites from the Rough CUT menu in the lounge. Highlights include Alaskan king crab and the signature steak tartare. Creative cocktails such as a barrel-aged Negroni or a Santa Barbara Uni are available. 9500 Wilshire Blvd., (310)276-8500.

New Soul Hollywood restaurant and bar

Soul Hollywood, a new southern-style soul food restaurant, has opened on a prime corner just steps from Johnny Depp’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and The TCL Chinese Theatre. The sleek venue is a concept by chef Yealang Smith. Artist, former restaurant owner and celebrity executive chef Giulian Jones runs the kitchen. Signature small bites include smoked trout on toast, and sweet buttermilk cornbread with charred corn. The Garden section features jerk chicken Cobb salad. The restaurant also serves inventive flatbreads. Entrées include house-ground short rib brisket burgers, vegetarian beet burgers, deep dish pot pies, fried catfish, and choice ribeye steak and poached lobster tail. Featured sides are deep dish mac and cheese, burnt sweet potatoes, slow braised greens and black-eyed pea succotash. Finish with beignets, bread pudding and a flight of cookies and milk. Dinner service begins at 4 p.m.; the bar remains open until 2 a.m. 7046 Hollywood Blvd., (323)962-7685.

Little Dom’s new cocktail program

Located in the heart of Los Feliz, Little Dom’s has updated its look with new tabletops, an outdoor patio awning and retiled floors. Bartender Cameron Dodge-White developed a new beverage program with five classic cocktails and five specialty drinks that will rotate seasonally. A new extensive amaro program with 10 varieties ranging from light-bodied, sweet amaros to more bitter, heavy and herbal varieties are served in vintage glassware from the 1940s-1960s. The drinks complement pastry chef Ann Kirk’s desserts. Little Dom’s also features a California-focused beer list with Barley Forge’s The Patsy Coconut Rye Stout and Fort Point’s Westfalia Red Ale. Other beverages include Little Dom’s version of a Boulevardier, a bittersweet drink with whisky, sweet vermouth and Campari, and a Gibson made with Plymouth gin, Vermina vermouth and Little Dom’s house-pickled onion. The Moscow Mule is made less sweet with house-made ginger syrup from fresh ginger root instead of ginger beer, and the restaurant’s famous Penicillin is made with fresh ginger, clover honey, fresh squeezed lemon juice and scotch. 2128 Hillhurst Ave., (323)661–0055.

STK LA toasts to two years

Celebrate STK LA at the W Los Angeles’ second anniversary with a bottomless sangria brunch and happy hour at the Hideout by STK LA. The new poolside destination for dining and cocktails features elevated summer brunch fare such as STK and eggs, duck confit chilaquiles, short rib hash and smoked salmon flatbread. Happy hour meal specials include short rib grilled cheese with a tomato bisque shooter, and “Lil Macs.” Happy hour runs from 4 to 7 p.m., daily. Brunch is served on weekends from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 30 Hilgard Ave., (310)659-3535.

Afternoon tea at the Windows Lounge

Through Friday, Sept. 1, enjoy a mid-afternoon pick-me-up at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles during a traditional signature afternoon tea for $49, or a luxury afternoon tea for $69. The English-style tea service is from 2 to 5 p.m., with the last seating at 4 p.m. Both menus are offered daily starting with freshly brewed Rishi loose leaf teas. Rishi is a Sanskrit name meaning “one who is a seer, sage or seeker of truth.” Choose from Earl Gray, matcha or blueberry varieties. Guests receive honey and cranberry scones with Devonshire cream and lemon curd. Signature tea sandwiches include smoked salmon, egg salad and coronation chicken. Fruit tartlets, shortbread, lemon blueberry cake and chocolate eclairs are also served. The luxury service features a potato blini enhanced with Petrossian caviar, crème fraiche and chives, and lobster salad on a buckwheat blini with chives and lemon zest. The English cucumber sandwich is served on dark pumpernickel with yogurt raita. The luxury tea also includes lemon cake, colorful macarons, and chocolate-ganache and lemon meringue tartlets. Add a glass of sparkling Domaine Chandon to the signature tea for an additional $25, or a glass of Moët & Chandon for an additional $25 during a luxury tea service. 300 S. Doheny Drive, (310)860-4000.

Italian delights at Primo Italia

Chef Michelangelo Aliaga, of Primo Italia, is serving his favorite Italian summer dishes including lightly fried squash blossoms stuffed with homemade ricotta cheese. Aliaga uses caramelized sweet peaches and fresh burrata cheese in his Insalata di Pesche e Burrata, which also includes a touch of balsamic vinegar and olive oil imported from Italy. Heartier dishes include Strozzopreti a la Sugo di Manzo – hand rolled pasta tossed in a thick house-made beef tenderloin stock with a sprinkling of locally-sourced sweet peas and juicy cherry tomatoes. Seafood lovers will enjoy Aliaga’s Bigoli all’astice, a Venetian-style rustic spaghetti made with duck egg and tossed with Maine lobster, cherry tomatoes, and basil and saffron tomato sauce. Gelato is made daily in assorted flavors such as chocolate and coffee. Dinner is served from 5 to 11 p.m.; Sunday brunch is from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. 24590 Hawthorne Blvd., (310)378-4288.

CHAYA Downtown Summer Festival

CHAYA Downtown’s “Summer Festival” runs through Thursday, Aug. 31. Enjoy a lantern-covered Japanese beer garden on the CHAYA patio with a cold Sapporo, sparkling sake, rare Japanese whisky or CHAYA Downtown’s special house-made sangria. CHAYA Downtown is also serving yuzu and cherry blossom summer sorbet cocktails. Executive chef Joji Inoue is firing up the yakitori grill and serving chicken, tsukune, and shisito and mushroom yakitori skewers for $2.50 each. Inoue is also preparing his tako tacos with grilled octopus, Asian slaw and wasabi miso for $4; fried noodles made with pork belly, cabbage and pickled ginger for $6; grilled squid with chili-miso dipping sauce for $12; and grilled corn on the cob with sweet soy glaze for $4. Finish with a choice of three sweet crepes flavored with matcha and azuki beans, Nutella and strawberry, or banana crème for $7 each. The festival is held Monday through Friday from 4 p.m. to closing. 525 S. Flower St., (213)236-9577, thechaya.com.