Krug Dinner Tonight at XIV, Em’s Artist Café Serves Wild Animals in Culver City, MORE!

WEST HOLLYWOOD— Fancy yourself some shmancy Champagne? Tonight XIV hosts a five course Krug Prestige Cuvees dinner lead by Carl Heline from Krug Champagne. Dinner kicks off at 7:30PM, runs $195 a head, call the restaurant for a resy. [EaterWire]

CULVER CITY— The Feast reports that Em’s Artist Café opened two weeks ago on La Cienega near Washington. EC Normie White serves quite the exotic menu: "venison burgers, buffalo burgers and buffalo pastrami, alligator quesadillas and omelets, pheasant sausage and duck Cognac bacon." This is apparently where the wild things are. [The Feast]

WEST LA— The Blockbuster at Ohio and Bundy will reopen as an IHOP. [EaterWire]

TORRANCE— The Veggie Grill's newest eco-friendly eatery is now open in the Rolling Hills Plaza. [Toddrickallen]

BEVERLY HILLS— Marcel Vigneron departed bar210 (attached to The Beverly Hilton) last September, now LAW reports that the non-restaurant, rather Vegas-esque club has shuttered indefinitely. [EaterWire]