Plan Check Opens Friday on Fairfax; NYE at Milo & Olive

MID-CITY— Terry Heller and chef Ernesto Uchimura will open a second outlet of their successful gastropubby American comfort restaurant, Plan Check, this coming Friday with a menu similar to this. Matthew Biancaniello is behind drinks like a white truffle Negroni (this isn't his first truffle tango) and a beet-horseradish spiked Breeders Cup. Plan Check #3 is set to launch in spring 2014 at 1111 Wilshire. [EaterWire]

AROUND TOWN— Sycamore Kitchen, Huckleberry, Proof, Bread Lounge, Bouchon, Semi Sweet Bakery, fonuts, Figaro, Susina Bakery & Cafe, and Euro Pane Bakery & Cafe are the best bakeries in LA, according to LAist. [LAist]

SANTA MONICA— Getting ready for New Year's Eve? Most restaurants require early reservations and serve an overpriced prix fixe, but not Milo & Olive. The Wilshire cafe is not accepting resys or serving a prix fixe on NYE, rather chef Erin Eastland will premiere a bevy of new plates, offered in tandem to her regular selection of pizzas and seasonal plates. Other nightly specials: oysters on the half shell and oysters baked with creamed leeks, comp prosecco at midnight, and later hours until 1 a.m. [EaterWire]