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The Charleston in Santa Monica now open

With a menu created by chef Jet Tila

by Tiffany Wang
Taste Terminal
March 30, 2012

flat bread 250x163 The Charleston in Santa Monica now openOffering food, drink, and live entertainment, The Charleston in Santa Monica opened its doors last night. This nightlife venue boasts of a culinary program created by chef Jet Tila (as seen on Iron Chef America) and will host occasional pop-ups, an extensive bar program featuring wine, beer, and housemade specialty cocktails, and live entertainment from DJs, jazz, dueling pianos, hip hop acts, rock cover bands, and comedy and karaoke nights.

Chef Tila’s menu showcases his style of American fare with a twist as his menu offers shared plates such as Slow Roasted Short Rib Tacos with Shaved Brussels Sprouts and Korean Salsa and the Welsh Rarebit-Welsh Cheese Bread, Country Toast Smothered in Cheese Sauce then Broiled, his flatbreads menu include Bacon, Egg & Cheese and Sausage, Arugula and Fennel, a wide variety of salads and sides, and his selection of entrees including Five Spice Pork Belly Bao Buns and the Charleston Burger with Cheddar, Arugula, Onion Marmalade and Sun Dried Tomato Aioli. And to complementing the cuisine is the bar program, which features specialty cocktails such as the Ginger Kiss- Beefeater Gin, Lime Juice, Simple Syrup, Fresh Ginger & Habanero Chili, the Jet 75 – Gin, Simple Syrup, Lemon Juice and Brut Champagne, the Kaffir Lime Pie – Stoli Vodka, Stoli Vanilla Vodka, Lime Juice, Simple Syrup, Egg White & Kaffir Lime Garnish, and the Poison Rose – Beefeater Gin, Monin Rose Syrup, Lilet Rouge & Lemon Juice.

 

New Nightlife Venue The Charleston Opens in Santa Monica

by Connie K. Ho
Haute Living
March 29, 2012

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With the weekend coming up, get ready to check out new nightlife hotspot The Charleston in Santa Monica. It’s located on Wilshire Boulevard, close to other nightlife venues and a pit stop before the beach. A collaboration by entrepreneurs Mike Lee, Jack M.Y. Lee, and Trey Martin, The Charleston features live entertainment, savory dishes, and special cocktail mixes.

The live entertainment, particularly the dueling pianos, is one of the reasons to visit The Charleston. If that’s not your thing, it also promises to bring back 80’s cover bands, hip hop acts, as well as comedy and karaoke nights. It’s a great way to loosen up after a long week of work.

Not only is there live entertainment, but The Charleston offers an array of food and drink to sample. The new menu was created by Chef Jet Tila and, with stints on Iron Chef America and the Encore Resort in Las Vegas, he brings a multitude of experience to The Charleston. With an ambitious take on flavors, he aims to showcase a twist on American comfort food with a variety of shared plates. There are a number of mouth watering dishes, including the Charleston Burger that’s topped with cheddar, arugula, an onion marmalade sauce, and a sun dried tomato aioli spread. Save room for dessert, with beverages like the Kaffir Lime Pie that’s a mix of Stoli Vodka, Stoli Vanilla Vodka, lime juice, and a touch of simple syrup.

What to Eat at The Charleston, Grand-Open Tomorrow in Santa Monica

by Hadley Tomicki
Grub Street Los Angeles
March 28, 2012

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Already soft-open and serving over the last few weeks, Jet Tila grand-debuts The Charleston tomorrow night. This is the former Wazuzu chef and big-time bistronomics pumper’s reworking of the Angels space in Santa Monica into another nightlife venue that, like Angel’s before it, plans to have nightly live entertainment by bands. This includes that jerky eighties cover band that must have played everywhere else by now, as well as karaoke, comedy, and get this, dueling pianos (apparently, you can take the guy out of Vegas, but…well, you know). Anyway, what we’re really here for is the food and drink, and here Tila plans a selection of unique comfort eats and spruced-up cocktails, along with a series of pop-ups (an event with chef Evan Kleiman is already in the works we’re told). Come check the menu and bar.

The interior exhales the same vintage supper club cool as its predecessor, with a bar wrapped in kinky white leather (we’re imagining this, but like, at a bar), red booths, and a central portrait of Josephine Baker (please be this one).

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The menu features Tila’s take on comfort eats and will include tacos with slow-roasted short ribs and shaved brussels sprouts, fried chicken wings in a sweet chili sriracha, flatbreads of various designs, Welsh rarebit, and five-spice pork belly bao.

Tila will not, as far as we can tell, take Kaya toast back from Susan Feniger. Nor will he introduce a bar program called Tila’s Tequila. Instead, the spot offers beer, wine, and craft cocktails like a vodka-soaked “Kaffir Lime Pie” and a “Jet 75.”

See The Charleston’s full drinking and dining menus.

A step back in time, via an Iron Chef vet

Thrillist
March 26, 2012

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Grand opening Thurs in Santa Monica, The Charleston is a ’30s-era supperclub-cum-sippery in Santa Monica run by former Iron Chef challenger & lauded restauranteur Jet Tila, whose decked out the old Angel’s space in decade-appropriate beaded chandeliers, a studded, white-leather bar, and plush, red booths, which’re probably the first place to look for left-behind dead presidents.

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The food will work in two ways: they’ll do popup dinners by famous chefs like Angeli Caffe exec/KCRW “Good Food” host Evan Kleinman, as well as a there-all-the-timemenu w/ upscale-y bar goodness like short rib tacos w/ shaved Brussels sprouts & Korean salsa; sausage, arugula, and fennel flatbread; and grilled salmon w/ roasted tomatoes and chickpeas, ironically served by a second chick with a cup. Drinkiness leans classic, w/ specialties helped along by a master ‘tail-mixer (who’s developed booze programs at Vegas’ Bellagio, NY’s Po, and SF’s Starlight Room): there’s the Minted Mule (vodka, lime, ginger beer, mint sprig), the namesake Charleston (whiskey, green chartreuse, Dom Benedictine, bitters), and the gin-fronting Poison Rose, which’s really what Leo should’ve done if he wanted a place on that life raft.
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They’re also going to have tons of entertainment going on, from ’80s cover bands, to burlesque, to dueling pianos, to karaoke — which, like John Wilkes, you’ll probably straight murder.

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Bad Singers ACCEPTABLE and ENCOURAGED! Bad Songs UNACCEPTABLE!!! You can expect to hear DUB STEP…

You can expect to see Hip Participating! This isn’t American Idol, No one will get a record contract from singing here, so die hard karaokers RELAX…

We Just Want to GET DUNK and have a good time and listen to some GOOD MUSIC!

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